The Garden : After the Storm

It rained, it poured, it pissed it down.

My god did it rain! I have never seen rain like it before, apart from a few years ago but that was the volcanoes fault and there aint been no volcano recently.

Anywho, thought you might like to see some photographs of my poor garden after the rain monsoon...

Hope you enjoyed... please leave a comment!

More Macros!

Well, the weather is bloody awful, I am tired of this rain... I want to get outside and take some pics! I could use a plastic cover but with the sky being so cloudy and the extension tubes reducing the light even further, it is simply way too dark to get good shots. 

Why not use a tripod? Well let's put it this way, the bloody wind is blowing so epic motion blur...


However, I did manage to nip up the local woods with my BF and grab a couple of good shots before the light disappeared and the rain came tumbling down. Enjoy!

Rye Grass in Flower.

Lupin with water.

Wild Strawberry Blossom

The Unfurling of Wild Bracken

Flowering Gorse

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Californian Lilac

This little flower really shouldn't be there... I purchased this plant at Morrisons at a discount, it was pretty much half dead!

It's only a small flower and the reason it's flowering now is because I have it indoors for the moment.

I was going to put it outside into the cold-frame, but the day I thought about doing it, the weather decided to throw snow and ice everywhere and I was afraid that if I put anything out it would be frozen to death.

I am going to have to put it out soon, the windowsills are still jam packed and the poor tomatoes really need re-potting, but there isn't any room to put bigger pots. Oh dear god, why the hell did I decide to plant so much?

Once the weather is okay for everything to go outside  the house is going to look really, really bare but it's such a bloody mess at the moment.

Here we go Round the Mulberry Bush...

This is the view that greeted me after dropping BF off at work, the round light is the sun coming through the really intense fog. It was so beautiful!