Looking Back on Some June Blooms

Summer is here.

June has come and gone and summer holidays are close.

June was a busy month, when I was away, learning new things and when I returned, at the office and at home.

June also came with the roses's blooming peak. It was such a delight!

With so many things to do however, I failed to photograph them often enough.

I do have a few photos that show a part of this display.

 

Here's Brother Cadfael, such a great rose with an amazing fragrance.

This tiny white one with buds tinged of pink I suspect it's the Aspirin rose.

 

Here's a new addition to my garden - Jude the Obscure. It may well be the rose with the strongest fragrance in my garden although Lady Emma Hamilton is a strong competitor.

And speaking of Lady Emma, here're a few of her beautiful blooms.

She's such a perfect rose. Probably my very favourite ... oh, that's such a hard decision to make!

 

 

This is Artemis (Tantau) and it's very healty and it gives these smallish blooms of a very nice shape.

Alas, there is no fragrance and the spent blooms linger on and look ugly and ruin the overall aspect of this rose.

Near Brother Cadfeal, there is a combo of blues and pinks and whites. You can't see the pink cosmos here, but you can see geranium Rozanne and the gorgeous lavender.

These poppies are also planted by the Brother Cadfael rose bush. It's an annual poppy, partly self seeding, partly from seeds I collect and spread around.

I think it looks pretty fab :)

And this is the same poppy, taken from down by the grass and looking at a sunset