First signs of spring: primroses on the Back Hill early in April |
Spring has arrived. Daffodils in the bank below the house and shrubs unfolding new leaves |
Rhododendrons in mid May. Out of the picture - plants severely 'pruned' by the local pests, otherwise known as red deer |
Later in the year this gunnera will be over 8 feet tall |
May time, with lilac, aquelegia, and abutilon in flower |
Creeping buttercup making a take-over bid for the old orchard flower bed |
One of the borders in early June with the enkianthus in flower |
Thyme, bedstraw, stonecrop, vetch, moss and lichen - natural rockery |
Euphorbia, hydrangea petiolaris and honeysuckle at the gate to the White Garden |
This is supposed to be White Garden! |
Geranium in a quiet corner |
By the trough, in June.
We confess - it isn't always this sunny |
Heath spotted orchid
- prolific on one of our hills in July |
Less often seen here despite its name,
common field orchid |
Fledgling swallows in the byre |
Along the drive in August, with rosa rugosa and golden rod in full bloom |
Hoheria sexstylosa (we think!), hydrangea macrophylla, rosa rugosa - and Sophie wolfhoundii |
Eucryphia nymansensis,
wonderfully honey-scented in August |
September is often a really sunny month
but it's just started to rain so I'm off |
Hydrangea Preziosa in October |
Our Katsura tree in autumn, when it scents the air
with a toasted sugar fragrance |
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Back to summer - Sophie in the home meadow before the sheep move in |
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