Oh dear - someone didn't read the dress code!

"Blue and white flowers only please."

Don't you just hate it when that happens.

The only thing to do is stand tall, hold your head high and smile. Sunflowers are good at that!

Passion flowers make it the top!

Only seven weeks ago we planted these two passion flowers - one on each side of an arch. They have now met in the middle and entwined tendrils! How romantic.

Fibonacci Rules!

The first of the passion flowers is out! Often quoted as an example of Fibonacci numbers in nature it has:

3 inner dark brown stigmas
5 greenish stamens
2 sets of 5 pale green petals
and (allegedly) 55 purple and white filaments- but I haven't counted those

Borrowed a passing usher ...

... to test drive the parterre. Doesn't he look smart!

Floribunda abundance

This floribunda rose is certainly fullfilling the "many-flowering" promise in its name. Amazing that it can support so many flowers on one stem.

More tree work

James was back this week to trim the oak trees that were threatening the telephone wire. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a small branch becomes an enormous branch once it's on the ground.