Well that's a weight off my mind.. it's not a suppository.
#theSmallThings
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!
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
My Margaret Merril rose is blooming and it smells absolutely divine. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy #Roses #DavidAustinRoses
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🪶
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
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
I do love alliums, they’re spiky spheres of beauty! #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy
Lovely lupins for what is currently being an incredibly productive Friday. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy
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
Walled garden loveliness with columbines (aquilegia) and day-lilies. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy
Apparently it is #WorldBeeDay so here is a bumblebee enjoying one of my cornflowers. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy
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!
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
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.
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
Thursday brings a cascade of multi-coloured rhododendron flowers in such bright sunlight they’re almost glowing. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy
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
Today’s rhododendron is white and fantastically frilly. #TheSmallThings #SpreadingJoy