Mainly roses...

[curiouswombat]

We continue to have warm, dry, sunny weather - it is a proper summer!

I was up early this morning as my sister and I had an appointment at Castle Rushen at 10.00. We left in good time, and got there early - so we sat in the gardens and nattered for a while, before being part of the first group to explore Labyrinth. This was a theatrical event taking part in the castle - as a small group we were taken up and down the circular staircases around the ramparts, in and out of different rooms - but I will leave posting more details because I am hoping there might be a few official photos, as we weren't allowed to take pictures - and, to be honest, it would have been difficult and distracting!

However, as Jackie was going to Mum's, by lunchtime I was home and was able to sit in the garden to read, and eat lunch. Then a shopping trip to Tescos to stock the cupboards and the fridge, and to a local electrical suppliers to buy a new microwave as the old one now has no light and the turntable doesn't work... before retiring back to the garden with my book.

I got an urge to tidy the shed as it got a little cooler this evening - one of those jobs I've been going to do for ages!

But I also thought I would share a few pictures of the garden as I spent so much time there today...



What do this bud, and this flower have in common?






Well, not only are they both roses - but they are the same rose - they are on my one full sized rose bush - Carcassonne.

I do love her - she has pink buds, then blush flowers that become pure white when they are fully open.







My friend lindahoyland takes beautiful pictures of her flowers by night - and I gave it a try a couple of nights ago - but mine aren't as good as hers! However, here is Carcassonne at night -



And, on that shot, I noticed those nice neat, curved pieces out of the leaves - do they look familiar bojojoti?

And finally a few others -

This is a miniature rose, that looked dead for most of last year, but I gave her a chance and this year she has produced a couple of flowers already -



Here is one of my dahlias -



And a close up of the ageratum that is in a couple of the pots - because it looks wonderfully alien, in close up!





Now to go and hang out some washing to dry overnight. What a pleasure to be almost sure that it won't rain, and that by mid morning tomorrow they should be dry!

Comments

[clodia-metelli.livejournal.com]

Carcassone is gorgeous. I love the bud, and that crumpled landscape close-up, and the folds of the chrysanthemums.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

It is a lovely rose - and the only one I have that is (a) not a miniature, and (b) with a name I remember!

I have that crumpled landscape as my desktop at the moment.