Hello again,
Beatrix is patiently waiting for you by the garden gate to show you the delphiniums and the cottage garden in high Summer....
With all the early rainfall we had had here in England the delphiniums were off to a very good start and bloomed more flower stems than ever before...
I love blues and purples in a cottage garden....
And of course pinks too and even more so if they are hollyhocks and roses!
High Summer and blooms are blooming....
The rose campion i grew on from tiny seedlings have flowered and flowered and are still going strong today,my Dad used to grow this so it is a familiar friendly face for me..
I wish you could smell the roses....
Lovely ruffled petals of lavender and pink...
Lots of buds ready to burst and flower stems reaching for the sky...
Foxgloves in peachy pink with speckled throats,this was my favourite and i have gathered a little paper bag full of seeds....
Moss rose with it's glowing pink cups and open ruffled blooms revealing a yellow eye...
Roses,roses everywhere....
I will be planting more roses this Autumn to fill in the gaps and add perfume while moving a few plants around here and there..
Some more white delphiniums may be on the shopping list too,they glow at dusk...
And look lovely against Summer blue skies...
I may add some more of my favourite delphinium with it's sooty dark eye reminding me of old embroideries.....
We have old fashioned pinks growing on in pots on the south side of the cottage,this one called 'Doris' is next to the gate in the cottage garden and it's spicey perfume greets you as you come in the gate....
We like perfume in our cottage garden and roses know how to do this so well...
They can perfume my kitchen window ledge inside too as i wash the dishes and look out onto the cottage garden....
Hollyhocks and baskets of flowers....
Sweetpeas in lovely shades of white,blue,lilacs and deep velvet burgundy and their perfume wafting on the breeze....
The dog daisies lit up the garden when they burst into bloom and put on quite the show....
Well the days are getting shorter and the nights are drawing in now but we did just have a lovely warm sunny weekend out and about that i shall soon tell you all about....
Have a lovely week and and will you join us next time for more tales and goings on from Shingle Cottage?
XxX