Garden and Family

Slipping a garden and family post in between holiday escapades

dear little Oliver is now 5 (hard to believe)

Master of the House

Here we see him in the play house that Alan and I and our son bought him for his birthday

We kept telling 2 year old Rebekah that it was Oliver's present to which she kept replying 'Oliver must share, share, share'

Oliver's Birthday Card

and on our previous visit these two little darlings offered to help clean  up their family room

They wiped the dining room floor tiles with anti-bacterial cloths and then proceeded to use the same cloths to clean the TV screen!

At least their heart was in the right place

August is the time when I begin to get a little bored with the garden

The early colour has gone, or is beginning to go over and it is not yet time for the late or Autumn flowering stuff

so lets have a look at what there is just now

I love this two coloured Spirea

I bought it for £1 in a market sale quite some years ago

I have a number of Thymes but like this one by the pond best

The Grace smoke bush never fails but likes to take over

The above two were taken Sunday evening when arriving back from another whole day walking the streets of London

many pictures from this day eventually

All I wanted to do was sit in the shade and recover 

I love this Itea Ilicifolia

It is taking a long time to establish itself and it is quite rare

The only place I have ever seen it was where I bought it

at Christopher Lloyds gardens at Dixter

Some of the new roses that I planted out front last November to replace the ones we used to have there

Well goodbye Tree

It had to go having become quite diseased

Will be gracing  daughter Janie's open fire come the winter

Having had a number of days out recently I have so, so many photos to post but will be back to recent holiday ones in next post