In My Garden

For one reason and another it has been quite a while since I wandered around our garden.   It was full of surprises!  

Tucked away in a corner was a pot I had planted hyacinths in – they were flowering!  I have never had any luck growing hyacinths before and I am sure they shouldn’t be flowering until spring, but they smell heavenly and I have moved them to a position near the back door so we can enjoy their scent more.

The Iceland poppies are still flowering and the bees were loving them.  I made a mental note that I need to do some deadheading in the near future.

There was an old tree stump in the back lawn which son has dug out – but obviously some of the rotting wood still remains as these toadstools have popped up where the stump was.

As cats do, Mittens came and joined me to see what I was doing.

The peas are finally beginning to grow.

Yellow violas brighten up this corner, growing beneath a young feijoa tree.

The autumn flowering Sasanqua Camellia is blooming – it has a faint scent but the shrubs are not healthy and son is contemplating removing them.

Not to be left out, Millie decided to come and investigate mum-in-the-garden as well.

I am glad I went for a wander around our garden on this dull winter’s day J 

Margaret.