July sunshine?

Lovely flowers. Cheery even in the rain, poor things. Raining here, too. When, oh when, will it stop ....... .?

I know....not today, that's for sure :(

A lovely yellow blog Karen. Still love that clem..am waiting on my new orange peel clem to flower.
Oh this rain!

I do like your green Clems...

All looking fab K :)))

Lovely pics Karen. No rain down here yet but the wind !
Gonna take the dogs up the woods in a bit, blow the cobwebs away :-)

Karen, thanks for sharing your little bit of sunshine, lovely pictures and brightens up another very wet and gloomy day. I am in love with the name of your clematis "Love Child" for me it sounds so romantic and endearing.

I agree Marion...I'm surprised it's not more widely grown, just for the name!

Oh, Willi, rather you than me, I got soaked out there with Molly this am!

Thanks Lulu, Pimps and Pixi

My favourite colour, a lovely blog. Your yellow rose is gorgeous. Just have to get this one.

Sunshine brought into our lives! Thank you Karen.......Golden Showers is absolutely buzzing!

Thanks HB and Julia! :D

Thanks Karen. Love the leaves on that Buddleja 'Santana' - what colour are the flowers? :-)

I love yellow in the garden anytime of year and we definitely need this cheery colour now. Just for a change, its raining again! I love that clem. too. You always seem to find the unusual, Karen.

They are violet Muddy. It produced one last year, I'm hoping for more this year, but it's a late one.

Sunshiney, smiley colours! All so cheerful and cheering too!

Just what we all need on another wet and dismal day, Suinshine by the bucket full in your Garden Karen all looking bright and beautiful;0))

That all looks great Karen. Rosa The Pilgrim is stunning. My favourite is the clematis 'Love Child' - a Diana Ross and the Supremes song too!
Rain miserable!!!!!!!!!!!

Lovely smiley blog, Karen - thanks. Your so good at names usually - your rare memory lapse (mini Petunia thingy) could be Surfinia??!

A real pleasure Karen on such a dreich day .

All gorgeous!

For lack of sunshine your blog brings out the sun anyway! Such lovely flowers & such brilliant colours. too!

Thanks everyone...that's it Sheila! :D

Lovely, Karen - our plants are obviously not giving up, nor should we, but oh dear...... still - the containers really are beginning to bloom, every minute of sunshine (what's that?) is absorbed and I must remain positive! Oh, but it's been so WET today!

Oh, sorry - what a miserable comment!!! Your pictures really are lovely, and I did enjoy looking at them! Thank you :-)

Such a variety of planting Karen, I like that Lycesteria has it produced any golden lanterns yet, and is the canary creeper hardy or do you have to give it protection over winter.

Melchi...no need to apologise, I think we all feel the same!

Stroller, yes it has some lovely lanterns on it already and it flowered in its first year (last year) too. Canary Creeper is an annual I grow from seed, dead easy, a kind of nasturtium.

Meant to say - LOVE your golden Leycesteria: never seen one that pretty before :)

Thanks for the info Karen :o)))

It's lovely isn't it Sheila? That's the one that is AKA 'Leycesteria 'Max Axe Man' remember? You're welcome Stroller!

Sorry Karen - I've never heard that before. Why is it called that?!

Hi Karen, had computer problems again just sorted them and seen this blog - lovely. Love the last one of Summer song and the Broom. My Summer Song flowered at last and I love it only trouble is it was so heavy it snapped off (two flower heads) now they are in water in the kitchen window, but it is a lovely rose.

Sheila it is called that because I was just about to pay for it...june last year...when I got the call form the Emergency dept. to say that Callum had chopped into his ankle with an axe and was waiting for the surgeon at hospital. I never did pay for it. My friend who was with me paid for all the plants and then drove me to the hospital, bless her. She stayed with me until Scott came and made sure that Callum got the best of all treatments as the surgeon on call that day was one of her best friends! She is a good friend! :D

Hi Mum was wondering where you were! We actually had some sun today, it was amazing, the world was totally different! I even got in the garden and cut the grass and did some work...brilliant...even SAT OUTDOORS ...incredible! lol...glad you like the rose, keep sniffing it in the vase! x

they call it Mellow Yellow, lovely blog K

Thanks Bilbo!

A Sunshine Blog - what a cheerful idea and some lovely plants there. I like the Canary creeper, the sedum and the lovely C. Love Child - how romantic! Also, R. Pilgrim looks just like an old English rose which I have had for years and of which I had forgotten the name. Is it scented?

Yes TB, it has a light Tea scent. Thank you.

lovely flower pics karen and hasnt it been misty in scotland, we just got back today but managed to keep dry, seem to keep missing the rain as we went to different places which was great,
lovely and colourfull blog :o))

Oh, San, I didn't know you were in the country!! :D Hope you had a fab time...but yes, weather has been awful...except yesterday which was gorgeous all afternoon and I sat in my garden with a friend.....we even had to find shade!! Today.....back to wind, cloud, rain....the usual! :(

last min plan to visit scotland karen but enjoyed it and luckerly seem to miss rain wherever we went till wed teatime when it hammered down lol,
bad here to today and more flatterned flowers :o((

We've had some warm sunshine again today...but now it's getting very windy out there and very grey clouds gathering. Where did you visit then...any of my favourite spots?

Lovely sunny blog Karen, a great idea to lift all our gardening spirits :-))

I think my gardening spirits are sunk Troddles! ;)