Our weather has gone from cool temperatures with heavy rain last week to high temperatures of 34 degrees Celsius this week. The welcome rain combined with this week’s heat, has resulted in our garden literally bursting into bloom.
My garden
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Thanks for sharing the beauty we won’t see for six months.
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My pleasure, Dan. You have a loooonnngg winter. We only have about 2 1/2 months of cold weather and I had flowers right through. Less, of course, but still flowers.
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Well have about four months with nothing growing – min-Nov to mid-March.
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Beautiful!
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Thank you, Annette.
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Keep those pictures coming, Robbie. We up in the Northern Hemi are drifting toward Winter.
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I know, Jacqui, and I personally hate winter. I love flowers and I am feeling very proud of my fruit trees this year. There is going to be so much jam this year.
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Jam? Did someone say jam? My toast is at the ready.
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You’ll have to wait until December, Liz. That is when Mom and I will make plum jam and peach jam. We may even have blackberries this year.
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Robbie, Your post is a breath of fresh air. The flowers are exquisite! Thank you for sharing the beauty that is found on our planet.xx
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My pleasure, Erika, I’m glad you enjoyed my flowers. I love roses.
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Beautiful vibrant colours Robbie 💜
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Thank you, Willow. I am working quite hard at making the garden nice. I have some good fruit coming too.
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Excellent Robbie, well done you 💜🌹
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Absolutely beautiful. I still have some colour in the garden, but nothing as full of life as yours. Today was slightly windy with a very pleasant temperature enough to entice me to layout there with the dog for a little while.
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That is nice, Danny. Lying outside with a dog is always pleasant. England has the most amazing flowers but for much shorter than here.
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Your flowers are beautiful! I hope you show us more as your summer days come and go.
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Stunning photos, Robbie! Thank you for sharing!
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I am rather delighted my gardening efforts are bearing fruit, Jan. Thanks for visiting.
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Beautiful garden. So needed this right now – we are expecting snow this week. Thanks for sharing!
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Snow! Already, my goodness me. We have only ever had snow once in all my years in Johannesburg. It is hot, hot, hot here now.
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We are always on opposite ends 🙂 We are expecting a drier than usual winter though. We’ve been suffering from drought and the wildfires are still blazing. I’m hoping the snow may help things out a little.
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Lovely flowers! We’re heading into a possible drought… ugh.
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Gorgeous Robbie:)
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Thank you, Denise.
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Your garden is lovely. Ours is a horror show. We are going to just cut it down at the end of the year and maybe next year, we’ll get a bit of rain in the summer.
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I hope so, Marilyn. Gardens bring so much pleasure. My mom is the one with green thumbs. I am just the assistant and chief waterer. The hosepipe and watering cans are to heavy for mom now.
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Very lovely! The same flowers we have here in Spain. Enjoy!
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Thanks Darlene. It is probably a similar climate.
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so lovely. kinda spring! 🙂
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You have a lovely garden, Robbie!
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Thank you, Clive. I do the watering and dragging the hosepipe around. My mom does the loving care of the plants. She is amazing with flowers.
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Good to have someone in the family with that talent. I don’t so much care for plants as kill them!
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Lovely, Robbie! ❤ Thanks for sharing. xo
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I’m glad you liked the flowers, Bette.
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Gorgeous photos Robbie! I have NO green thumb, but the Mexican Sage we have here in Southern California is at its purple peak – literally 3 feet high and five feet across!
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That sounds wonderful, John. My mom is very good at gardening. I am only her helper.
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Heavenly garden. Really beautiful
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Thank you, Bella. We work at it.
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Your work is paying off
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Love them all but especially the roses!
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I am also very fond of roses, Jacquie. That is why we have so many and I make lots of fondant roses too.
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Wonderful colors. Flowers always gladden the heart. (K)
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Thank you, Kerfe. I think so too. Have you ever tried using pressed flowers in your pictures?
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I haven’t, but it’s a great idea. I’ve pressed leaves, but never flowers, but they too would make for an interesting collage.
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Oh yes, I love pressed flowers. I used to make collages like you do and I loved using them.
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You should post some.
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Thank you for the celebration of spring!! Your roses in particular are just splendid.
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Thank you, Liz. Roses are a particular favourite of mine. I make them out of fondant too.
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You’re welcome, Robbie. Your fondant roses do their real-life inspiration proud.
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Great close ups and gorgeous color!
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Thank you, JoAnna. I am enjoying watching the garden change now that I’m working from home.
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Beautiful, Robbie!
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Thank you, Joan. I love spring.
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Oooo some beautiful splashes of colour here Robbie!
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Thank you, Jessica. I am delighted with my fruit trees and flowers this year.
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Exquisite, Robbie! So much beauty in one small space.
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Yes, we are lucky to have our lovely garden, Pete. I wouldn’t gone quite mad without it over the past several months.
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Beautiful colours! Good to hear you have had rain.
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Yes, it is a great relief, Audrey. I hope we get more rain soon. I love it, especially at night.
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Hi Robbie. Your garden is looking beautiful. My roses aren’t doing too well. The Spring rain has made the buds wet and rotten and the heavy wind has blown all the blossoms off my azaleas. I am looking forward to Summer.
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Thank you, Kim. We had one very heavy rainstorm with hail. Fortunately, it didn’t do to much damage especially to the fruit trees.
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So vibrant and beautiful. Thank you for sharing your garden. I can imagine the joy it brings you every day
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I do love the flowers, Micah.
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Wow, those are some amazing flowers.
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What gorgeous flowers and great photos!
Right now, where I live everything has browned with Autumn, so those vibrant colors are especially remarkable.
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Our autumn starts of with great vibrant colours and also slowly fades to dry, dry, dry brown and dirty yellow. I don’t like our winter because it doesn’t rain and the dryness and dust is awful. Is it also dry where you are, Mae?
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No, w definitely ave wet weather. Te only time we get really dry (when the grass starts to brown) is in the summer for one or two months. Otherwise we can have rain anytime throughout the year. And our winters can be snowy. It’s just once the leaves fall and the flowers are gone, things start to look stark and bleak. It’s hard for me to imagine a dry, dusty winter!
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We only get rain here from November to end March [give or take]. Sometimes we have terrible droughts with months of no rain and water restrictions. I like snow and rain.
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I would take snow and rain over drought and water restrictions, too!
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Absolutely gorgeous Robbie. I have flowers on my mum plants, but otherwise everything is dying off for the winter. Thanks for sharing your beautiful plants with us.
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Yes, I heard it was getting quite cold your way. We are just starting to get our very hot weather. It is 30 degrees Celsius here today. My garden is looking lovely now.
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I am looking out at rain and gray. It is only in the single digits here today (9) so I am staying in.
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Well, you can listen to lots of lovely stories. I must admit that I hate cold weather.
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it looks like you have a lovely garden; thanks for sharing some pictures of it…
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My pleasure, Jim. I am spending a lot of time in it lately.
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do you have a place to sit and read in your garden?
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Lovely garden still blooming this time of year. Thanks for sharing the photos
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I was just thinking, today, that the southern hemisphere is about to start summer.
And it looks like your summer is coming in hot! And beautiful.
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It is, but very hot. It seems to get hotter every year which is a bit scary [although expected].
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Beautiful, Robbie.
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Thank you, Norah. I am deriving a lot of pleasure from the garden at the moment.
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That’s good to hear. Spring is a beautiful time of year.
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So pretty – our flowers are finished now, but we had a great season of blooms!
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Yes, you are going into winter and us into [a very hot by the look of things] summer. Thanks Barbara.
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