Blue skies

Pink blossom looks especially good set against a blue sky, and that is what we have had for most of the week. Some wind and rain today has made the petals fall like confetti. My scrawny magnolia is looking lovely and the massive white magnolias in neighbouring gardens are spectacular.

Everything is colouring up.

I dug up the tree peonies and put them in pots when we moved house two years ago. They are still in those pots, half in, half out of cover. I don't have anywhere in full sun where I can plant them and they seem happy enough for now with a good number of promising buds. "/>