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It’s the last day of May and the last of my #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy for a bit, as I go off for a social media free June. Helpfully my Ferdinand Picard rose has bloomed in time to share the raspberry ripple fabulousness with you all. Have a wonderful month, my lovelies, and I’ll see you in July!

A pink rose with petals striped in a dark pink that gives it a “raspberry ripple ice cream” look. It’s surrounded by dark green leaves and other rose buds.

My Darcy Bussell rose, which is such a deep velvety red it never looks on camera how it does in real life, has started to bloom. This is as good a photo as I could get! #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy #DavidAustinRoses

A deep red rose, fully open, showing a multitude of ruffled petals most of which have rain drops on them. In the background are many shades of green leaves and a couple of buttercup flowers.

My Margaret Merril rose is blooming and it smells absolutely divine. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy #Roses #DavidAustinRoses

A white rose with a blush pink centre fills the photo, petals blouse-y and ruffled and surrounded by dark green, shiny leaves.

Today may be wet & miserable looking but my garden is currently the go-to crèche & snack spot for the local birds; so far I’ve spotted juvenile starlings, robins, blackbirds, blue tits, great tits & sparrows along with their adults plus this lovely Song Thrush. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy #Birds🪶

Close up of a song thrush, brown back, tail and head. Speckled beige-brown-cream throat chest and belly. Beady black eye and pale brown legs. It’s standing tall in the grass, looking to the right of the frame.

It has mostly been grey and wet today so I’ll return us all to last week’s sun and the figs in the walled garden at Attingham. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

A branch with large leaves and two green oval fig fruits sprouting from it is growing in front of a red brick wall. Above is a cloudless Mediterranean blue sky.

It’s #TheGlorious25th when we #WearTheLilac and and sing #HowDoTheyRiseUp. Here are lilacs and proof both that I am wearing some and at the start of a fun day out in Oxford with my bestie. Hope everyone else has a glorious Sunday too! #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy #GNUTerryPratchett

close up of fully open pale lilac flowers with vibrant green leaves surrounding them.

I do love alliums, they’re spiky spheres of beauty! #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

A dark purple ball of allium flowers against a background of vivid green leaves.

Lovely lupins for what is currently being an incredibly productive Friday. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

A patch of white lupins fill the foreground of the photo. Behind the flower spikes is some grass the path leading to the well head in the centre of the walled garden, and beyond are more flowerbeds, the red brick walls and a cloudless blue sky.

I can’t decided which photo of the patch of Dwarf Orange Avens in Attingham’s walled garden I prefer, so you get all three (and a bonus bee). #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

View across the walled garden from the patch of dwarf orange aven flowers. Also visible are white lupine, the wall itself, some trees and a cloudless blue sky.

Close up of the patch of dwarf orange aven flowers in full sun, the mottling on the petals and the frilly yellow stamens surrounding the flower centres clearly visible.

Close up of a dwarf orange aven flowers in full sun with a bumble bee right in the centre.

Walled garden loveliness with columbines (aquilegia) and day-lilies. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

A flower bed filled with pink and purple columbines and yellow day-lilies fills the foreground of the photo, lit by bright sunshine. Beyond there is lawn, more flower beds with blue flowers in them, a tree, the red brick walls and a cloudless blue sky.

Apparently it is #WorldBeeDay so here is a bumblebee enjoying one of my cornflowers. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

An early bumblebee sat on a cornflower, wings shining in the sun.

The walled garden at Attingham is delightful at the moment - as the next of week or so of #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy photos will attest - but I want to start off with this unexpected poppy growing at the top of one of the walls; may we all be this vibrant and tenacious!

A poppy plant with two open brilliant red flowers growing - along with some other greenery - in a crack at the top of a red brick wall. The sun is shining brightly and above the brick work the sky is a clear, pure blue.

Yesterday I sanded down and treated the wooden table & bench in my garden and cut back the shrub that was severely encroaching on the path at the corner of the house. Today I will balance my weekend out by mostly resting, writing, and enjoying the last of the blossom.
#TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

A branch hanging over a dirt path in bright sunshine, absolutely covered in white blossom and fresh green leaves.

I have broadband again, just in time for me to get a #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy in under the wire. And today I bring some vibrant and glorious laburnum flowers.

A photo filled with bright yellow cascades of laburnum flowers and the brilliant green leaves surrounding them.

It is Friday, the sun is shining, I’ve had a 4 mile walk this morning, and today the rhododendrons are a bright, beautiful yellow! #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

Close up of a yellow rhododendron flowerhead in full sun, all frilly petals and extravagant stamen, with a background of out of focus green leaves and blue sky.

Thursday brings a cascade of multi-coloured rhododendron flowers in such bright sunlight they’re almost glowing. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

A branch filled with frilly and multi-coloured rhododendron flowers - petals being a mix of white, yellow, pink and peach - in direct and very bright sunlight, surrounded by dark green leaves.

I’m interrupting my scheduled rhododendron posting to share that Cadfael has *just* beaten
Sweet Dreams to be first rose to fully open in my garden this year. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

A vivid pink rose - Cadfael from David Austin roses - surrounded by dark green leaves.

A salmon pink rose bud - Sweet Dreams by David Austin Roses - surrounded by small dappled green leaves.

Today’s rhododendron is white and fantastically frilly. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

A large cluster of frilly white rhododendron flowers with creamy yellow centres and long stamen surrounded by dark green leaves.

Well the rhododendrons are busting out all over at Attingham Park so that’s what you’re getting photos of this week! A pinkish purple one to start #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

A fully open rhododendron flower head, the flowers with pink-purple petals and frilly stamen, sitting on long oval leathery looking leaves. The bright sunshine and blue sky are visible through the out of focus rest of the bush in the background.

I’m having a bad brain day - the sort where it tries to convince me I’m a useless waste of space - but the swifts are screaming overhead, I have also seen house martins & swallows, and there is still blossom on some of the cherry trees so I’ll focus on the good instead. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy

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