maria's garden - summer 2013

I've shared Allsy's mums garden I few times before on this here blog (click here to peruse previous posts, go on, you know you want to). Maria's garden is looking so fan-dabby-dozy though that I thought you might care for another wee nosey. 

Lovely yes?! Indeed.

beau's 18th

Yesterday was my boyfriend Allsy's brother's 18th birthday so Allsy's mum Maria had us and Beau's friends round for a buffet. The evening mainly consisted of Beau and his friends supping cava and tequila and Me and Allsy eating so much buffet food that I had to loosen my belt quite a bit. Is that how you know you're getting old, when the buffet table is the key event of a party? Or are me and Allsy just little fatties? It could possibly be that. 

Anyhoo, while those lot were supping I saw it as a good opportunity to take a few snaps of Maria's garden as it is looking rather nice, scratch that it's looking blooming gorgeous (no pun intended). 

It was so lovely to be able to sit outside until late too, it makes a nice change after months of eternal cold doesn't it?! I must admit it did start to get a tad nippy so me and Allsy had to surrender and borrow his mum's coats, I don't rate her chances for seeing that leopard print number again as Allsy took a bit of a fancy to it. 

The little 'uns seemed to have a jolly good time and stumbled to the pub later on.

Whereas me and Allsy were much more rock and roll and stumbled home to bed, must have been all the cake we ate.

I hope you all had a nice bank holiday weekend x 

maria's garden close up

Yay, it's Friday people! I wish you all a very happy weekend indeed. I had heard a rumour that the weather was going to be mighty nice but at the moment it's misty, rainy and just generally pretty miserable out there so not sure whether my plans to be out in the garden for most of it are going to happen. We shall see eh?!

Well, here's yet more photos of plants, yep I am a woman obsessed. 

I took these photos of Maria, my boyfiend's Mum's garden on Sunday. I've shared her garden before here and I hope to share it with you all again this year as it always looks lovely. For now though, here's a sneak preview...

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maria's garden - spring 2012

Good day to you all

Spring really is dragging its heels at the moment isn't it (who said you could come back snow?!). If you need something to keep you going until spring finally is here then hopefully this post may help, if only a smidgen.

I shared a few photos of my own garden in springtime last year here and below is a sneaky peek at what Maria’s garden also looked like last spring.

Maria is Alex's (my boyfriend's) mum and although her garden is only small, the planting combinations are always interesting and the garden looks good all year round. I must admit to being more than a tad envious of her lovely little garden but she helps me out loads and gives me tons of advice so all is forgiven. 

This is around the time I got seriously and obsessively into plant photography, can you tell?!