While my brain is in start-up mode after getting up from the sofa or, if I'm lucky, bed, a wander round the garden is the best way to accelerate this slow process. I begin to notice things.
This morning it was the neighbourhood flock of homing pigeons doing their circuit across the sky with the fluttering sound of wings in the quiet.
Then a female blackbird at the bottom of the garden amongst the dill swallowing a slug. This sight pleasing me more than it should.
Sadly, a drowned bee up-ended in the water on the bird feeder.
But then, the new red of a Cherry Glow poppy that's just opened, replacing the first one that after only a day was destroyed by heavy rain.
And it's not even 8am.
New garden lovelies...
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| the late flowering Allium Sphaerocephalon - nip to bees |
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| new arrival - the Cherry Glow poppy |
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| Cherry Glow and Vipers Bugloss |
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| cosmos Dazzler and Feverfew |
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| Honka - a star dahlia |
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| the luscious Twynings Revel |
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| great blooms and bronze foliage - what's not to love? |
All the dahlias are growing together in pots like a heavenly host of coral,crimson,orange and yellow.
I am grateful to grandad Billy Pick for passing this particular love to me :)
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Gorgeous flowers. Thanks for sharing.
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