Our Garden: End of May 2024

 Our beautiful roses

yellow - "Arthur Bell"

"Joie de Vivre" 

"Brother Cadfael"

"Cardinal Richelieu"

"White Star"

"Arthur Bell" in bud

"Birthday Best"

 

"Arthur Bell" changes from yellow to pale cream.

"Happy Anniversary"

unknown name - pink with lots of small flowers

The sky is blue today - hurray!  Next time I'll show you the rest of the garden especially Mr P's fruit and vegetables.

Thank you for coming by.  Have a good day!

Flowers in July

Thank you for your kind comments after my last blog post.  I'm glad to say that the members of our family who were ill are better now.  Our local daughter and the rest of the family have helped us from afar by keeping in regular touch.   Recently our daughter M who lives locally was able to visit us once more and gave us a beautiful bouquet of  roses and lilies.  It was our 58th wedding anniversary last month so I arranged the flowers in a vase and placed them near a favourite photo of Mr P and I relaxing in the garden which had been taken by our granddaughter.

The weather is a lot cooler now in the UK and there have been frequent rain showers, but in other European countries and in the United States I understand that extreme weather conditions have caused problems of drought and wild fires.  It must be very worrying to be living in such conditions.

I took a walk in the park and saw the patches of wild flowers that the park staff  had sown near the library and rose garden earlier in the year.

In our own front garden the row of sunflowers grown by Mr P from seed have all done well.  There have been rain storms and strong winds, but they've survived.......

....... and there are many new flowers in the covered yard and indoors.

The grapes are developing in the greenhouse along with courgettes and other vegetables.  Hopefully we'll get some sunshine soon to ripen the grapes.

Thank you for coming by.  Have a good day!

A celebration

                                                 roses (Arthur Bell) at different times of the day

Only a few photos today!  We've had a quiet, but good week, which I'll share another time.

Wishing you all a good weekend.

A garden centre visit

    When we were out the other morning we couldn't pass by one of our two local

garden nurseries without going in as it's a good place

to buy gifts, get some inspiration for decorating the home this season

and gardening in the new year.

The site is extensive so walking around outdoors and in the various

 indoor departments is a pleasant way to browse and shop
away from the crowds. 

  

There was a whole room dedicated to pretty, twinkly Christmas

decorations and plenty of indoor pot plants, which I was much more

interested in. I wanted to add some more natural greenery around our
living rooms and I bought a tray of three small buckets of Delft Blue hyacinths

and a bowl of White Pearl hyacinths. 

I've set up a Nativity creche which was a gift that one of our grandsons
 gave us last year made from a balsa wood kit.

  Today I bought a bunch of white roses from Lidl - always good value for money.

I'll put the Christmas tree in place and decorate it in a week or two.
 Some Christmas cards have started to arrive
and I want to think of a new way of displaying them.

The weather was beautiful again today - very cold, but sunny,
so a good time to get out and about when there's the opportunity.
I hope you're having a peaceful weekend.

June roses

After the rainy days at the beginning of the week I'm glad to say that we then had one or two dry, even sunny days. On Thursday we went to the area in Derbyshire that we had planned on Monday but had decided against it because of the stormy weather. (More about that day another time).
On Friday I was dropped me off at the park entrance so that I could go to the library in our local park and browse the books.

Thankfully the heavy rain hadn't spoilt the blooms.  There were no labels so I don't know the names.

I've included this bush as it usually looks quite ordinary, but now that it's suddenly full of flowers it looks pretty and is attracting the bees.  Perhaps you can give me the name of it?

At home I'm enjoying our own roses.

The shortbread made with rose water and rose petals

 was bought during our day out on Thursday.

when we visited Tideswell and the surrounding villages

of Cressbrook and Litton.