Ticks the box

Very occasionally something you have planned in your garden goes just right.
After a torrential storm yesterday afternoon I wandered out with the camera to find this Rosa omeiensis pteracantha (sorry, no polite way of saying that) doing precisely what it was planted there to do - glow blood red, translucently, in the low evening light.
How very satisfying.

George's back!

He couldn't stay away!
Our sadly missed former gardener George Watson has returned one day a week to help us whip the place into shape before the NGS Open Garden day on August 24th.
Though I know he doesn't like them, this picture of a verbascum is too good to miss out!

View from the site hut roof

We climbed onto the site hut next to our building site of a house to take this shot of the borders....