Penarth Open Gardens Trail this weekend. Saturday 19th (10-6) and Sunday 20th (11-5) July. Tickets £5 available at all participating gardens including mine at 77 Coleridge Avenue @penarthonline.bsky.social @penarth.bsky.social @jzhendry.bsky.social

Libertia Formentosa is reaching its flowering peak, I've never seen it this good in all the 20 or so years it's grown here. Seen through pretty self-sown aquilegias it's a delight @penarthonline.bsky.social @jzhendry.bsky.social At least the Spring drought has had one good result!

My daughter Brough me back some lovely honeysuckle scented soap from Paris. I never knew that the french for honeysuckle is chevrefeuille, literally "goat" and "leaf".
I feel there must be some historic link, legend or folklore. Does anyone know?
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Winter Iris enjoying the sunshine, always a joy to see them. They need to bake in the Summer so they're planted at the base of a sunny wall. @penarthonline.bsky.social @jackwallington.com @lgspace.bsky.social @seederwood.bsky.social @venetiajane.bsky.social @jzhendry.bsky.social

Lovely to welcome the snowdrops, a promise of better times to come and a new gardening year. It's deliberately untidy to protect any sheltering wildlife but soon the paeonies will appear. @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social @venetiajane.bsky.social @penarth.bsky.social @jzhendry.bsky.social #snowdrops

The Winter honeysuckle was full of bees yesterday today they've gone until the storm is over. It's such a valuable shrub for feeding bees and bugs through the Winter and brightening up the dark days with little white scented flowers @venetiajane.bsky.social @jzhendry.bsky.social

Finally set up on Bluesky and looking forward to seeing old friends from the "other place" who have moved over. @penarth.bsky.social @venetiajane.bsky.social @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social