Hydrangea macrophylla pink
Useful shrub for late autumn blooms and dried flowers.
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Time to enjoy your handiwork
Lawn mown, beds weeded, time for a sit down.
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Tropical plants in pots
dustbins screened in backyard with potted tropical plants
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Shade in a Provencal Garden
Cotinus, chene vert, holm oak
Location: Provence
autumn colour in Yosemite
native American trees and redwoods in Yosemite
Location: USA
Reed beds on Suffolk Coast
changing colours of reeds and sea.
Location: Suffolk
Giverny
Monet’s Garden
Location: Vernon, France
Laburnum
Mill Barn Garden
Location: Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire
iris sibirica Concord Crush
Violet-blue iris growing to 80 to 90 cms
Location: Mill Barn Garden, Aylesbury Vale
Hellebore
Hellebore Single White Spotted Ellen
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Bougainvillea
Bougainvillea trained in a terracotta pot
Location: Jumby Bay
wasp on Japanese anemone
wasps are pollinators too.
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Autumn at Great Dixter
Christopher Lloyd's iconic garden
Location: Northiam, East Sussex
Mill Barn Garden border
cosmos and euonymus europaeus
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Lilium Martagon
Tiger lily
Location: Aylesbury Vale
mainly herbaceous border
Queen of Sweden rose
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Pink Tulips and Forget-me-nots
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Wallflower "Sunset Orange
Erisimum, cheiranthus
Location: Aylesbury Vale
mixed hellebores
Hellebores that have survived the snow
Location: Aylesbury Vale
First light
anemone turning its face to first rays of spring sunshine
Location: Aylesbury Vale
spring has sprung
mixed crocus and primula
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Torch ginger Etlingera elatior
the heart of the ginger
Location: Mauritius Botanic Garden
Petrea volubillis
known locally as "Queen's Wreath"
Location: Mauritius. Flowering now November
cosmos
Last of the summer annuals
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Stargazer lily
Flowers July August Height of 1 metre
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Annual border
seed sown cosmos, antirrhinum and delphiniums
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Cosmos Bipinnatus "Purity"
Annual
Location: Aylesbury Vale
wild flowers on field headland
poppies and red and white centranthus or valeriean
April Border
Yellow and red tulips with wallflowers.
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Hellebore hybrid
self seeded hellebore
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Flamboyant tree Delonix regia
Glorious blossom in November
Location: Mauritius
King Protea
native of Western Cape South Africa
Location: Treso Abbey Gardens, Scilly Isles
wild flower meadow
meadow on a garrigue hillside
Location: Provence
Garrigue hyssop
wildflowers and grasses growing on a garrigue hillside
Location: Senanque Vaucluse
Tulip Flaming Parrot
late flowering tulip
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Mill Barn Garden
Part of the Colour Garden in April
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Anemone
woodland spring flower
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Japanese anemones
Late afternoon autumn sunshine
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Foxtail lilies
Eremusus stenophyllis breaking into bloom
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Rosa Queen of Sweden
Midsummer's day
Location: Mill Barn Garden, Aylesbury Vale
Dicentra spectabilis
Bleeding heart
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Rembrandt tulips
Tulips and a nettle
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Rembrandt tulips
Tulips in spring border.
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Tulip Ballerina
Lily flowered tulip
Location: Aylesbury Vale
narcissus pseudonarcissus,
daffs silver birch, beech and early morning mist
Location: Mill Barn garden, Aylesbury Vale
Avenue of flame trees
delonix regia, flame tree or flamboyant
Location: Mauritius in November
Virginia Creeper
Parthenocisus
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Calla lily
Calla lily in front of an autumn tinted euonymus
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Last strawberries of the summer
Strawberries in bowl
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Rose and cosmos
Queen of Sweden rose and cosmos Purity
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Cottage garden hollyhocks
yellow hollyhocks growing at the side of a cottage door
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Tulip "Flaming Club"
late flowering tulip starting to fade
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Papaver "Turkenlouis"
Oriental Poppy
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Tulip
The heart of the tulip
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Wisteria in storm light
Wisteria on limestone wall in showery Provence
Location: Luberon, Provence
Hellebore hybrids
A selection of hellebores in flower at Mill Barn Garden
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Hybrid hellebores
Looking none the worse for their winter soaking
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Double primrose
emerging from the melting snow
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Camelia
A camelia which has misjudged its flowering
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Girl holding Lamp of Wisdom
By sculptor Nathan David
Location: Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire
red ginger Alpinia purpurata
Originally from Malaysia but now widespread in hot shady places'
Location: This one seen in Mauritius, Nov 30th
Waterperry Gardens
Traditional herbaceous border
Location: Waterperry, Oxfordshire
Hibiscus
Tender hibiscus
Location: Provence
The River Thame running through Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire
A slow moving, gentle river at this point.
Location: Waterperry
Sunflower, helianthus
Symetrical pattern of sunflower seeds
Location: Dordogne
Nectaroscordum siculum syn allium nectaroscordum siculum
bursts into pink and white bells in May. Seeds freely.
Location: UK
British bumblebee
on astrantia
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Astrantia
with bumblebee
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Three Little Maids from School
Lamprocapnos spectabilis Alba, syn dicentra spectabilis Alba, syn bleeding heart
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Aquilegia
Mid June
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Astrantia
A reliable perennial
Location: Buckinghamshire
Iris sibirica "Pleasures of May"
One of the first Iris to flower. White tinted lavender standards, white with violet flecked style arms, light violet with white signals, veined falls.
Location: Aylesbury Vale
Raymond Evison clematis
Clematis "The Countess of Wessex" TM
cactus echinocereus rigidissimus rubrispinus
Kew's titan arum
Amorphophallus titanum, flowered 1st May, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew
Tropical waterlily and leaves
Hummingbird
Location: Mexico
lotus in lotus pond
lotus seedpod
Sue weeding pots on the outdoor benches.
Parthenocissus tricuspidata Veitchii and grapevine
Frosted pampas grass and box
nelumbo nucifera -lotus