Flowers - catching them while they are there!

Dark purple and white tulips, bluebells, front garden (27 April 2014)

I need to share some more photos of flowers in our garden... For some of flowers, with wilting petals it's already too late for a good photograph (we are missing some nice yellow and red 'striped' tulips :-() I hope to capture them next year; this year the rain was just a bit too much for them, and I had a window of opportunity to photograph them, but 'only' of about 10 days, but didn't take it. C'est la vie!).

Irises, front garden (27 April 2014)

For most of the irises in our garden the days might be numbered. The Head Gardener does not like them (primarily because their flowers only last for a couple of days, but also because they spread like crazy!), and we hope to do other things with certain parts of our garden. For the stretch above we hope to add a couple of ceanothus thyrsiflorus plants, in order to create a little hedge in the front of the garden. We already have a plant in the back garden, and the HG has taken some cuttings of this 'mother' plant, and is trying to get us baby plants which eventually will start of the hedge in the front garden.

Lower part of the Top (Back) Garden, a red tulip and blue bells (27 April 2014)

This third photo features a red tulip (there are a couple more in that bed which you can't see in this photo), but also a very tall iris coming up from nowhere (we didn't plant them there!), and a lot of foilage of irises - they really spread like mad... So for all of you who think we are criminals to have a genocide of one plant in our garden: there are sooo many irises in various parts of our garden that even my current project of taken 5-8 plants to a long list of 12 people at work won't fully decimate them! In one of my next posts I will show you some lovely flowers on trees which are blooming at the moment.

SG / CHG