TODAY'S FLOWERS - Primulas

When skies are grey and days are dreary,

it's good to have something bright and cheery.

Just a few of the primulas I have recently planted

and can see from both the kitchen sink and my bedroom.

I hope you all have flowers to enjoy!

TODAY'S FLOWERS - Winter Colour

Some people are just blessed. 

My niece came for the weekend from far, far away.

Here is my private garden gnome attacking the wasteland that is

my garden.

A couple of days later, there was a cleared patch and some

 rounds prepared for my tulips.

She even bought me some winter cheer 

which brought the sun out and a butterfly as an added bonus.

Isn't it great that flowers show up every day!

Winter gems

Oxalis glowing in its drab winter surroundings.

Lachenalia quadricolour welcoming at the garden gate

A neglected secret garden bright with Oxalis pes-caprae, Soursob in Austalia, Bermuda Buttercup in New Zealand and many other names in many other places.

A nudge and a wink in an otherwise dormant garden. A Geranium my grandson grew for me when he was 10. It has flowered year in year out through rain, snow and drought for 9 years.

Chaenomeles japonica on a fence behind a droplet covered Betula alba. In summer hidden behind a curtain of leaves, in winter glowing in morning light where we see it on first waking.




All the sparkling diamonds the faeries left behind after their nightly forays through my garden.