Friday Flowers

Sorry you will have to wait until next week for my tales of Chelsea Flower Show, suffice it to say that although my feet have never hurt so much, and I have never been so tired I loved every minute of it.
So for this week more flowers from my garden.........

These single roses are from a large sprawling bush in my front garden, it is called Rosa Nevada and quite honestly it is the only rose that has survived in my garden. So I just leave it alone and every year enjoy its fabulous display.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend, hasn't the sunshine been wonderful?
Georgie

Friday Flowers

Just when I thought there was nothing left in the garden to photograph for Friday Flowers out came the Rhododendron that grows in a very large pot in the courtyard just outside my workroom doors.
When I left on Thursday afternoon for London and the weekend's miniatures show, one bud was barely open. Returning on Monday morning the bush was covered in showy white flowers tinged with pink, incredible as I thought it didn't have many flowers this year.

On a completely different tack isn't it amazing where life can lead us? From having an Etsy shop selling vintage jewellery, medals and curiosities to writing this blog and taking the photographs for Friday Flowers, I now find that I'm a "real" photographer with a press accreditation to take photographs at Chelsea Flower Show. To say I am delighted, stunned and excited is an understatement!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, on Sunday I'll be at Chelsea Flower Show for the first day of my new adventure!!!!
Georgie

Friday Flowers

My garden has a haze of blue in the flowerbeds at the moment, Forget me nots seed themselves so prolifically that even if I think I have pulled them all up before they set seed, up they come again the following year. And I'm delighted that they do, so pretty as a blue mist, even prettier close up.

The little chunky blue pottery bottles are from the 1920s-30s and believe it or not were used to hold Ronux furniture polish, so much nicer than today's spray cans.

Just a note about the white jug from last week, I bought it in Homebase (a large home and garden diy store for those of you not in England) about five years ago, it wasn't very expensive but I loved the shape and it has become one of my favourite flower containers.
I'm up in London this weekend exhibiting at the Kensington Dolls House Festival....wish me luck!

Have a lovely weekend
Georgie

Friday Flowers

More flowers from my garden! Inbetween heavy showers I managed to go down the garden and cut a few sprays of Lilac to fill my favourite white jug.

Why have I never done this before? The smell is intoxicating and fills the room, the beauty in the detail of the flowers is wonderful.

Rain permitting I'm on the prowl for next week's subject!



I heard my first Cuckoo yesterday afternoon, a real sound of an English summer.....if only the weather would co-operate.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Georgie

Friday Flowers

From hosepipe bans and record temperatures in March that had us all thinking that summer had come ridiculously early. To days of heavy showers, thunderstorms and the need to wear those winter sweaters again in April. Such are the joys of the British weather!!

But Nature just gets on with it regardless and the Crab Apple tree in my front garden is thick with beautiful blossom. I cut a few sprays to share them with you before the rain knocked all the petals to the ground.

Though summer must be on its way because I saw my first Swift on Wednesday, of our summer visitors they are the last to arrive and the first to leave. These amazing birds thrill me with their aeronautical displays and the fact that they have flown all the way from Africa to grace us with their presence for the summer.

I hope you all have a lovely and sunny weekend!
Georgie

Friday Flowers

My dear friend Michelle recently returned from a visit to Keukenhof in Holland to see the fields of tulips. In one of the pavillions were displays of many different flowers and there she saw an interesting container holding tete a tete daffodils. She told me that Friday Flowers came immediately to mind and she bought it for me as a present.
So here it is, the size of my palm, very tactile with a pattern of holes on the top, glazed in blue and green which is almost iridescent in places. Thank you Michelle, I love it.

Having no little daffodils, I tried it with Fritillarias, I thought their wiry delicate stems looked lovely growing out of this little ceramic gem.

Next time I'm going to use shorter stemmed flowers in all the holes to give it an entirely different look.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, I'm going on a photography course this Saturday.....very excited!!

Georgie

Friday Flowers

Auriculas, adored by the Victorian gardener who made special stands for them to protect their flowers from the rain, these were called Theatres.

There is one grower who every year at Chelsea Flower Show has a tiered stand covered in black velvet and each beautiful plant in its pot is framed by an ornate gold frame......truly a work of art.
I love their little floury faces and the deepest purple almost black petals of this little beauty.

Hope you have a lovely weekend, I'm off to teach a miniatures workshop on Saturday, perhaps someone will choose the Auriculas.

Georgie