AFTER THE RAIN, THE SUN.

I'm so glad you got your camera out! WOW! Its beautiful! i know what you mean about being overwhelmed by this kind of thing..:)

Hi Pixi, glad you do...Sticki would probably think I was being...romantic lol. I've just put a pic on at the top which I left off by mistake duh:-)

Very lovely pictures. You have such a nice garden.

beautifull pics BA and does make a good pic when wet then sun, your garden is so pretty :o))

Lovely pics, lovely garden, and starting to have the look of autumn about it.

Thanks Alex, still lots to do yet, but I don't show that bit:-)

Thanks Sandra, I love the difference that different natural light makes don't you:-))

Thanks Cinders, yes..soon be autumn..where does the time go?:-)

ooooooo no not autum lol ................... still summer .
lovely garden , loads of colour ! very pretty

What a gorgeous garden you have, I also love it when the sun comes out after the rain and the steam rises off the paths, its magical, love your pond and your water feature is fab, you have designe'd your garden beautifully, all that colour as well, sigh, very, very pretty, love it..

Lol cristina it was Cinderellas fault, she mentioned Autumn:-)

Thanks Ydd, I pinched loads of ideas off here for the makeover and Louis helped too. The hard work and the idea of a circular path to join up the main circle and the corner circle was makeover Trevs idea. I do love it, I see the pond from my kitchen window:-)

Lovely garden BA, love the pond in fact love it all .....

BA what's the tall plant in the picture above sun dial just behind the blue plant, the picture between the sun dial and alstromaria's. ????

Hi Stripes, is it the green shrub hung with pods? if so it's colutea arborescens which has yellow pealike flowers for a long time which are followed by what I think look like pretty lanterns, very pale green at first, then turning gradually to mahogony colour later in year. This is the first year it's looked so good as it has been very cruelly treated in the past. If you look at my blog Lovely Garish Garde June you'll see a better pic of it and some flowers as well as pods. It's commonly called the bladder senna, awful name.:-))

Thank's BA will look later many thanks for that.....

Looks really smashing BA, cant understand how you can go on about how small it is...it looks huge!

Wow Ba you are such a clever gardener, your garden looks just fabulous and I love that pond.

\0/ Hi Tet, it is a funny shape and we angled it into the corner if that makes sense? It's only about 52'ish (15-16 mts) long x 30'ish (9.2ish mts). The pond is looking good now, but water still green, apparently the fish (3) quite like it that way and the frogs couldn't care less:-)

Morning BA!!

\0/ Hi Sticki, it's nice to be called a clever anything, even wrongly.....it's the plants wot dun it! It's freezing here today, not a bit like August:-(

no i wasnt wrong (for once!) you are clever in the planting ~ fooled tet didnt you??
i think the trick of clever planters like you - is to fool the person in the garden into thinking they are in a bigger space ~ thats very clever.

Has anyone noticed unseasonal blooming? I saw a magnolia with flowers yesterday and my geum rivale is flowering again , ditto my clem macropetala, its been flowering for weeks. One of my skimmia magic marlot has flowers too!:-))

Lovely photos Ba ;o))

Thanks Annella:-))

your garden is so beautiful, the colors mix in just right

Thank you Pondlady:-)

Now dont get your hopes up BA, Carol Klein isnt leaving Gardener's World anytime soon!!!
We saw a magnolia with flowers on in Oxford, but we havent had any ..oooh I tell a lie....our Choisya is blooming again!

It is odd isn't it:-) I like Carol Klein so wouldn't want her jog lol:-)

I wouldnt mind her energy and half her garden space!

I meant to say job lol, as for jog I wouldn't mind being so energetic...if only:-)

You have captured such great images here, Ba, and the lighting and setting is romantic...I just can't get enough of your garden, my friend..Wish that mine looked this good! Another magical blog!\0/x

Thanks Flori, I only photograph the bits that look good lol, it's not looking so good now:-)

Autumn is not always kind to plants as they pass their best. Hope the high winds that we have been having recently, haven't done too much damage. I think that I may have lost a metal arch over here..sob..

Have you tried the kiss of life Flori? hope all is not lost:-)

I might get rust!!! Let alone black spot and mildew...lol

Lol Flori, you could put a hankie over your mouth, I've seen that on the tele:-)

What..and ruin me lippy??????LOL!

Ok you win ...only trying to help lol:-)