Tuesday, 2 November 2021

Sweet peas in November.. and other summer flowers

Now that the wedding is almost a distant memory and I can return to thoughts of gardening it's hard to believe that it is in fact November. I've just had a wander around my garden to see what is flowering out there and was delighted to see more flowers on my beautiful blue salvia


The purple sweet peas are still flowering their little socks off


Salvia 'Hot Lips' is looking stunning and is smothered in flowers


Antirrhinums of all colours are dotted around the garden. This pink one is gorgeous.


The sweet peas below are actually a bright candy pink and the whole obelisk is smothered in them


Yellow and red dwarf wallflowers are lighting up a little flower bed


I think these are diascia but please correct me if I'm wrong


A white gladioli has just opened and there's another in bud waiting to surprise me.


The roses have the most incredible fragrance.


And that's without  counting the viola and winter pansies that are dotted around the garden. It all looks pretty colourful out there and will make the winter feel a bit shorter if they continue flowering for a while longer. With a bit of luck spring might come early next year after we had such a long cold winter this year


4 comments:

  1. I love Hot Lips; they grow well up here in the mountains. Your flowers are gorgeous!

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    1. Thank you. I'm hoping to get a magenta version next

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  2. Wow! How lucky you are to still have flowers growing! Makes it nice to see a little colour in the garden at this time of year.

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