Quiltingorchardist

I know I said I was having a break from this but I did find a couple of things flowering that I hadn't shown here. These wee ones...

 Today a little bedding dianthus ( same family as carnations ). I am struggling now to find new  flowers out  in this garden. I have thou...

                                                        Gazania - Copper sunset.  Sorry  Pam D it's orange but changes colour shades ...

                         24 hours later and sun all day can do this to a rose.  This is Golden Wedding and it has been flowering cont...

                 My flower today is of course Papaaver or Poppy. I am also wearing my handmade poppy.  We made them at Patchwork an...

A gazania  ( with an interesting face ) that grows at the edge of retaining wall. It is drought tolerant so a suitable place for it and i...

A little mauve Larkspur. Not a very large or vigorous specimen. I think it grew from seed from a packet of mixed cottage garden seeds.,th...

Today a small white cyclamen growing under the big tree at the front gate. It is difficult to get detail in a photo of white flowers - not...

Today a white and mauve phlox, a bedding annual. I have 4 or 5 different colours. ( you could see cerise ones in yesterday flower photo.) ...

This coleus is growing in the garden. It shouldn't be flowering. I usually nip the tips out, that way the plant lasts longer. From one...

 Today's tiny flower is a trailing lobelia in a terracotta pot.  It is dark blue / purple and keeps self sowing in the pot.  It...

That's a bit bright and in your face isn't it.  It's a close up of one of the geranium flowers in a pot I have outside. I a...

 This chrysanthemum started off inside the house as a pot plant last year and was later planted out in the garden under a cherry tree. It...

Today a Bromiliad called Aechmea fasciata. It is a tropical plant but was in this garden when we came, in a very sheltered spot in front ...

  Wee White polyanthus which are recovering from the very dry conditions we had over Summer.  Today I made a mixed grain loaf of br...

Violets today hiding down low  between the leave as there is a trashing wind here toda y.  I did bend right down for a smell of them th...

Something bright today, a yellow low growing dahlia.  We have cloudy weather with the odd shower. In the night it was quite stormy and ...

  Happy Easter ( possibly the strangest one ever )  Today's flower is a Japanese Anemone or wind flower.  My favourite Wind fl...

  Today the flower on a pot plant is called Huernia . It looks like a succulent but apparently is its own genus.  The pot stands ne...

 Today a very bright red Vireya rhododendron.  I have planted lots of red ones some white ( with scent ) and some apricot. All except o...