Welcome to my garden again. I took these photos yesterday. The jasmine has finally opened its flowers and its scent is overpowering, specially in the evening. It usually blooms around my birthday in February but this time it was late.
The weather was really wet, cold and windy until a few days ago and the garden looked terrible. My lawn looked like this.
The green bit is where the dogs kept the weeds under control by walking over to the fence. I just wish that they had decided to walk over the rest of my grass!
My star lavender is looking like this, which means I have to move two small rose bushes that are now completely overshadowed.
Around other rose bushes the lotus is beginning to flower. I planted the lotus for ground cover although I am not yet sure it was the best choice.
Here are the last of the yellow orchids. I'm surprised the flowers have lasted so long. Now it's the turn of the red ones.
The pink orchid may bloom for next month's post.
And now for the new additions - The freesias I bought last year have presented me with white, yellow, red and wine-coloured blooms but I need more bulbs for more effect.
I love these daffodils. They were on sale (having finished blooming) by the check-out at a garden centre and I couldn't resist. When the time came I potted the bulbs and a few days later my new dog decided to unpot them. When I rescued them (I shudder to think what would have happened to Pandora if she had decided to chew them), I wasn't sure they would take kindly to so much commotion, but here they are. And they are scented! I'm so glad I bought them.
Now I'm off to link to May Dreams Gardens and to see what is happening in other gardens around the world.
gardens may be a lot of work but boy they are worth it
ReplyDeleteYour garden looks lovely! It's been hard this Spring with so little water...and in the last week everything has been drowned or blown over! The weather in the Algarve can certainly be a challenge!
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