A riot of colour in the summer border.

Finished! Photography difficult in this winter light, every time I have taken a photo the colours change. The top one better in the greens- close up has gone a little blue. It is the Newark Park garden border by the crinkle-crankle wall (yes that is a real thing!) by the lake. Yellow daisies, day lilies and orange dahlias with chocolate colour leaves.

When bees are a buzzing.....

Now for something entirely different! This week has been wet,wet, wet. The light is beginning to improve however and the first daffodils are in the shops. £1 a bunch is the such a promise of Spring to come and such a good pounds worth of joy. The snowdrops are up and the first primrose has flowered. The birds have begun to sing in the mornings when I am getting up. I am working on the final piece for the exhibition - a summer border at Newark Park. I made the small sketches on a hot day in July. You remember those? Bees a buzzing and sun hats firmly on? I have to remind my chilblains about those days to come. I am revelling in the colours. Normally I work in the season as it happens but maybe with this it will contain a longing for the warmth and colour.