A Walk about the Garden.

When the light is right it is very easy to spend the few minutes it takes to stroll around the garden and take photographs. Over time, many of the shots become routine – the regular views are taken regularly but, rather than becoming repetitive they show the changes of the seasons and the changes of the light so the same view may be quite different each time one looks. And then, of course, there will always be a new flower to catch the eye, a new plant coming to its best and always and ever something to catch the eye and remind one of a job to be done.

However, for the moment, for there will always be work to be done in a garden, let’s forget work and enjoy the garden:

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And then, there are the individuals which catch the eye and were worth photographing – I have posted photographs of the colchicums earlier today as I felt they deserved a blog entirely to themselves. This hawthorn, Crataegus prunifolius, is giving another display of interest. It is a tree very well worth its place in the garden with excellent spring flower, an impressive set of haws each year and excellent autumn colour.

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Crataegus prunifolius – click on a photographs to enlarge.

Some other individuals which caught my eye today:

Viburnum setigerum, a shrub of upright habit which has an excellent set of berries each year. Despite this generous set, I have never noticed seedlings around it.

Fascicularia bicolor, certainly an interesting plant though very uncomfortable to handle. “Baboon’s Bum” is a common name!

A planting combination I like very much: Aster ‘Little Carlow’ in the background. The deep pink-flowered sedum came from cuttings of ‘Purple Emperor’ which seemed to revert after propagation. Bergenia ciliata has great big leaves which will go brown with the first frosts and die to the ground but will return perfectly next spring and the sedum to the front is ‘Autumn Joy’.

A lazy photograph – taken from inside the house, looking out the window of the livingroom, to show the Cyclamen hederifolium growing under the gingko tree.

A poppy without a name, grown from a pinch of seed from a friend’s garden some years ago and it has continued through its self-seeding since.