I took these photographs in the back garden around the herb plot. This is one of the times of the year when I am so grateful to my predecessor’s sense of garden design. The burgeoning leaves and flowers remind me every spring and summer that they were chosen complement each other, down to the tiny rock plant’s flowers.
I can only claim credit for the dwarfish lupin. Surely they’re meant to be taller than that? Oh, and the cat who is a delightful beigey shade called ‘lilac’.
Late March and early April is lilac season in our area. We have several of the Descanso lilac hybrids including lavender lady and blue skies, which do not require as much winter chill as the standard lilacs. I took these pictures on March 31. Lilacs have been one of my favorite garden flowers for a long time because of their fragrance and beauty, even though they only bloom once a year. Our lilac flowers are fading now, just as our roses are starting to open.
It’s all looking very beautiful, I love that dark velvety rose. Your lupin reminds me that there is a giant version of the same variety outside the British Museum at the mo – I have a feeling you work near there – on a large poster and I have a photo of my Bea standing, dwarfishly, next to it.
Thanks Charlotte. I’m near South Ken but museums, yes.
What lovely blooms you have there. Is that a Red Elderberry in the first picture? I have no idea about Lupins, I can’t grow them here as they get woolly aphid and die.
Hello. I’ve been wondering where you were as you’ve been quiet! (Oh dear, now I will worry about woolly aphid.)
And thanks. It’s an elderberry nigra, a black one I suppose.