Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
I am SO excited about this rather showy specimen – it’s been a LONG time in the making…… It’s four years since a near neighbour very kindly snapped two pieces for me from her Epiphyllum. It’s a strange plant (part of the cactus...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
In tandem with the Burmese Honeysuckle, the frangipanis have opened their first flowers of the season….. Too high up to reach, I’ll have to wait for them to fall so I can gather them up and enjoy their wonderful summer scent.
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
The heat (while knocking out some of the most fragile spring flowers) has brought on some glorious early summer blooms. I delight in this delicately scented Crinum pedunculatum which grows outside our bedroom windows and lends a tropical air of romance. Although...
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
They just keep on coming….! OK, so they’re a bit ‘pink’ at the moment but they look so pretty and they smell divine. All lovely squishy, multiple petals. These are a combination of David Austin Abraham Darby and Leander.
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
Or any other fragile beauties for that matter….’while ye may’, because I reckon today’s searing heat may well be the end of those sweetly scented & delicate early spring delights. Plunge in & breathe deeply – heaven!
Sep 18, 2021 | Mickey's Blog, The Garden
Constance Spry nods about in the breeze, above clouds of lime/yellow euphorbia….
