Here are some details of plants that I found at York Gate garden. The purple flowers are honesty. My grandma used to grow them. They develop fascinating seedheads: flat, round and papery, that make interesting indoor arrangements. I think the butterfly I caught on my photo is either a small white or a large white! (I'm not much good on butterflies!)
I love the way the new growth on the conifers is such a very bright green.
In the small, covered, work area that separates the main garden from the kitchen garden, they'd laid out a series of dried seed heads, old tools and other interesting little things that made good subjects for my camera...
... as did a couple of 'still life' arrangements in the kitchen garden: an old copper kettle with a lovely patina and a large stoneware jar surrounded by ferns.
Lovely flowers and photos.
ReplyDeleteOh that's great to see, honesty flowers, after learning that's the name of the seeds that were given to me for my tree sculpture a few years ago. I'll have to look for some seeds now to grow them.
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful! I love the Spanish bluebells and the teasel heads especially.
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