Sunday 17 August 2008

Time to stop and smell the flowers


My favourite flowers are springing up all over our garden.  The previous owners of our house have planted fresias all over the front garden and our back garden beds.  It's always so lovely smelling the perfume from a posy of fresias.  Their delicate purples with a brush of yellow are so pretty and just keep on flowering.  They seem to last a while in a vase so long as you keep the water up to them, they're very thirsty flowers.  


The boys teachers at school always benefit from a bunch of our fresias and a few lavender flowers thrown in for good measure at this time of year.  The two lavender plants that I moved from large planter boxes have taken off in the sunny corner of the house and am always guaranteed a nice bunch of flowers from them.

2 comments:

Suzi said...

Freesias are my FAVOURITE!!
It's such a darn shame that wild freesias aren't for sale anywhere! I had vases and vases of the purple ones at my wedding and it smelt amazing.

Carli said...

Beautiful - we think alike, taking great pleasure in our gardens :)