flowers – WrAnTz

Roadtrip

Today, Thursday 28th, we are heading up to Sunset Beach, WA, to visit our rellies, my grandson and his family. And we are looking forward to seeing our three great granddaughters, for the very first time.

We have just pulled in to the roadhouse at Cataby, making a pee stop, where these beautiful flowers are enjoying the sunshine.

It is almost as if they are cheering us along our way.

The WA weather is also behaving itself. The sky is blue and clouds white and fluffy. Not the dark and brooding ones that have filled the skies around Perth for the last few days.

View From The Conservatory

Second flush from the climbing rose and a first for the clematis.

St. Mary’s House

Before all this Covid craziness began, my sisters and I used to get together, two or three times a year. Thursday, a fortnight ago was just such a day. The difference being that this was the first time since mid 2019.

As we live around ninety miles apart our normal routine is to select some historic pile, at roughly the halfway point between our homes.

Most times we will select a location known to us. Not this time. Thursdays choice, St. Mary’s House at Bramber in Sussex, was unknown to any of us. A true mystery house.

St. Mary’s is an historic pilgrim inn (c1450) featuring approximately five acres of beautiful gardens including animal topiary, the ‘Secret’ Garden with original Victorian fruit wall and pineapple pits, a rose garden, King’s Garden, circular English Poetry Garden, Landscape Water Garden and Rural Museum.

Example from the Rose Garden with English Lavender

Not sure what this curved ladder could have been used for.

The weed on this pond gives the illusion of solidity. I turned down the opportunity to test it out.

This path was not suitable for my wife’s wheelchair.

View From The Conservatory

Bloomin Lovely

We’ve had this rose for many years but it has never produced such a dense cluster of flowers.

I wish I could claim that this fabulous display is down to my horticultural genius, but I can’t.

I don’t even know which variety it is.

What I do know is that it makes both Gerry and me very happy.

Aliens !!!

My daughter is currently on holiday in Fuerteventura, the Canary Islands. I for my sins have been tasked with watering her plants. Imagine my horror when I note that her Lupins are looking very sorry for themselves. Suspecting that I had failed the, one and only, task I had been given I gave the plants a closer look.