May Garden Tour

I've been too busy making curtains and building my website for blogging lately, but I couldn't resist just putting up a few snaps of our garden as it's full to overflowing with colour at the moment. These are my favourite geums and masses of self-seeded aquilegia.

My rose arch in the background, temporarily upstaged by a whole load of early bloomers. It takes some time and a fair bit of calculated neglect to create a garden as messy as this!

Down the garden path, past the barbecue and under the pergola to the back door. What a shame it's a scruffy old UPVC one - I'd really like a wooden stable door. I can dream, dreaming is free.

A bit of utility. Hopefully tomatoes to pick soon.

Some of the wisteria growing around our front door. It smells amazing at the moment and it's also really noisy with the constant hum of bees.

I love roses, especially the old fashioned sort. This is the first to flower. I never spray my roses so the leaves always look a bit tatty by the end of the summer, but they are as tough as old boots and don't seem to mind missing out on chemical pampering.

Finally, Romeo and Juliet, looking suitably romantic.