Summer is in full swing and actually it hasn't been bad this last month or so.....a few days of rain but very welcome as it keeps the garden watered. We'll start with this years favorite.....the hollyhock...
The next nominee for best flower is on my list every year...the old English rose.. The one that particularly caught my eye is called The Generous Gardener from David Austin - those luscious whorls of petals on petals and above all the heavenly scent. Pity we can't do scratch & sniff on this page??
Isn't it gorgeous - just that one bloom perfumes a whole room....
The next contender reminds me of home where the cosmos lines the summer roadsides of the Free State & Kwazulu Natal in huge swathes of colour...
The one thing I dislike about gardening in the UK are these loathsome creatures...Now I'm not normally that squeamish but slugs manage to do it...especially when they are out en masse of an evening and you happen to go outside with bare feet (as you do when you are South African)...ughhhh...I've put a pound coin down so you can see how humungous this one was..it took all my nerve to retrieve the coin again..
On to something much cuddlier....Clarissa...a gardener's companion (or maybe that should be supervisor?)...Favourite game: trying to catch the moths that come out in the evening...
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