Delicious scents....

I just love delicious scents both in my home and in my garden...

Here is the daphne bush that was in an earlier post at beginning of July - boy has it grown and the flowers are plentiful and smell delicious. It has definitely been worth the wait to see this plant flowering.

We have had several days of continual rain and wind and with the sun shining today it is a perfect opportunity to be outside letting the sunshine and fresh air invigorate everything while giving us the opportunity to take stock of how things are doing.

This hyacinth is filling the kitchen and living room with its beautiful scent. These are bulbs that I bought last year and I have done absolutely nothing to them since then apart from bring them inside when I saw that they were starting to flower.

I finally pruned our standard roses this morning, I have been looking at them and wanting to do it for a few weeks, so it is now done. I will have a tidy up in the garden beds around them and feed them. There are three standards and the one in the middle isn't doing as well as the other two, I suspect due to there being less plants around the base of that one which means that the roots are more exposed to the sun and the wind - and possibly the cats. I have some annuals that I will plant around it to give it a little more protection and see how much of a difference that makes.

Until next time - happy gardening everyone 

Donna-Maree