Some pics from my garden today

Oops ! need more lessons.

Trying again.

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That's lovely, dusty.

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

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.

Where are you at the moment, dusty?

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

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.

Nice garden.. such a lovely flower

So perfectly beautiful! thank you for sharing

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Brought in a wee bit of photinia this morning

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.

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

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

Bags I have got that identical vase!

Is yours 12 cms tall?

(you take lovely pics)

12 cms is tiny!

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

(it's not that tiny!)

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

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.

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

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

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

(it's marble too)

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

Actually I think it might be onyx. a bit like this one

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Wild cherry