Category: Cheering up Mondays

Sometimes the name of a plant is just perfect. This is Dahlia ‘Rhubarb and Cream’, spotted on the National Dahlia . . .

The start of another week and the January gloom is being lifted by this. Winter flowers are always so welcome . . .

Something simple for the last Cheering up Mondays of 2019. Calendula officinalis – otherwise known as the pot marigold – . . .

Something simple for the last Monday before Christmas. I love forget-me-nots (Myosotis sylvatica), which is just as well because they . . .

Pure white beauty to start the week. This was on the Picton Garden and Old Court Nurseries’ stand at the . . .

There’s something appealing about the simple flowers of honesty. This is also Day 9 of my Flower Advent Calendar – . . .

A touch of flamboyance for the first Monday of December. This rather striking hippeastrum was on the W.S. Warmenhoven display . . .