Apr 13 2014

Getting Close

This Rhododendron is getting close to fully opening. Looks like as good show this year.

Apr 9 2014

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First Rhodie Flowers

First flowers opening on this Rhododendron ‘Blue Diamond’.

Mar 17 2014

Fuji Flowering

I missed the peak by a few days, but not too bad ever when it’s past its best.

Aug 16 2013

Flowers on my Birthday

Another year gone 😦 so I thought I’d add a flowering Spirea to brighten things up. Not one but two.

Jun 9 2013

Accent of the day – Lewisia

I have a lot of accent hitting their best at the moment, so I’m going to pop one or two up each day until I run out of plants or interest, whichever comes first 🙂

Lewisia

Jun 1 2013

Garden Shots

May 30 2013

Flowering Cotoneaster

I’ve had this Cotoneaster for 19 years and this year sees it going through a few changes in it’s pot, deadwood and also a few design changes with some new growth. More on that later in the year. For now I’m just enjoying the flowers. It flowers from the top down for some reason this this was the optimum time for the photo. Another few days and the ones at the top will be gone.

May 6 2013

Beach Accent

I picked up this little plant on a walk along the coast last year. I noticed it among the rocks and loved the flower. Initially I thought it would be too big for an accent but I noticed some in a garden lawn that had self seeded there. With the grass being cut every few weeks, the plant had adapted and was flowering tight to the grass level. This one needs to fill out to fill the pot but you can see from the flowers that it’ll make a nice accent next year.