Let me take you for a walk around the garden at Rose Orchard Haus. There is a lot of yellow-orange about at the moment.
Even the insects are getting into the colour scheme.
The dahlias are going gang busters this year and looking ever so lovely with fresh green lawn.
The Californian Poppies are flowering in the meadow (aka "the place I don't want to mow").
Other flowers are getting to the yellow-orange act too.
But I've saved the best to last. Look at the little yellow fluff ball I discovered when I looked over the back fence.
What are your gardens up to?
Even the insects are getting into the colour scheme.
The dahlias are going gang busters this year and looking ever so lovely with fresh green lawn.
The Californian Poppies are flowering in the meadow (aka "the place I don't want to mow").
Other flowers are getting to the yellow-orange act too.
But I've saved the best to last. Look at the little yellow fluff ball I discovered when I looked over the back fence.
What are your gardens up to?
Amazing nature!
ReplyDeleteWe already have wasps - usually they turn up come August!! And see, I love poppies for a reason, too!
And ohhhh, such a cutie pie!
We only have a small balcony, but when the frost is over I'll do some planting.
Wasps - eeek. Since the rain we seems to have heaps more flies than usual.
DeleteWow your garden is looking lovely. The duckling is so cute.
ReplyDeleteThanks Diane. This particular garden is more about small pockets of interest with vast expanses of lawn.
DeleteSuch lovely colours there and such a cute little fluff ball. Our dahlias are dying off now but the chrysanthemums are starting to look magnicifient so Mother's Day must be around the corner. What an odd day that will be this year...no hugs for mums :-(
ReplyDeleteThis garden doesn't have any chrysanthemums so I must get around to trying them. The neighbour has them and they are growing beautifully so I know the climate suits them.
DeleteYour garden is looking wonderful. And the duckling is darling!
ReplyDeleteI'm planting for summer now. It's early for our area so I'm taking a bit of a risk that we may still have some early morning frost. But I found a number of plant starts that should be hearty enough: red onions, leeks, Russian kale, sugar pea pods. Lettuce starts went in today; hopefully, they'll do fine. Still to come: squash, potatoes, and scarlet runner beans.
That list of plantings is interesting to me because they are mostly things we can plant now in our Autumn gardens before winter sets in. Of course our winters are mild in comparison to yours.
DeleteSo much colour still in the garden Joan Elizabeth. I find April the best month for the roses, then there are the hibiscus, and the crepe myrtle and lots of yellow and orange similar to you 💛
ReplyDeleteThe autumn rose flush is nice but nowhere near as good as the spring display here. I have crepe myrtles out the front and they are lovely but also a bit of a disappointment as their flowering period is very short ... just a few weeks whereas the gardening books say they can flower for up to 3 months in certain climates. I had a native hibiscus until this year, something seems to have got into it and it died so I attacked the skeleton with a chainsaw this week.
DeleteYour garden is a joy to walk through. I love the paving and maryigolds. How delightful to discover that yellow ball of fluff!
ReplyDeleteI am happy with the paving which is broken up cement blocks from an old path in our other garden and they were just lying around taking up space. The marigolds and calendulas taking up residence near the path is a big bonus. I spread the seed from the flowers last year in the hopes that this would happen.
DeleteLovely garden, Joan. It looks like it's going really well.
ReplyDeleteGiven that it has lots of lawn it's wonderful that it's now green and really does look lovely - is making me very happy right now.
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