Can still use a camera with a broken arm

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Between June showers

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The orange azalea

When you look closely, what I call the orange azalea isn’t really orange at all. Well, maybe a wee bit: subtle colours.

photo taken 4 June

photo taken 9 June

Woodshed rose and pixie hats

The woodshed rose has opened its first flowers in wet and windy weather…

…as the wind blew off the rhododendron ‘pixie hat’ flowers and made a carpet of them.

Some garden purples from yesterday

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Fuchsia magellanica ‘Alba’

 

I’m making a special post about this fuchsia so that I can look it up when I have forgotten the name magellanica ‘Alba’.

I had thought that it might be called ‘Hawkshead’ but, according to @Fuchsiarius, the corolla of Hawkshead should be completely white. You can see some pink in magellanica ‘Alba’. 

I guess the use of alba here, meaning white, just means whitish, or white compared with wild fuchsia, like the red of a European robin redbreast is really orange (or ‘rust’) but we call it red, and the red campion flower is pink!

More flowers each day

First a pic of Fringe Cups, a plant that self-seeded in the garden, actually in the retaining wall of the back terrace, three or four years ago. The next pic is broad-leaved willowherb. Then follows a bigger group that have all begun to flower this week.

Fringe Cups

broad-leaved willowherb

blue irises

sage

This wee plant growing through a King Cups leaf reminds me of Fringe Cups

flowers of the fringe cup-like plant

Northern Marsh orchid

‘Fox & Cubs’/orange hawkweed

Another N.Marsh orchid. I found four today

marsh thistle

herb robert

common cat’s-eye

“UpTop” Rhododendron

“UpTop”, as the name I’ve given it suggests, is up at the top of the garden. It flowered for the first time this year. The view to it was blocked by overgrown sallow so I cut that down for a clearer view. Now I can see “UpTop” from the back door.

sallow blocking the view

sallow leaning on birch

UpTop in flower

Mild, muggy, midgy

Today is a mild, muggy and midgy one. I wore my midge jacket to go on a wellywander. I use wellywanders to assess what needs doing as well as just to look. It’s raining quite heavily as I write this but if the weather clears as forecast this afternoon perhaps I’ll get a garden job done.

leaves of Whorled Caraway hold lots of water

so does Toad Rush

We have rosebuds!

a self-planted bellflower

Lady’s Mantle are also good water droplet holders

Sage getting ready to flower

White foxglove

Clockwise from top left above: leaves of whorled caraway holding water droplets, white bell flower that appeared of its own volition, sage, white foxglove, lady’s mantle leaf holding droplets, the first rosebuds, toad rush also holding water droplets.

Libertia grandiflora

Libertia grandiflora

Libertia grandiflora is flowering now. This is another plant the just appeared from nowhere. I might bring in a stem or two. Apparently they are good cut flowers.

Herb Bennet

Herb Bennet

green worms!

Herb Bennet (Geum urbanum) has begun to flower, and the drive is covered in green ‘worms’, flower stalks from our neighbour’s sycamore tree.

Red Clover enjoyment

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