I'm just loving the garden right now. It's full to the brim with pretty, romantic flowers. Lots of the perennials and shrubs I've planted in previous years are now growing together, which looks natural and also means less weeding! These days I love sitting outside under the umbrella with a book. I start off reading but usually end up looking around and making garden plans!
Clockwise from top left: gladioli nanus, Cecile Brunner rose, pink rippled carnation, Ash Wednesday rose, delphiniums, peace rose, rhodohypoxis, blue aquilegia, gladioli nanus, pink peony, hot pink geraniums, lavender. Middle: lavatera with a cloud of gypsophila in the background.
I'm also happy to report that I've joined the summer-flowering hellebore club! Only one of my plants (Pink Lady) is doing this, but the flowers are normal sized and just as lovely as in winter.
I'm linking up to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day at May Dreams Gardens. Who else has hellebores flowering in their garden right now?
Lovely blooms. I knew as soon as I saw the pictures that you were in the southern hemisphere. It warms me up on a cold wintry day just to look at the pictures of your blooms!
ReplyDeleteThanks Carol! I'm making the most of our summer temperatures. I wish I could bottle them to open up in the middle of winter!
DeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteI especially like the gladoli
Happy Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day!
Lea
Thanks Lea, Happy bloom day to you too :)
DeleteWhat envy I have....Happy Gbbd!
ReplyDeleteHehe... hopefully in a good way! I always think that when I see other people's gardens - it's inspiring but it does make you wish yours was a bit more! I've found my garden improves with age :)
DeleteHi, Ruth! I'm here from Keity, she wrote about your wonderful garden. It's really lovely!
ReplyDeleteI like gardening and embroidery as well.
Have a nice week!
Nadezda
Hi Nadezda, thanks for stopping by! I love embroidery as well as gardening but I do a lot more of gardening. One of these days I'd like to make an embroidery based on my garden design.
DeleteHi Ruth,
ReplyDeleteWe up here in the north part of the globe can only dream of all the flowers you are showing. About another six months and it might be some kind of reality of sitting under our umbrellas reading a book! It sounds like you are enjoying your summer.
xoxo Ingrid
Thanks Ingrid, yes I try to make the most of summer, I'd bottle it if I could to release on a dark cold winters day... I guess taking photos is the next best thing :)
DeleteHow lovely to see your summer flowering hellebore, welcome to the club, I don’t think we are many members so far!! I have tried my best to get hellebore growers here to give me some sort of explanation to why some of the hellebores flower in the middle of the summer, but haven’t got any good explanation yet. Only one of mine does it too, but have done it every summer for the last 7 years – and then again in the winter. Sadly it never sets seed, the flowers just shrivels up eventually, perhaps the right pollinators aren’t around in the summer heat? Congratulations on yours, hope it will repeat this every year from now on.
ReplyDeleteLoved your collection of summer flowers, we are mid winter here in London but my garden is full of flowers anyway and my spring bulbs and hellebores are on their way up.
Happy GBBD!
Thanks Helene, I hope mine flowers every year too even if I don't understand why! I also hope it can withstand aphids as they seem to attack it sometimes. Oh well it seems pretty hardy, and I'm just happy to be in the club :)
DeleteGlad you've got lots of winter flowers... I always enjoy the anticipation of the first spring bulbs :)