Wednesday 27th May - Roses etc

 I promised you roses;

at the front of our house - this rose will carry on flowering until at least October, sometimes even December 

These are the yellow ones I was keeping an eye on, until I forgot. It's a David Austin rose belonging to our neighbour, but we are lucky enough to share it. The white flowers are mock orange.

This rose is just outside the patio door, and is doing well.

These are our other neighbour's 'Frankenroses', he has grafted several different varieties onto just two or three original shrubs, so the dark red, pink and white ones are all growing from plant! 

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The geese at the duck pond a few streets away from us have built their nest in the silliest place, on the grass at the edge of the pond closest to the bench and the bus stop and the road, and in the full glare of the sun. Some kind person has stuck a garden parasol into the ground by the nest to provide a little patch of shade. How they managed to achieve this without being marmelised by the swans is a mystery! I would have like a photograph, but couldn't manage it this time. Maybe next time we go past.

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For a couple of days now the coloured glass globes of the Galileo thermometer have been fighting for space at the bottom of the column... the temperature must be well over 26C then (!)