Layer Cake

The garden has rippling colours of raspberry, white, purple and cream running through it like a layer cake and I want to take a bite out of it as it looks so lovely!

Alliums Purple Sensation, the tall white Mount Everest and low Nigrum, Foxgloves in purple and cream, the Oriental Poppy 'Patty's Plum' interplay and mix to create a wonderful, textured painting.

This is the high point of the garden in late Spring and early Summer.  The green so fresh, the colours so soothing, the overall effect quite beautiful.

For many of the plants, this is still only their second season as most were planted in Spring of 2012.  But all have taken well, matured and flourished. 

To wander around the garden at different times of the day sees the colour palette change and shift.  In the evening in particular the colours intensify and become more vivid.  In the morning, the garden is fresh and dew laden.

But already we can feel the footsteps of high Summer approaching.  A month away from the solstice, a gradual shift will now take place and the garden will transition with the purples and white being replaced with hotter and more vivid colours such as orange, lime yellow, deep red and the blue/purple/lilac shades of Lavender.

For now at least we must enjoy the moment and eat our fill of the visual delights.