Flowers by the sea

Cromer, by the Church.

The front garden of the Bed and Breakfast where we stayed.

Flowers in Sheringham.

I'm not really sure if this counts as flowers, these hanging baskets where everywhere.

Cley-next-the-sea

This is a front garden in Cley, I said "wow" when we walked by.



RSPCA Open Garden

This garden opens twice a year in aid of the RSPCA. Due to the weather we have missed it for the last couple of openings at least.

This weekend wasn't looking good either.

However, plants do like the rain, so all was well.

Seed Roof

Isn't this walkway lovely?

I did ask him to pose for me but he wasn't interested.

 The boot is good fun, and makes a great planter.

Summer Flowers and Rain

So far this summer, there has been rather a lot of rain. I'm sure that this time last year I was on my second bottle of sun cream and last year wasn't that sunny either.

Its a good thing for me though, as I'm not all that keen on the sun and much prefer the autumn and winter.

Home grown strawberries from our allotment.

I'm very pleased with the lobelia, this is "home grown" as well

I really hope those hanging baskets fill out soon.

The Obelisk is on its last legs. 

Day lilies about to flower

Early May Garden

Come for a walk around the garden.

The "grass" on the left is from bird seeds.

The weeds have been liking the wet weather

The ground elder on the right comes through from next door. Its been attacked this morning with the weed flame gun.

The sweet peas in the trellis planter are slow to get going.

Sorry about the washing, I did try to avoid it.

Lockwoods Tea Rooms

We went to a new to us Tea Rooms called Lockwoods. Its in rather a posh part of our little city. Unfortunately it was a damp cold windy day, so not one for much looking around and browsing. But never the less we did have a nice dinner.

The photo really could have been better captured, but as I say it was abit of a dash in the rain.

We did find an interior? garden place across the road for a browse around.

I'm sure these Red Robins made into ball standards are worth £150 but one didn't fall into my boot.

Seed Sowing in March

I am very very behind with blogging this month. I've been sowing seeds. We don't have a greenhouse, otherwise I'd sow even more! but we do have windowsills which are almost as good.

I really must make a note not to sow the whole packet of seeds, otherwise you end up with this lot.

I bought these petunia plants as plugs.

See how well they have grown, I know they always do*, its just that its always a nice surprise when they do. 

*Apart from a 100% failure on a packet of Gardener's Delight seeds which have not germinated at all. I've even check to make sure the foil packet isn't still in the seed packet.

 These Sweet Pea's were not that successful either.