Simple pleasures ...

Some pretty things I found in a walk around the garden this week.

We have quite a few bromeliads in the garden. They look quite unassuming most of the year but waiting for their flowers is well worth it!

One of the roses has developed the loveliest big, plump rosehips. Hopefully that means lots of flowers next season!

I'm not sure of the name of this pretty shrub but it looks a little like a salvia. It is covered in these pretty purple flowers. Who said you can't have flowers all year round?

With a promise of great things to come (I hope) the daffodils are beginning to shoot! We have an edging of them around the lawn. As you can probably tell our garden is 'let go' a bit. We aren't too fussed about weeding etc. We benefit in having a part 'wild' garden with visits and live in residents of the bird and animal kind. Hope the peek into our garden reminded you of the simple pleasures all around us.
wishing you sunshine in your shadows
Helen