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July 27, 2016

My sunflowers mean summer is really here

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Pretty certain I didn't plant this Spring Green tulip in the garden with the Ballerina, Queen of Night and Purple Prince combination, but I'm glad it's here. What a beautiful flower!

Fascinating morning @cubotanicgarden exploring Jane Austen's use of the Regency Landscape in her novels. Garden highlights included the fritillaries, mauve Felicia amelloides and the rosemary trial beds in the sunshine.

Spring bedding is feeling hot, hot, hot...

Ash flowers in the April sunshine 🌞

The most radiant of my tulips - dreamy, creamy Purissima.

Beautiful wing markings on this bee fly on the buddleja.

Behind me the kids are playing on the zipwire and in front, in a wedge of woodland, I can smell fox and see a goldcrest, indistinct in the ivy, but its jizz gives it away. Then the tenative notes of the chiffchaff - my first of the year. It's only a nod to spring; my fingers are still cold and stiff, the sky remains murky. But change is in the air and the chiffchaff is louder now.

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