Photo a day....19th April.Cistus.... or as we call them "Paper Roses" ....are blooming already in my garden. I am sure that is a month earlier than last year....!
When we moved here there were fifteen of these around the garden .....most of which fell foul of the back garden re-model when I made my Kitchen Garden. We still have 5, in white and pink. (The roots are a real pig to dig out once they are established, and it is so hard to saw through too!)
posted by lilymarlene @ 5:33 am
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It's scary isn't it.. My rhubarb is ready for eating and we didn't pick our first stalks until well June last year. When I look back to my garden journal from last year we actually had snow and heavy frost in April - hard to believe now!
the garden outside our kitchen window (not ours - we live in flats, and that garden belongs to "upstairs") is full of rhodedendron bushes that flower every spring, beautiful white blooms, which smell absolutely gorgeous - it looks like the bushes have had a heavy snowfall on them, from a distance. They've just started to flower now, another week or so should see them all out - and i checked my diary to see when they flowered last year - May 14th! so you're not alone in noticing the early spring this year.
beautiful rose though - i'm just starting to notice the intricateness of flowers and how they fit together, nature's more subtle beauty, and your photos go a long way towards helping that. thankyou.
We have these, we call them Rock Roses over here!
They are very tough plants and don't need much water at all.
This is lovely. It's not a flower I was familiar with, it appears to be a cross between a poppy and a dog rose. Does it have a fragrance..?
The petals are paper thin.....hence the name. No smell.....and each flower lasts only a day. The bush is quite big and the branches are woody but have no thorns. For more info look here
http://www.rhs.org.uk/whatson/gardens/hydehall/archive/hydehallpom05may.asp
Such a lovely colour!
I was envious of your geranium and now this lovely Cistus! Not only my thumbs that are green...with envy.
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