Saturday, December 31, 2011

A year in pictures

January

IMG_7577 Christmas Box (Sarcococca), placed by the front door, so it is easy to remember to bend down and smell its glorious fragrance on a dark winter day.

February

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Iris ‘Katharine Hodgkin’ – perfection in miniature. Well worth spending 15 minutes getting cold knees to admire her.

March

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Spring is here – cold knees again, but for a blast of golden sunshine.

April

Orange tips

Early sunshine brings out the butterflies. In this case, mating orange-tips.

May

Meconopsis blue

Normal weather resumes, dampening the petals (but not the brilliant colour)  of the beautiful Meconopsis.

June

Astrantia I spent some of May and June playing with the camera, learning about depth of field.

July

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As always, July brings bright colours to the ‘late summer border’ (sounds considerably grander than it is!)

August

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Rhapsody in blue – the hard-working and beautiful Aster x frikartii ‘Monch’ is a star in the front garden, starting in late July and going on until the end of September.

September

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Almost as beautiful as a flower in the garden – the garden spider. I wish I was as keen on their cousins, the house spider – as it’s around September that these monstrous beasties make themselves known in the house.

October

Red Admiral

What better advert is there for allowing ivy to grow in your garden? A red admiral enjoying some late October sun.

November

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Early November sees the brilliant colours of witch hazel leaves shine through the dull days.

December

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A New Year’s Eve rose – Tess of the D’Urbervilles.

3 comments:

Anna said...

Enjoyed your pictorial round up of the year HM with the exception of September:) A couple of roses still hanging on in my garden too - must be a first. May the new year treat you and those that you love kindly and may all that graces your garden flourish xxx

scottweberpdx said...

Beautiful, I love these end-of-year posts...happy new year!

Fia said...

Lovely pictures from the past year!
Hop you will have a great 2012!