Flower Power

What could be more pleasurable than planting out bedding plants in sunshine accompanied by bird song and the heady perfume of May blossom.

The flower border I created last year

A view of the border from the opposite end

The May blossom this year is superb, the country lanes are white corridors and the verges all have dainty white cow parsley fronds that blow in the wind.

Bountiful may blossom

Hawthorn trees bedecked in may blossom

Cow parsley also known as kesh.
 

Danity clusters of white flowers

All that remains of the dandelions that a few weeks ago dominated the verges are the dandelion clocks.

Translucent globes. Blow the dandelion clock. The number of blows to disperse the seed heeds is the time of day

There is a saying 'oak before ash you're in for a splash ash before oak you're in for a soak'. This year the oak tree has come into leaf first so that means we should get very little rain.

A majestic mature oak tree

Classic leaf shapes

The ash tree is just coming into leaf.

Ash leaf buds bursting

Lilacs are bursting into flower and have a gentle perfume. They come in different colours from dark purple to lilac and white.

Lilac coloured lilac

Star shaped florets

Dark purple lilac

I have some pretty aquilegias in my garden that vary in shape and size.

 A fairy bonnet with lovely colour blends 

Spiky purple flowers

The intense red of this poppy is stunning. Look at the detail in the flowers construction.

Poppy power. The poppy flower closes up at night 

The alliums are just coming into flower.

A purple drumstick

I had afternoon tea at the Inn on the Lake on lake Ullswater. This summerhouse is used for wedding photographs.

A summer house with a view to die for

A classic photograph.

The hotel jetty on lake Ullswater

A view of the fells next to the lake.

Looking from the lake towards the fells

Farmers have started to sow maize which they plant under plastic. The mirror fields are now back in view.

Rippling mirrors in the landscape

Crazie Maisie has returned from the health farm. I think she has more curves than she did previously, maybe she ate too many cakes.

Do you not wish you had a figure like mine?

This is the  first wall mounted head that I have made. I have mounted on the wall at my house.

Egyptian man