Some of the garden flowers

Absolutely full of colour - well done! I need to look up Grevillea...........thank you!

Great to know what the stellaria is - we have one self seeded in our border and I was wondering what it was.
Your plants are lovely, particularly the irises, even if they are fleeting. The coffee-coloured one is particularly striking. Do you have a name for it?
Your peacock is a great poser, his colour contrast with the gorse is particularly impressive! Quite the dandy.
I've never seen the variegated strawberry. such a pretty plant.
Thanks for showing.

What a glorious garden you have and it is beautifully looked after.

The favourite flower of mine, which really caught my eye is your brown petalled iris - I think it is lovely.

Great blog, loved your photos.

Your blogs are always interesting and I enjoyed this one too. There are Stitchworts in the hedgerows all around here, and I have some Leucanthemums in my garden. I love them so always keep some in a 'wild' corner.
Your lilacs are beautiful, as are all the others. I've never seen a variegated strawberry. It's very pretty and would look nice with pink flowers. I used to have a green one with pink flowers but it died off.
The mosses are fascinating aren't they :)

Lovely blog, HSG! You have some really pretty colours in your garden. I looked up Cardoon and Stellaria as I hadn’t heard the names. I release the former is the artichoke thistle.

Nice to see Stitchwort in a garden. When our firstborn was two I began to try to teach him wildflower names and this was the first one because the roadsides had lots of it. But he had no interest at all in any kind of plants. And now he has an ecology degree and works doing surveys...
But he still hates daffodils for some reason.
You have some lovely plants there - such a pleasure to look round!

Thanks Sunnydais, of course it has no label but would assume it is Grevillea Banksii, but don't quote me on that! it is hardy and has been outside for a few years now. Bought as a small 'shrublet' in a small pot, the GC were selling small rooted cuttings of the larger shrubs, cheaper, but you have to wait!

I have a great passion for wild flowers Anget, not to the point of mania, but with sorrow that they are all disappearing from the countryside. Big guilt trip when I have to pull up something, but I try to leave as many as possible. We have a field which I am trying to add wild flowers (as well as the over-spill from the front garden) to, a hedge-bottom layer would be great and I have added Campions, Violets, grasses, Lamium as well as bulbs. I had to fence a portion off as though we have Buttercups growing on the field anyway, the ones I transferred had their leaves trimmed by the geese. They also had the tops off most of the others I planted. What with the two geese girls, two chickens and a cockerel who also like to dig things up, the fenced bit was getting desperate!

Thanks for the comment Wildrose, sadly the garden looks better on the photos than in reality. The grass never goes brown from the heat because we are on clay and it's not really grass, mostly buttercup, Selfheal and moss - but looks good from the distance!
The Iris is a lovely colour, I don't know the name sadly. Somewhere I have a box which contains the labels of the plants, I can't leave them out, they get moved around - peacocks and blackbirds are the main culprits, just have to pull them out. The "beautifully looked after" bit has been helped by the lock-down and I am slowly working my way round the various bits of the garden removing weeds, nettles and loads of dead-nettles. More guilt by doing the latter as the bees adore them and after I have dug them up, still fly round looking for them - Oops!

Thanks Linda for your kind comment, I do get a bit carried away when I get round to taking photos and the lock-down does mean I get to read GOY a bit more and add some blogs. So as long as we are all keeping safe, it's not all bad.

Thanks Hywel for saying the blogs are interesting, I try to make them so adding, hopefully, something for everyone. Not sure where the Strawberry came from, I know it sat in a pot on the corner of the Iris bed for a couple of years. I shall keep an eye on it now as (unless the brain is on the blink) I am sure it had pink flowers! Perhaps I had your green one with the pink flowers as well as this one and am confusing the two. If it gets too rampant it will have to go and live up on the field with the other overspill. The Stitchwort can spread as much as it likes and I will be rooting some of it and putting it in various places so it's not an 'eggs in one basket' plant.

Not sure the Cardoon is in the right place Kate! There were two tiny seedling pots bought from the G.C. for 50p pot last year. They got stuffed in there as a warm, sunny spot with the intention of perhaps moving them - not going to happen now! Had to put Cardoon as though it is the artichoke thistle there are so many regional names, it can get confusing. The Stellaria I had to look up as I had always known it as Soldier's Buttons which would have been a name other people might well not know!

Thanks Stera, glad to hear that someone else likes it. Quite honestly unless you knew it was a wild flower it could pass for a cultivated one. It does look decidedly less attractive later, but then so do lots of plants after flowering! My daughter, now 51 (where did that go?) used to get pushed along the country roads on the 6 mile walk to her Grandmothers and we collected wild flowers on the way. By the time we got there she would have a (slightly soggy) bunch of flowers to present. My Son, 31 (re-marriage accounts for him!) was also brought up learning the flowers, trees and bugs and now tells everyone that his Mother knows the name of all the wild flowers - not true by the way, but something must have sunk in! Now your Son has his ecology degree perhaps all that early work did take hold.

lovely amble through your garden lots and lots going on in there, even a bit of wildlife with the peacock, do really like that brownie coloured iris, not very often you see that colour on a flower.