Flowers from My Garden

This year my spring garden has been beautiful.  We are now approaching summer and have already dried out badly and not many flowers are blooming any more.

Wildflowers and Sculptures

The recently held Wildflower Sculptural Festival in Hastings was wonderful with beautiful wildflowers and fabulous sculptures and art works.  The top photograph is of a very small fraction of the garden. The owls are by Tony Kale and were quite irresistible.

Garden Colour

My paulonia tree does not do very well but this year there are some lovely flower bracts.  Flanders Poppy's grow very easily and happily self seed each year.  The ceramic display at the Tower of London is really spectacular although commemorating such a sad event in world history.

Manuka Bud and Flower

 

A couple of close-up pictures of the buds and flowers on my manuka bush taken recently by my son, Craig.

Blossom Time in New Zealand

The dark red cherry blossom does not hold its colour very long before fading to a softer pink.  The other picture is of a very small flower I found in the grass - one I had not seen before.

Wood Carvings

The little Bee carving was a trade mark of the cabinet maker who made the fittings for St. Matthews Church in Hastings.  There are supposed to be seven of them in the church but I could only find this one and, even then, I had to have help to find it.  The grape carvings on the pew ends is in response to the very large wine growing areas of the region. I am not sure whether the church is celebrating the wine or the commercialism.

Inside St Matthews Church, Hastings

These windows were donated to the church by the Vogther family of Hastings.  The lectern reminds me of the ones I saw in Britain last year.  Wonderful art!