Flower Photos

In order to capture the best of our garden throughout spring and summer I've tried to continue to develop my fledgling photography skills. So here's another little post full of the colour and splendour of nature.

Cactus

     

26 June                                               9 July 

After our visit to the Blair Estate open garden day we decided we needed to have more scent in the garden. We were inspired by the beautiful roses we saw and smelled during our visit and set out the very next day to find a climbing rose for the front of the house. This is 'The Pilgrim' which seems to have settled in very nicely and has produced large white flowers with a delicate scent.

      

Rose 'The Pilgrim' flower buds

and the open flower

Mimulas

Mimulas

    

Hosta Flower spike and open flower

Primula Vivali 

    

Sweet Williams 

Red rose flower 

Calibrachoa 

    

Beautiful Lillies 

Trollius Gold Queen 

Delphinium Alba 

Our new Clematis 'Madame Le Coultre' 

The Clematis after the flower petals have dropped. 

Nasturtium flowers to encourage pollination in the polytunnel. 

Echinacea flower buds 

    

Berkheya Purpurea (The thistle that thinks it's a sunflower) 

Cosmos 

Brachycome 

New shrub rose St Richard of Chichester 

Massive flowers with the most beautiful scent

Amberboa

As the summer continues there are so many more flowers to come, some new to us this year and others which we hope have survived the winter to return again. No doubt I'll have a few more photos to share from the garden before autumn arrives.