Category — Flowers

Any idea what this flower is?

Blue sky, Hellebores and a Bumblebee

Blooming Friday: March, week 1 – sun glorious sun

Blooming Friday: February week 4 – Hello Crocus

My secateurs come out – then in again

We need the sun – and that includes me

Blooming Friday: February, week 3 – Winter hanging basket

The corner where the tatty plants sit

Blooming Friday: February, week 2 – The Rock Garden

Blooming Friday: February, week 1 – more new blooms

Blooming Friday: January, week 5 – more signs of life

Blooming Friday: January, week 4 – Gold and Ice

Blooming Friday: January, week 3 – The first!

Blooming Friday: January, week 2 – Snow returns

Blooming Friday: December, week 3 – new bulbs

Blooming Friday: December, week 2 – Alpines at Wisley

Blooming Friday: December, week 1 – The Operatic Orchid

Full to the brim and getting ready for invaders

Blooming Friday: November, week 4 – Inside and Outside

What do these two have in common?

Grey skies. Please give me colour – but not a Heuchera

Blooming Friday: November, week 3 – Fruit in an unexpected place

Wind and a smile

Blooming Friday: November, week 2 – Give me shelter

Damp confusion and fashion

Blooming Friday: November, week 1 – in three pictures

Narcissus tazetta indoors – the easy peasy way

Blooming Friday: the end of October – never give in, never say die

Correa ‘Ivory Bells’ – choosing to flower from Autumn to Spring

The three stages of Ghislaine and pond slurping

A little colour to lift the spirits – if I can see it through the dust

Blooming Friday: October, week 2 – hello Autumn

Geranium twang and ping

Blooming Friday: October, week 1 – shorter days and cooler evenings

Blooming Friday: September, week 2 – the memory of summer

Pelargoniums on display

Relax and take it easy

Slightly interesting Iris becomes less interesting

Blooming Friday: August, week 3

Gardener stalks flower

Blooming Friday: August, week 2

Blooming Friday: Three contrasting flower shapes

Blooming Friday: Blue globes of perfection

A touch of the frillies

The only exotic bird in my garden

Some flowers fade but others keep on coming

Perhaps a ladder would help!

Read the instructions to avoid the crush (or know your onions)

Poppies popping up

Hardy Geraniums, the second wave comes into flower

My Ilex (Holly) is flowering, Mrs or Mr?

Double Fragrance

Well I haven’t bought a plant for ages

Come on you Hardy Geraniums, let’s start the show!

A cutting is a plant for free – if it takes!

Trillium not eaten, what a surprise!

How bright, shiny red ruins my moment of Zen like calm

Petunias, Verbena and Horseradish

A Single, A Double and A Wriggle

Spring delights and easy on the yellow

An Agave, general stupidity, ER procedures, and plastic surgery

Pond cleaning and pristine gardening accessories

Hellebores do synchronised swimming

A Spring mouthful

Has Spring sprung?

Snowdrop temptation

Hellebores slowly rise to greet the new year

Desert Island Plant Challenge

Go away I’m hibernating

Hot and Cold flowers

Plant of the moment – Chimonanthus praecox

Shrinking, twinkling and colour indoors

Desperate to see a flower, any flower!

Canna all wrapped up and ready for bed

Damp and droopy – and I’m watching you

Got to stop this humming, and a Squirrel update

Do you recognise this flower?

Brrrr…It’s chilly, but some plants keep clinging on to life

Trees, Leaves, Dahlias and Wisley

Why are you flowering now? It’s too early.

Some flowers ignore you and go their own way

The greenhouse is full and the plants can relax

Colchicums, two out of three

Do you know the name of these plants?

Late flowers have their special magic

Drip, drip, drip, squelch!

Rainy days, sun and taking water for granted

August flowers and the badger

Exotic July

Hampton Court – the show gardens

Hampton Court Flower Show: the plant stalls

The Eucalyptus is flowering

Give that blackbird a round of applause!

Queen Of The Night

The plant that never goes away, ever!

Seeds sown and where is that blue tit?

Some flowers look strange, and I’m taking a break.

Apologies for my blog going down

Greenfly, peppers and expensive failures

April flowers, carefully tweaked