rainbow

It's been a week of sunshine and showers.
Some of them hail showers.
But I haven't seen a single rainbow.
I went hunting for one in my garden instead.

and learnt that I don't have any orange.

green

rain is lashing down outside and the garden is drinking it up.

as the plants become wetter and wetter the air is filled with scent.

not a heady floral, or a woody overtone, but more of a colour.

green.
it smells green.
chlorophyll.
oxygen.

fresh and minty.

an abundance of roses

none of these roses are mine.

all of them are utterly delightful.

a gardener was dead heading them, and gave me an armful of petals to take home and dry.

my bag has never smelt so amazing, and I felt like a princess as I scattered rose petals whenever I went to get out my purse, or my keys.

This one looked like tissue paper,

and this one scrambled over a huge arbour, creating a curtain over white petals.

As the sun warmed them, the intense perfumed scent drifted through the air,

and as I wandered through them I wondered if the warm sun, the intoxicating scent and the magical colours could be captured and saved up for colder, wetter greyer days.

come November, or maybe mid February I shall come back here, and check, and then I'll let you know.

purple sensation in the cherry orchard

I love Alliums.

The confidence of the balls of colour popping out like fireworks from the undergrowth never fails to make me smile.

I'm not very good at growing them though, which is why I am impossibly happy to see them newly underplanted in the cherry orchard of the Alnwick Garden.

50,000 of them!

white

frothy white clouds

soft white tinted with the faintest hint of pink

white tutus balancing on long legs

petals opening into the sunlight

tiny white splashes in a sea of green

blossom perfection

petals that resemble little stick people, round body, large head, long arms, short legs.

fireworks of white shooting up into the sky.

I wander round the sea of white and wonder why we need any other colours at all.

lavender and lilac

lavender

lilac

both a colour and a flower.

but most mportant both calm and soothing.

a multitude of tulips

oh so many tulips

in oh so many colours

is this my favourite?

or this?

there are too many to choose from.

dusty pastels

blowsy petals

slender beauties

frilly petticoats

buds hiding their true colours

I only know I wish these were all in My garden, and not in someone elses...........

are you a tulip lover?

what colour do you like best?

anemones

soft almost feathered petals 

uncurl to show hidden depths of darkness

which open out in the sun

and enchant me.