Raindrops keep falling.....

it isn't raining here---yet ---but maybe after looking at your lovely photo's I'll not mind too much and look around too, bye the way your cammelias are gorgeous--mine are still tight buds :0)

Smashing photo`s Dd.....

ITs been raining here since 2pm and havn't stopped, wish i could get out in garden but, Rain stopped play.

Lovely photos Dd ... we've had a good day out in the garden ,it's just started raining here ......

Heavy drizzly rain most of the day here. After reading your blog I'm trying to think of each drop as a jewel but failing miserably! Must admit you have taken some fantastic photos there - I must think more positively :)

we are due rain this weekend dotty but its just what our plants need to help them pop back up for summer, as long as its not on going for weeks on end lol, your plants are coming up lovely, mine doing ok to :o)

Lovely Camellias there Dotty! Pouring down here since 3:00, but it was sunny this morning and I was out pricking out seedlings and dividing clumps of snowdrops....at least I got something done before it started!!

Wonderful blog and photos Dd,must remember to think of rain as the downpouring of jewels rather than just soggy and damp lol :o))

It shows that raindrops can be very beautiful Dotty which is some consolation as its been pouring down all afternoon! :o)

Brilliant photos Dots, you got some gorgeous plants there.

Beautiful exquisite colours - superb photography - the first six stun one with the forever contrasting range of greens and blue-greens and purples - then the two beautiful pink flowers - followed by a beautiful group of turquoise and grey-blue.... it all adds up to my favourite blog ever for sheer colour delight.
The jewels give the extra something for the otherwise somewhat plain photos 10 and 11.
Perfection !

Lovely, lovely photos! (My garden said 'thanks for the rain'!)

I'm chuffed that someone else loves rain caught on plants as much as I do! Great blog - particularly love the striped camellia. A few more weeks and the alchemilla will be good enough to start catching the rain! No rain here, so still have empty butts! It was blowing a gale today but not as cold as I expected.

Thanks to all for your very kind comments, Gurthbruins I am so pleased you enjoyed the blog, I am starting to enjoy my camera a lot more now that I can understand it!! Karen you are right about alchemilla looks amazing in the rain......I just hope the rain knows when to stop......

The tulip looks like a bromeliad with its reservoir!

Lovely photos Dd. Your camelia is so beautiful, and nice and early.

Its raining today here.

Lol Wagger, thanks Mad, Clarice better day tomorrow apparently!!

Very original blog, Dd! I loved the photos of the raindrops on the leaves! I'd never thought of them as jewels before but I have often admired them!

It's been raining on & off almost the whole day here.

Nice to see the rain focused as jewels, its poured down here all day. My camelia has got a lot of catching up to do, its still in tight bud, so it was nice to be reminded of whats to come.

Thanks Balcony, it is just one way to cope with the rain........Stroller perhaps yours is a later variety, ours were late this year.

You really are getting to be an expert at this photography malarky Dotty, lovely blog:-)

Lol Bornagain.....glad you liked the blog...one aims to please!!!

I have a deep red Camellia on the balcony my wife bought me last year for my birthday. I say dark red for the photo on the box the plant came in but I've yet to see a flower open! Having said that there are two buds on the plant but they aren't open yet.

I underplanted the Camellia last year with some Tete-a-Tete daffs that my wife got cheap at the supermarket where she works. They have blossomed very well. It's a mini experiment. The Camellia is in acid compost & is watered, most of the time, with distilled water from the tumble dryer. As I have other Tete-a-Tete daffs growing in normal compost & watered with tap water I wanted to see if there would be any difference. For this first year there has been no difference the bulbs seem to be just as happy in the acid compost as they are in the alkaline!

Clever experiment there Balcony, Camellias can take a while to get established, we had one bought back from Cornwall it has taken 5 years to get it to flower.