Saturday, August 12, 2006

This week in the garden




















The last rose for our little rose garden. I knew this one had to come home with us as soon as I set eyes on it! A stripey rose - fabulous!




















It's interesting the way the petals curl back too.




















This one and the next two are Hibiscus I think. (The gardening expert has gone out this evening and now I can't ask him!)















I really like this one as the leaves add interest too. All the buds are only just coming out so we haven't seen the flowers yet but it should be lovely.




















This one looks like it has two different colour flowers but the pink turn to purple as they age.















An exotic visitor - although he did look a bit drunk as he waddled away!
















Three leaves I picked up in the garden. I like the green veins of the one on the left, it looked as if it had been Photoshopped!

2 comments:

Laura said...

Oh, my, that looks like a Japanese beetle, sworn enemy to roses, petunias, and much else in the garden :(. They won't kill your plants. They'll just devour the blossoms and some of the foliage. But they come and go, so all is not lost!

AnastasiaC said...

gorgeous garden discoveries
the colour on that beetle is amazing!