#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱The garden is looking exhausted, only the area around the house fed with saved grey water is doing well. The raspberries are coming of the canes dehydrated, if this is the new normal radical rethinking is needed

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱soft pinksand creamy yellows belie the toughness of these survivors

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 slightly cooler for the last couple of weeks but still no rain, much of the garden is parched but some tenacious flowers are still doing well, surviving on saved shower and washing up water.

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling Creme de cognac, if ice cream were a flower.

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling Another apocalyptically hot week, a lot of the garden looks September tired, but a few gems keep shining through

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling

#MondayMagenta #Bloomscrolling #Dahlia

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling #Dahlias The dahlias that survived the slugs, the rabbits, the cold, the heat and the wind are deservedly smug

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 daisies standing tall

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling Pale and interesting in the heat

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling 🌱The shade of early morning allows the pollinators to work, it is even too hot for bees. I know gardeners always complain about the weather, but it really is apocalypticly hot

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling The weather has been odd, inconsistent and unhelpful, the rabbits and slugs voracious but the flowers keep battling on

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling 🌱There is apparently no normal anymore, after two dry weeks of 30+ degrees it’s been cold with torrential downpours, wind and hail, the flowers are resisting better than the vegetables.

#SundayYellow #Bloomscrolling The simple, joyous beauty of the Welsh poppy

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling #Roses The garden is dripping with roses and it smells divine

🌱 #FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling #Roses Basking in the sunshine

🌱 #Bloomscrolling #Roses Passage to the garden smelling its best

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 a few warm days after the rain brings a growth spurt

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling The flowers are keeping to their schedules even if the weather isn’t.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTForTime The passing of my time

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 A wet and chilly week that felt more like March than May, but the flowers are sticking to their schedule and have withstood hail, torrential rains and wild winds

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 purity among bustle of the border

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForSong Love is like butterfly

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 the irises are now stepping into the limelight as the borders fill out.

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 Forget Christmas, this is the most wonderful time of the year, anew present unwraps itself each morning

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRForReflections

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling A garden of tiny flowers.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQForQueen Queen lime red zinnia

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling May Day morning flowers

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling A transitional moment in the garden, last tulips and first roses, the wisteria and irises are just entering the scene and the aquilegia are taking shape