Colourful Week

Here are a few touches of colour around the garden.

Tulips:

 More tulips:

There are buds on both my birthday trees. Flower buds on the redbud Cercis canadensis "Lavender Twist": 

And leaf buds on the Japanese maple, Acer palmatum, "Osakazuki":

Both look like they will be open very soon. The other two trees in the charbagh, a lilac and a crabapple, already have leaves and are preparing to flower.

Our temperatures have resulted in a colourful rosette for week 18:

Last week I was excited about yellow, but this week we have orange! And only three aqua/teal days, rather than the five that the forecast last Friday predicted.

29/09/2017    15.6    green
28/09/2017    13.9    aqua/teal
27/09/2017    20.1    yellow
26/09/2017    15.6    green
25/09/2017    10.6    aqua/teal
24/09/2017    13.8    aqua/teal
23/09/2017    26.7    orange

It's not easy to select a thread for assembling the rosette with all these different colours in it. Appliquéing it will be similarly tricky!

Next week may include 2 aqua, 3 green and 2 yellow hexies. But then again, it may not. Either way, I'm sure the garden will include lots of colour to delight my heart.