Showing posts with label aquilegia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aquilegia. Show all posts

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Bursting into Life

I do love this time of year, a few sunny days and everything bursts into life.  Today I noticed that one of my Cedric Morris irises - Benton Deirdre had opened. If you're watching or visiting the Chelsea Flower Show next week look out for them as they are appearing there for the first time in many years.


All the aquilegias have opened this week too, mainly self sown and I tend to leave them where they chose to be unless they're really in the way.


and some more clematis have opened too, the one on the left is called Vino, the one on the right is some kind of montana that was here when I moved in.


Two roses have opened this week, the single chinensis rose 'Mutabilis'


and Abraham Darby.


There's still a lot of blue around as the ceanothus has opened (sadly I think it'll have to come out when it's finished flowering as it's leaning across the path and I have to scramble under it to get past)


But I'll leave you with a photo not taken in my garden but at Arger Fen, a Suffolk Wildlife reserve which I called into after work one day last week.


And I heard a cuckoo, black caps and willow warblers as well as seeing the bluebells :-)