Tag: Flowers

Weekly Photo Challenge: Vibrant

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There are very few opportunities for capturing anything vibrant in a Devon January, but I did have a day off today and a trip to Sidmouth. This pretty window attracted my attention, perhaps a dainty kind of vibrant.

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On an autumn day out I spotted this on a building in Torbay.

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These colourful windows were inside Castle Drogo, a National Trust property in Drewsteignton on the edge of Dartmoor.

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I can’t miss flowers out when vibrant is the challenge can I? So here are two photos from Tavira, Portugal in September.

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Bougainvillea,

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and Lantana!

Are you joining the challenge this week? If you’re in the tropics or Australia, it should be easier to go and find something vibrant this weekend, have fun what ever you do!

 

Lazy Poet’s Thursday Haiku

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Waiting and longing

for the dappled hellebores

to do their spring waltz

Great minds really do think alike don’t they? This week my restless friend Jo not only had the same thoughts as I did, but she totally eclipsed me! She’s a sweetheart so I’ll forgive her! Pop over and read her hellebore haiku.

 

That Last Clematis . . .

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. . . of summer, Jude has reminded me.

Clematis are favourites of mine, they are such good value plants, flowering their little heads off. If you choose well you can have one flowering nearly every month of the year – well maybe 8 months? My neighbour makes me very happy because her Tangutica blooms abundantly over the fence near my bedroom window, thanks Katie! Even when the flowers are over, the seed heads will last for a couple of months. I took some photos earlier this evening, they will cheer me up on a winter day.

I hope their sunshine makes you smile!

Romantic Nymans

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I’m really glad I discovered Nymans last year, when I was in the south east of England, not somewhere I usually go unless I’m heading for Gatwick. It’s now right up there with my all time favourite gardens to visit. The house and garden, in the Sussex Weald, was built in the late 1800’s, by Ludwig Messel. He wanted to build a dream family home, and he created a stunning garden against the backdrop of the wooded surroundings. He collected unusual plants from around the world and made a romantic paradise.

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The long border in June


Some of the border beauties

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Heading for the fountain

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A refreshing sight

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Eyes to the sky

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Turn a corner

Cornus variety
Speckly cornus

Find your inner child in a magical woodland path

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Retrace  your steps

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The planting is beautiful everywhere you turn

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Flat topped pudding trees

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A box garden with crenellated hedges

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This stunning, but simple planting hides a secret for now. What could it be?

Blooming Knightshayes

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Yesterday afternoon I dodged the showers and went to Knightshayes, a National Trust property near Tiverton with my friend. I haven’t been for a couple of years, and even then I’ve only visited the walled kitchen garden. the formal garden is beautiful and apparently it has the only ‘garden in the wood’ in existence. For now though I’m just showing you a gallery of some of the plants I liked best. If you click you can see a bigger image.


Do you have a favourite? Enjoy.