This week the roses have completely proven themselves to be the best thing we ever did, closely followed by the dahlias. What jolly lives we lead! They are seriously fantastic, and have been flowering for over a month with endless, romantic, scented, blush pink, creamy, deep red, burnt umber buttery yellow, exuberant blissfulness. And they are ours! We did put in a lot of muddy cold hours with bare root planting over the winter, and barrowed huge amounts of mulch up hill to plant them, but it was more than worth it. The flowers this year have been more, more, more, than last with sunshine and showers and half an irrigation system that actually works, and hedgerow honeysuckle, grasses, wild roses and jasmine to cheer them on.

We had three weddings this weekend. This was Josie's soft and romantic bouquet, swiftly followed by Laura's washed-out-sunflower-showcase bouquet, and Anna's bright and warm bouquet and her bridesmaids too. Phew! Those gestural giant yellow scabious, wild carrot, heuchera flowers, gaura and Icelandic poppies just made this weekend all the more special. Right now we really, really, love flowers like these.

I kind of fell out with blogging, and photographing flowers and all that for a while, for no particular reason, its all gets a bit humdrum sometimes, and I don't want to scare anyone off (or bore them and myself rigid) with lots of being trite. I think these roses have finally given me back some of the need to show off, because that is all it is really! Lady Emma Hamilton, Buff Beauty, Jude the Obscure, Gentle Hermione? Prove yourself girls. These flowers really deserve some showtime, and there is nothing wrong with a bit of drink-me-in photography is there not? Look! More...

Marvelous roses, annoying annuals, and lots of white fluffy delphiniums, dahlias, scabious, snaps, astrantias, for whites in differing textures in-between. Finished with Silk and Willow's unrivaled and gorgeous plant dyed silk ribbons. Get into the groove ...

PS Bulb catalogues just arrived for 2015...