What a difference . . .

I really enjoyed my visit to your lovely colourful garden.
Marjorie

Thank you Marjorie - it's a great time of year, isn't it?

Everything is so colorful and magnificent Sheila, even the view from your kitchen window. Enjoy!

Thanks Julia - yes, you can just see the Cornus behind the Lilac.

Thanks very much Paul - I do enjoy my garden!

Lovely photos Sheila ... I do like the raised bed planting. I noticed many Aquilegias in bloom here today ... need to take out some Forget-me-nots to make space for Cosmos ... think I may leave it a week as the 'blue haze' is so pretty!

Lots of colour in your garden now, what a difference a warm week has made.

Lovely - hope you get chance to sit and enjoy it!

Looks wonderful Sheila. Weather still hot here in the frozen north.

Hopw lovely....and, your Viburnums are unusual and spectacular.

Sheila, I agree, its amazing how the garden comes to life mid May, I'm always pleasantly shocked! I was thinking of you today when I looked at my Viburnum plicatum Mariesii, hoping you would post a pic. How many years was it before yours started to rise upwards? Mine is wide and low at the moment still.
I must check my Viburnum sargentii Onondaga, no flowers yet I don't think.
Always a pleasure seeing your garden Sheila x

Awww, what a lot of lovely comments - thanks so much everyone.

Shirley - snap! I was thinking today that I'm going to have to take out a mass of forget-me-nots, but then decided to wait a week 'cos they're so pretty . . .

Dawn - when I bought my V. plic Mariesii it was fairly mature (nearly dead in fact!), so I didn't have to wait for it to grow upwards. It steadily gets taller and wider each year, but I won't let OH prune it! That's a very kind comment, thank you. x

Thanks Sheila, I will have to be patient then. Just been outside and I cant remember where I planted my V sargenti Onondaga, lol. I will have a proper look tomorrow. I leave my forget me nots too, they are so nice - until they seed everywhere. I dig them up and put them in the wood then.

Your view from the kitchen is beautiful Sheila, very special garden to enjoy your time in.

Many thanks Klahanie . . . it is my sanctuary.