Garden on 27th May - starting to colour-up!

Just a few shots in the garden taken hastily with no time to fiddle with! Things are starti ng!

Arun Lily in my garden

Revd Charles Karunaratna gave Yvonne a clump of Arun Lily some 15 years or so ago. Yvonne planted it
near the kitchen door so that she could see the blooms whilst working there. It took a year or three for any bloms to appear - but now - well!
I went into the garden this morning just after 7am to take the attached shots in the early morning sun. I counted some 33 blooms - the photographs only capture just a few of these each time. Last year we had some 60 blooms at one time and I believe we may surpass that number this year. Sadly, they will be gone by the time we have the Children's Society Coffee Morning on Saturday 6th August in the garden.
Note the fly in the fourth shot - on the lily at the left!

Summer front gardens in Aldborough Hatch

Many front gardens in Redbridge are now car parks - concreted over to accommodate the two, three, four or even five cars per household. But some gardens are retained, whilst others may be concreted, but still have space for a few blooms, window boxes or hanging baskets. A ten minute walk in Newbury Park produced the photographs here. Summer has arrived!

Recent shots of St. Paul's Cathedral

Some recent shots of St. Paul's Cathedral - all of which I am making into Notelets for sale on my stall at the Craft Market as part of the St. Peter;s Flower Festival on Saturday and Sunday 25th and 26th June. Hope to see you there!

The may is out - S pring is here and summer not far behind

Photographed in Hainault Forest on Sunday 15th May on my way to Heather and Rob's for lunch. The last shot was in a front garden on Whalebone Lane. You could be forgiven for thinking you were in the depth of the contryside instead in the London Borough of Redbridge!

The garden is getting there!

I have been in the garden for a few hours and am now relaxing at the computer!

The front ranch-style fence celebrates its 50th birthday this year. Graham was two when it was constucted with brass screws and concrete posts. A friend walking by as I painted it with preservative this morning in the cool from 8.30am commented: "I would not worry about replacing any of the wood - it will see you out!" I guess he is right for I do paint it with preservative each year.

I started putting out some bedding plants - trailing verbena in the fence troughs - and tied uyp the clematis on the arch-thing. Yvonne's rose is in bud and the first lilies are poking through and bursting open near the kitchen door.