Saturday, 30 April 2011

End of April 2011, photographs taken today

 Saxifrages

 Lily of the valley, waiting for the village plant sale

 The Dunwich Rose, pale cream yellow, single and simple

 Unusual tulips, second year of flowering

 The Banksian Rose, rose banksii, yellow double flowers

 Banksian Rose, close up

 Rose 'Canary Bird'. Single, simple and yellower than the Dunwich Rose

 clematis, new this year

 Blue geraniums, with Choisa Aztek Gem behind

 Purple leaved weigela, with its variagated pale green sport shining out. 
After 3 years, four cuttings have at last survived.

 Cornflowers, with Deutzia behand.

 True lupin, with gorse behind

 Through the geraniums towards the summer house, with sweet pea wigwams visible

 Three trees - pocket handkerchief, front; pink midland thorn; then white hawthorm.
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Finally today, the first of the Iris 'Stephen', with hellebores behind and Choisa 'Aztek Pearl' in the distance.

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