Putting up with plenty of short, sharp showers between the sun, our Choisya ternata is my entry for this months Folia Bloom Day. We almost got rid of it as I am not particularly keen on the colour of the … Continue reading →

Some of our plants are still flowering but I wanted to capture this geranium growing in our front garden for December’s Bloom Day as it only recently put out fresh flowers. Doesn’t it know it’s Christmas time? It is a … Continue reading →

Given that it is mid-November, there is a surprising amount still flowering in the garden. That thought came to me rather late last night so I wasn’t able to pop out to take a new picture to claim my folia … Continue reading →

For October’s Bloom Day, I have picked my pink chrysanthemums, which are flowering in both the back and front gardens: One more month and then I will have a bloom registered in every month of the year. Who says flowers … Continue reading →

September’s Bloom Day contribution is our Sedum spectabile: The second part of the binomial name, spectabile, denotes “showy” or “striking” and I think it lives up to that, especially when so much else in the garden is beginning to ease … Continue reading →

Not long now and I will have a year’s worth of Folia Bloom Day badges, marking a sample of things that have been flowering in my garden throughout the year. Will I make it through the dying days of autumn … Continue reading →

It is Bloom Day time again on Folia. What to contribute from my garden? I am spoilt for choice, as July is a month which sees numerous plants in full bloom, but I think I will choose this specimen of … Continue reading →

Two flowers have got their timing right to get me my June Bloom Day badge on the Folia website. The one I had been expecting for a few days was this Cosmos bipinnatus: We were given it last year, shortly … Continue reading →