The theme of the guild Christmas Challenge this year is "In My Garden". This pin is in my challenge piece:
Yes, today I was basting my quilt. I now have 19 days to get it finished! A bit different to last year, when I was quilting my Christmas challenge quilt in
August.
Here's some of what is happening in the real garden.
The roses seem to be slow this year, but a few are starting to get going.
The rose above is "Raspberry Tiger", and the one below is "Granada".
Both of them are from the
lucky dip box of end-of-season roses.
"Margaret Merril" is not new this year, but I don't seem to have ever posted a photo of it before:
"Friesia" is gorgeous every year:
The
rescued Chinese ground orchids were taken out of their pot and planted in the garden earlier this year. They've just started flowering, too:
The most striking thing in the garden at the moment is this:
Maybe it doesn't look too amazing there, but what if I step back a bit:
It's a monster echium! I'm hoping it continues to grow tall, and doesn't meet the same
fate as last year's.
6 comments:
Beautiful roses and that amazing echium is wonderful.
Raspberry Tiger looks good enough to eat. You did very well in the lucky dip.
You've got a natural Christmas tree there. There's no need for decorations; it's grown its own!
Love that Raspberry Tiger rose--I've not seen that variety before...what type is it? Meanwhile.....
we have snow-covered ground....early this year for it...hope it's not a preview of what is to come...;000
hugs, Julierose
Beautiful roses! I always was scathing of roses, thought they were ugly unless flowering, but i have become a convert! And your Echium is fantastic, another plant on my wish list I need to find room for.
That Echium is just gorgeous and so interesting.
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