Ruby&Ruch

Feels like spring is here.

A few photos from the garden this morning.

These daffs are in “Audrey’s garden” named for John’s mum.  Full of white roses, for Yorkshire.
The grape hyacinths with their lovely pale frill at the bottom of the bells,(below) are planted at the base of a fig tree ‘Rouge de Bordeaux’ (apt) that John’s sister, Ann and her husband gave us as a wedding present. The figs have a really beautiful taste.  

This is peach blossom, for those flat white peaches you get in summer.  We had them every day on honeymoon in Nimes. The tree is in the gravel garden that we are putting together, inspired by Beth Chatto.  If only we could afford more gravel! 

The irises have got very congested and are about to be moved into the iris bed we are making in the Japanese garden, the climbing rose on the left is a gorgeous deep deep red, variety unknown, and the one hardly seen on the right is a rambler ‘Wedding Day’ that my mum and dad got us for Christmas.  We are going to train it around the front door.   We also got ‘kiftsgate’ – going over a pergola (as yet not made/bought) at the entrance to the potager, ‘veichenblau’ – going along the front fence, and a Rosa Spinissismosa (probably spelt that wrong) – in the cardoon border by the potager. 

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