Sissinghurst after the rain

Typically a bank holiday weekend means rain & true to form a family trip to Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst Castle & gardens began with a heavy downpour. Luckily the rain held off for the rest of our visit & we got to enjoy these beautiful rambling gardens, which shun rigid planting schemes.

Here a a few of my favourite pics...

I'll leave you with a quote from Vita on one of my favourite flowers, the rose.

"Sissinghurst lent itself kindly to their untidy, lavish habit; there was space a plenty with the walls to frame their exuberance. Roses may be found growing in a jungle, sprawling, intertwining, barely tamed & foaming in an unorthodox way"

Glorious gardening...

During this glorious weather I love nothing more than pottering in our garden. I can easily lose an entire Saturday pruning & shuffling pots around. I find it immensely relaxing & love opening the back door each morning to see the latest flowers that have come into bloom. I'm also obsessed with taking photos of these developments. For those of you who are not flora & fauna inclined,  look away now...

I better go & check today's developments, there are some roses about to come into flower...

The amateur gardener...

I've surprised myself over the last 5 years of having a garden (albeit it an urban container garden) by how much I love pottering about out there. There's something so relaxing, even theraputic about nurturing plants & flowers. 


As a lover of colour, there's nothing more rewarding than standing back & admiring a garden in bloom. 


I happened to be going through my photos recently & stumbled across my archive of garden photos. As the sun has decided to put in an appearance I thought I'd share a few of my favourites with you...