Today was warmer than yesterday, but largely overcast until after lunch when I wandered around the garden with my camera taking advantage of the diffused light.
Before then I made considerable further progress with “Kristin Lavransdatter”.
The very hardy Erigeron plants are popping up everywhere, as are the yellow Welsh poppies now in need of my deadheading duties.
Clusters of libertia, like these beneath the wisteria, are quite prolific.
Our bright red varieties of rhododendron thrust themselves into view whichever way we look.
Fine blue irises stand proud.
Jackie’s greenhouse cuttings are burgeoning.
Peonies are becoming massive.
Shrubs such as spirea, vibernum plicata, weigela, and the last, now identified by Martin with the aid of an App on his phone, as a deutzia, are in full bloom.
Ferns, including those acting as backdrop for the orange tip butterfly, are fully unfurled.
Bees also visited such as the vinca.
This antirrhinum sat well in front of a red maple fading from view.
The Rose Garden is beginning to prosper.
The copper beech is in good leaf after its recent trimming,
and the clematis against the fence between us and North Breeze is bursting into stellar shape.
After such a wet April the current warmth has made for a sudden growth spurt.
This evening we dined on spicy beef burgers, chunky chips, chestnut mushrooms, baked beans and onion rings, with which I drank a Reserva Privado Chilean Merlot 2022.
