OK OK I know – three days in a row boring old flowers – yep, it’s true……

Still, though, this is the same flower I shot yesterday only today it’s been and gone and done it – it’s thrown itself wide open in a beautiful, glorious display. I like its curvaceous ness and the tiger striping.

So why bother with it again today?

Well, if truth be told, I just like it. I like flowers – there now, that’s my confession for today over and done with. I am one of those people who can’t see one without thinking of its photographic potential, which I capture with varying degrees of success. I must say, I kind of like some of the less ‘flowery’ shots best if you see what I mean – the burning rose is one of my faves and I do like the ones of dead things.

It’s rare in the garden here that there’s not something out and showing its face – really I’d say November and December are the only months when that’s true. The rest of the year, from the snowdrops and bergenia in January to the hydrangeas and fuchsias of October, there’s always something prepared to stick its neck out and show off.

So, for that whole time, we never go without a ‘posy’ of something in a vase on top of the telly – at the moment it’s heady, fragrant philadelphus and rhododendrons that are in the pot…..every time I walk into the room, I get hit by the scent of the philadelphus – this one’s a really triumphantly scented one. Yummy.

The irises have been subject of my PAD before, but in a very different state……the reason why I looked at them this week was because on my evening ‘perimeter walk’ I noticed that something is living in a nest at its roots. I’m not sure what because I’ve not caught it occupied but there is a definite path in and cosy spot. It’s actually got its feet in water, but the foliage lifts the nest enough to make it dry and cosy. I’d love to know whose home it is.

Last year, I was photographing a fallen one!