Too Much Beauty

Ba, you're right, everything does look so beautiful in your garden. I would like to know why your small Roses haven't dried to a crisp as most on my little peach patio rose have done! Thanks for sharing your gorgeous photos ... :o)

What a jolly mix; I love it. I see you have a love for roses. I like the yellow and peach ones particularly. The alstro. is a beauty. I have just moved my 'Indian Summer' because it was disappearing under a shrub rose, so I hope it doesn't sulk and die on me. Probably wasn't the best time to choose..Is that your Ann Folkard I spy?

Thanks Shirley, the peachy yellow ones are flower carpets, a few years old and they have a faint perfume:-)

Hi Anget, I had a load of top soil delivered when I had my makeover in, I think, 200 I'll have to look at my old blogs. The year after I had the topsoil, rather lovely alstromerias appeared. THeir roots are very strange:-) It is Ann Folkard and blushing turtle in front of the Apollo:-)

A free gift then. How fortunate!

I can totally share your joy in the beauty that is all around you. Your garden photos are so lovely and each plant seems to be doing its very best for you.
Keep on enjoying it and keep on appreciating it.

Ba, I've just scrolled through here again and your garden really is looking fabulous ... :o)

(Sighs with envy at the Roses) ...

Anget I've had many free gifts, but normally, I presume, from the birds:-)

Thanks Chris, but I can't help wondering why you won't swap:-)))

Hi Shirley, my roses have done well on the whole. Now as to your above question as to why mine are looking good and your patio roses are dried to a crisp ..... I would suggest watering :-)))))))

BA: my free gifts this year have been from spent compost that I have put onto the borders, only to find unexpected plants popping up that I don't remember planting ('cos I didn't plant them - I threw away the compost too early!!) I now have some lovely candleabra primulas that sprung up. Couldn't remember them at all, then found the spent seed packet from yonks ago.
Love your peach 'flower carpets'.

Ba you are going to get such a cheeky retort from Shirley before the day is out, lol. Your garden looks absolutely lovely, so full and colourful....I am always happy when a plant you think you've lost returns.....

Now look here Ba ... there are some things that just shouldn't be said! Never forget who gave you the recipe for the much-loved Plum cake ... nuff said! :o)

Thanks Lincs and thanks for the warning lol:-)

Lol shirley as if I could. I have passed it on to friends and they love it too. It's a pity you couldn't go into business:-))

Ba, here's a fact that may surprise you . . . that recipe was posted TEN years ago. Now, I wonder just how many of them you have made in that time ... :o))

Is it really so long? That's right I came on here in 2009, so many friends no longer on here and our lovely Yorkie, such a shock. Funny how one thinks of times gone by at the moment. I had a friend visit me today and we sat in the back garden, passed a very pleasant hour. Never stopped talking lol. That's two friends I have met in the last week. We've all been quarantining since early March. If there's no second wave we may get back to some semblance of normality in the next month or so fingers crossed and I'll bake a plum cake to celebrate:-)))

BA your garden is so colourful and it all looks so happy and healthy.

Thanks Waddy, it's a lot of work at times, and watering can take hours, but it's a privilege to have one isn't it:-))

Ba, I miss Yorkshire too, her sharp wit whilst commenting was hilarious at times! I miss Pam too, along with many others. Oh well, folk have their reasons to leave and I appreciate that.

I bet you really enjoyed meeting up with friends in the garden. Let's hope we return to some kind of normality before too long ... :o)

Your garden is lovely B.A. and everything is doing so well and colourful! I love Alstromerias and have just recently bought two more plus one arrived this morning from a very dear friend of mine which I think may be similar to yours.
They also last a few weeks as a cut flower too which is a bonus. I had a lovely Salvia sent to me by Hywel, but sssh..don't tell him as I thought I had brought it with us when we moved, but it was the winter!

Very pretty :)

Absolutely gorgeous

Thanks all, Rose, I think Hywel might know now:-)

I don't remember sending Rose a Salvia … my memory must be failing :D
What salvia is it Rose ?

lovely pictures, your garden looks so full of colour

Thanks Davey, bought a new rose on line, just arrrived.....no idea where I can put it lol:-)

Hahaa!

That'll teach you, we'll all try and find a space by looking through your pics, lol....

Hywel, I can't remember the name but it was when we lived in Laceby and we lived there 5 and a half years, so could be a few years ago when you sent me it! I will have pictures of it from that time on here, but it was a purple one.

How did I miss this Ba??

Just amazing and your title says it all, Too Much Beauty..

How gorgeous it all looks, you have some wonderful plants and they're all flowering away, ten to the dozen, which is a very odd saying, as a dozen is more than 10..:oD
I love the little apricot rose with the Welsh poppies and the little bright pink flower with the grey felt leaves, I have it myself and can't for the life of me (crikey here I go again)
remember it's name..
You've worked hard Ba, and your gorgeous garden is a credit to you (better than a debit) oh my word, must stop this, I'm feeling like Mrs. Tishell from Doc Martin..:-/

And if you'd like a few seeds of a pink with whites edges version of said plant, let me know..

Lol Janey, it's lychnis coronaria (rose campion) great self seeding plant. How's the neck ? Yes I'd like any seeds:-))

That's right! Haha, well I could certainly do with her permanent support right now..lol!
Ok, I'm just drying them, then I'll send them through.

Luvly thanks :-)