Thursday, 3 April 2025

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. "/>
My china tea rose is coming into flower in the conservatory. It is a spindly little thing with a very thin stem and a floppy head so a bit of a nightmare to arrange in a vase. Even so, I just love it and each year am delighted when it bursts into bloom
This is what my favourite rose book has to say about it.
I'm expecting a delivery oof compost tomorrow. My idea of a really good treat!
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7 comments:

  1. Susan Heather3 April 2025 at 13:20

    Love your garden and the sun. I share your idea of a good treat. :)

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  2. local alien3 April 2025 at 23:02

    The China tea rose is lovely. As for the magnolia, I can imagine the wonderful display.

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  3. Librarian3 April 2025 at 23:33

    Magnolias are truly spectacular right now, aren't they! There are many varieties around my neighbourhood, from small white star-shaped to large purple tulip-like blossoms. I admire them but have to admit I am glad that it's not me who has to sweep the fallen petals :-)
    The tea rose is lovely! Yellow being my favourite colour, and I can just imagine its delicate scent.

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  4. jabblog4 April 2025 at 02:41

    We can't grow paeonies, though we've tried. Your rose is beautiful, so delicate. Our magnolias are opening now - so lovely.

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  5. ellen abbott4 April 2025 at 07:57

    Two magnolias here, the deciduous Japanese magnolia (also called tulip tree) that blooms the small flowers with pink on the outside, white/cream on the inside petals before the tree leafs out and the evergreen grandiflora with the enormous white flowers. The previous have/are blooming but the latter not yet.

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  6. Rajani Rehana5 April 2025 at 08:10

    Beautiful post

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