Sunday in the garden with Sheila . .

That is a lovely Petunia Sheila.

Thanks Linda . . I wouldn't normally choose such a pale colour, but the scent swayed me :)

all looking good

Some beautiful flowers there Sheila I esp: like the concrete dish very nice, I got a viburnum carlcephalum last week lovely scent.

Thank you Brian and Julia for your kind comments; thank you Vic - I've had that dish forever, and have never managed to find another like it :)

A lovely combination, dish as well.

Thanks Feverfew :)

Lovely Sheila. We've had sunshine, a cool breeze and some heavy downpours today! Hope it doesnt destroy all my apple blossom.

You have a brilliant garden and that dough bowl display is ingenious. Is that a dough bowl?

Fabulous flowers Sheila. Where did you get the dwarf Jacaranda? Do you know how big it will get? Love the lilac, and the nemesia too.

Thank you Karen - good luck with the blossom.

Thanks very much Paul - what is a dough bowl please?!

Thank you Sue - to my astonishment, I grew the Jacaranda from seed, and gave away the other four! In a pot, I doubt it will get above 15".

the very last picture. Looks like a dough bowl used for that display. I could be wrong

The shape looks a little odd in the pic - it's a solid concrete dish, circular, with a diameter of 60cm (2ft).

oh ok, my bad.

Not surprised you were astonished Sheila - what a great achievement! All you need now is some miniature flowers...

No worries Bathgate . . .

Thanks Sue - I'd been hoping to grow a Jacaranda for years, so this one will be carefully cherished!

I do love the White Lilacs ....I can almost smell it.
Does your Snowball Viburnum suffer with black fly Sheila?? I had two customers with one in the past and both suffered terribly !

Lovely photos, Sheila! I am so pleased to see the aquilegia doing well. You are obviously a whizz with seeds. I'm awful ?!

Thanks Paul . . . yes, in the previous 2 years that Viburnum suffered so badly from blackfly that I sprayed it and then in desperation decided it 'had to go'. So I cut it RIGHT back to a stump of about 15" and then amazingly this year it's decided to grow and be healthy!

Thank you Susanne: I've only succeeded with seeds for the last year or two, discovering that a mix of GrowSure 'seed and cutting' compost mixed with Vermiculite seems to work :)

Love it all Sheila, especially that lovely soft yellow Osteospermum. I am trying hard this year to have plants in shades of yellow for OH, his colour blindness means yellow is a good strong colour for him to appreciate! Pointless planting anything red as he cannot see it. :o(

Thanks Shirley - aww, that's hard for your OH :(

Poppies, Pyracantha & Holly berries all just look like 'shapes' to him! I cannot imagine being unable to see a field of bright red Poppies .....

That makes me appreciate my reasonable vision even more Shirley . . .

Lovely to wander round your garden although, as usual, I'm a bit late, I love your white lilac, beautiful.

Thank you Gee - good to see you :)