At last the jasmine
is beginning to flower
late fragrance this year
Tag: Flowers
June Roses
Jude’s garden challenge theme this month is the ‘Essence of Summer’. At the weekend I went to Northernhay, a park in the centre of town that I hadn’t been to for years. i don’t even remember it being planted as abundantly, but the borders were a credit to the gardeners, and they made my heart sing, especially the roses.
Visit Jude for some fragrant lilies, to see what others are posting and perhaps to join in.
Overbecks Flora
I had way too many photos of flowers for Jo’s Monday Walk at Overbecks, so I thought a separate post would be a good idea. We can never have too many flowers can we?
Enjoy!
Late Spring Wildflowers
I think it’s the last weekend for Jude’s Wildflower theme and I found these four simple pretties while I was walking the dogs today, so I thought I’d share them.
You can join in and or see some other entries here!
Six Word Saturday
Perfumed blue haze under the wisteria
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku
Bokeh of daisies
like tiny white tinkerbells
through the rowan leaves
A Plant in the Post
What constitutes a wild flower? Among Jude’s definitions are ones that haven’t been planted. I totally admire the tenacity of plants that burst up between rocks, through tiny gaps in paving stones and I’ve even seen Buddleia growing roof on guttering, three floors up. So, wild Campanula does grow in the UK, but this is an escapee, a seed deposited by the wind perhaps, that managed to attach itself to a minute grain of earthy material to help it germinate. I think the spot it’s chosen, attached to a container for things going on a journey, is a perfect foil for its wild spirit, do you agree?
The theme for Jude’s Garden Challenge this month is wild flowers, why not join in?
https://smallbluegreenflowers.wordpress.com/2016/05/22/garden-photography-solomons-seal/
Very Wild Flowers
Jude invites us to share images of wild flowers for the month of May, and this one is about as wild as you can get. Luckily she doesn’t seem to say that they can’t be exotic, because this one was taken on the banks of Kinabatanga river in Borneo.
I don’t know what it is, it looks quite like a streptocarpus, but I think they originate in South Africa? Visit Jude to join her Garden Challenge, which has a different them each month.
Six Word Saturday
Three shades of funky, Granny’s Bonnets.
It must be spring
because it’s bluebell time!
Let’s have a peep.
I wonder if how big this blue carpet is.
How big? this big.
No, it’s even bigger and prettier up close.
Two years ago I posted bluebells at Blackbury camp, and I still think it’s the best place to see them, but here at Lanhydrock it’s a close second, what do you think?
Lucid Gypsy 