Front garden
potted delights
First lily of the valley bloom
The first of the lily of the valley
Welcome new leaves
Shade loving Clivia
New leaves on Mt. Fuji double cherry tree
Eclectic mix in back garden
Succulents planted into recycled guttering to help insulate the studio.
First rose of spring
Fig leaves returning
Barbara Pyett 
Envy – double envy.
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You make me smile Hilary, when I think of the magnificent gardens in England, all of those Azaleas and Rhododendrons, to mention just two! 🙂 ❤
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What beauty, thank you Barbara!
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Thanks Deb, gardening can be so rewarding! 🙂 ❤
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The verbena is gorgeous (I was going to ask what it was). I saw a clivia plant oday, and I wondered why it was planted under a shrub. I love figs, too, but not that keen on fig jam. My roses are nearly ready. You have a real riot of colours and textures happening, Barbara, well planted!
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It’s a constantly changing garden, but at present so many things are flowering or coming into bud. Thanks Christine! Yes, the Clivia is really hardy and a boon if you want something for a shady spot.
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Spring is so renewing in so many ways. Here we’re in autumn and the leaves are just starting to turn. Soon my small garden will look mostly dead and quite sad. My first year here I was quite dismayed when my hydrangeas “died” and really surprised when they came back in spring! LOL and here I don’t have to dig my bulbs up and put them in the crisper for winter! 🙂
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It is good to appreciate how it is in different places… do you still prune your hydrangeas back hard, or do you wait for spring to trim them? Great to leave the bulbs in the ground, I must say I do that here, and that is why they don’t all return!!
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I see the Clivia you mentioned! It is very pretty indeed. Not sure if it is available here but I will check. Also, I am growing a fig this year for the first time. So far, so good. We even got a few figgies this summer. Do you make marvelous things with yours?
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Goodluck with your fig tree Barbara. It’s the birds that attacked our figs, especially in the beginning when there were so few! Last year we had a great crop, enough for them and us.
I like figs ripe and raw, and sometimes served in salads with proscuitto, (cured ham) and fetta.
Very versatile, though I haven’t had enough for fig jam, yet. 🙂
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Oh and don’t forget you can dry figs and macerate them in brandy …. 🙂 and serve with some clotted cream.
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That sounds delicious, shall have to have a go this year trying new things! 🙂
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You have a beautiful garden Barbara! I’d love to have a fig tree! 🙂
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Would a fig grow where you are living HJ?
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I don’t know I’ll find out. 🙂
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… not to mention figs ! 🙂
Ba, your garden is simply heavenly. Who does the hard yakka ? – d’you maybe share it ? Or does the talent lurk in the studio while you slave outdoors ? [grin]
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Chris mows the lawns and I enjoy the garden. Am not consistently in it, but love it when I’m there. Considering we had 22 conifer trees and many palms chopped down when we arrived 8 years ago,(leaving some palms to give height), but everything else we planted! It will only improve as the trees grow. We bought the place because of the sheds!!
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Sounds like an artist, to me ! – all those places to store canvases and paints and stretchers and boxes and … AVRATHANG ! [grin]
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Frightening how much stuff can be stored. I hate to think if we ever did have to move…. I can’t contemplate that. Think we’ll both go feet first, together. Let the kids deal with it!!
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Wow, it’s all lovely but those potted delights look almost unreal. 🙂
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Glad you liked them Sarah! 🙂
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Yes, these are amazing, real-life quality pics… thanks for sharing. 🙂
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These photos were taken with my iPhone, as it seems to take better photos than the camera!
Thanks for your comment Stacy. 🙂
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So beautiful! Thank you, Barbara!
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A pleasure JF, am so pleased you enjoyed them.
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It’s all gorgeous! What are the flowers in the second photo?
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Elaine, The striped flower is a Verbena. The blue flower is the same flower as the very vigorous white flowered creeper I have out the front, that is called Ourisia caespitosa. It is the same but I don’t know if the pale blue has another name. It flowers for months, in fact all year round!
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Oh wow, how fabulous! What an amazing name 🙂
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😀 😀
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