Summer weather has well and truly arrived and we can enjoy the developing annual flowers that have been recently planted as well as our late spring/early summer flowering shrubs.

My neighbours Ceanothus is abuzz with bees and I am enjoying the contrast of their blue flowers with the bright orange balls of flower on the Buddleja globosa. This pattern of sun and rain has a potent affect on the development of a garden and keeps the display at this early part of the season in it's prime. It seems it is hard to go wrong in creating a terrific spring display with so many factors on our side.

posted on May 30, 2006