Fantastic Flowering

Another week of rain warm days and cold nights. Everything is growing very fast including the plants grown from seed in the greenhouse. I will have to wait a couple more weeks to avoid the frosts before I can plant them out. I have planted out the cabbages and cauliflowers. I have spent several days weeding flowerbeds and under the fruit trees. Yesterday I sowed a bed of wild flowers and a bed of calendulas and poppies.

The dandelions are now gracing the verges.

An army of golden spiky discs

Such an intense yellow.

Vivid acid yellow

Dainty Welsh poppies are in bloom. They love to open their petals to full sunshine and close up at night.

Fragile beauty

The aubretia is looking very striking.

A purple cascade

The rhubarb and cardoon are responding to the manure feed.

Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb

The strawberry plants are in flower.

We will know that summer is here when there are strawberries to eat

We have cut back the Autumn raspberries and applied a liberal dose of manure.

In a season the raspberries grow to the top of the posts

The aconites love the sunshine and only open on sunny days.

Starry, starry white

My red rhododendron is in flower. 

Very frost sensitive

I have been dead heading the daffodils.

A stew of daffodil heads

On a trip to Skipton I saw the converted former water tower that has been featured on Grand designs.

A glass viewing tower on the top. Situated next to Skipton station

Yarn bombing in Skipton.

Spinning a yarn

How to brighten up a fence

What type of shop is this?

Not any old cobblers

Shoes from a former era.

Do we have your size?

A selection of old fashioned sweets. 

Tasty

Can you see your favourite.

I love the designs on the tins

Plastic strips on a maize field look like a silver lake.

 A plastic lake

Rust in many guises.

All these objects have been dug up or found in the Artful Garden