Your photos of N. Thalia are beautiful @B3! Mine returned this year after hiding last year, a welcome sight! This is a late end of season purchase, planted in mid-November, N. Topolino. It has creamy white petals and a lemon-yellow cup. It's quite dainty as you can see from the third composite shot:
@pitter-patter I love all of your pictures/flowers except for the Omphalodes, which I find slightly disturbing, artificial. It's a hard to explain feeling.
We have had two beautiful days with 14 degrees C and sunshine most of the time. While working in the garden, I found time to sit down on the bench and just enjoy. There was a hustle and bustle above me in the Cherry tree. I took the tele lens as I always do once a year, when the Cherry tree flowers.
This is the second Peacock I have seen so far.
The Cherry tree has got many flowers this year and they must feel like being in heaven.
I love are the Diacentra plants. I prefer the red, OH the Alba which also just start to appear.
I'm fascinated by young evolving fern leaves. This one starts with brown leaves. I still remember that visitor who said "they are dried out and need to be cut down".
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This is the second Peacock I have seen so far.
The Cherry tree has got many flowers this year and they must feel like being in heaven.
I love are the Diacentra plants. I prefer the red, OH the Alba which also just start to appear.
I'm fascinated by young evolving fern leaves. This one starts with brown leaves. I still remember that visitor who said "they are dried out and need to be cut down".
I ♥ my garden.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/07/uk-hopes-to-emulate-japan-with-cherry-blossom-tourism-plans