Some pics from my garden today

Fair enough BAGS mind the lovliness of the flower, doesn't really need scent.
Bit like fushcias, one of my favourites !

(it's marble too)

My vase with a wee bit of yellow stuff. (mine came from Turkey via daughter's school trip years ago)

nonu, no fragrance. I avoid fragrances indoors cos they make me sneezy and headachey.

It's a one bud vase, I think. Heavy marble but with a small bore for the water.

Mine is more like 14cm, jings. Bought it in a charity shop a few years ago and found it at the back of a shelf today when I was looking for a small vase cos the photinia was looking so nice and I thought I'd cut a sprig or two.

No, you're right it isn't that tiny. It's hard to tell from the photos how big the flowers are.

Well - Bags said it was a wee bit of photinia.

(it's not that tiny!)

12 cms is tiny!

Bags I have got that identical vase!

Is yours 12 cms tall?

(you take lovely pics)

Where ever it comes from, Bags it is totally beautiful !
Does it have fragrance ??

It isn't a British or even a European native, dusty. I think the shrub is native to China. The bush we have was in the garden when we moved here. Some are a lot darker than ours. It is looking particularly good this year

How beautiful!
I've never heard of this before, just had a quick google to find out a bit more about it. I gather it's a shrub sometimes used for hedging. Yours looks so delicate and quite exotic, I wouldn't have thought it came from as far north as you are.

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Brought in a wee bit of photinia this morning

So perfectly beautiful! thank you for sharing

Nice garden.. such a lovely flower

I thought that I hadn't been able to post a photo.

That was the praying mantis before I rescued it and put it back in the garden.

In the Algarve, up in the hills. Also in the clouds all day today, rain sweeping across and we keep losing the internet.

Where are you at the moment, dusty?

Beautiful colours, I'm hoping that the south of Britain will be full of Autumn colour when I'm there in a few weeks. Meanwhile all colour here is bleached away and waiting for fresh growth to come through.

I'm envious of your macro camera.
And your posting skills, I shall practise again later.

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That's lovely, dusty.

Here are some of this week's colours in my garden

Trying again.

Oops ! need more lessons.

I can do sunsets too!

Just learning to post photos.
The sort of thing you can see in my garden.