Bistort.

I know I said I wasn't going back to the Walled Garden, and that it was too expensive now... but with things being the way they are, it's hard not to think, damn it, the world is ending, I should visit gardens while I can.

( And it's wisteria season... )

On Thursday it was blowing a hoolie, the wind still in the east, and I thought that if I did the walk from Sheep-pen car park to Swyre, then at least the wind would be propelling me up the hill. ( Read more... )

May is nearly here. The wisteria is in flower.

The wind is still in the east, and full of willow fluff. There has been so much dust and pollen on the car windscreen that I ran out of screenwash yesterday and had to top it up. The sun keeps shining, and the daytime temperature has been up in the low 20s C, which is just too warm for April. But I believe the Bank Holiday weekend will work its usual magic, and bring us some much-needed rain.

Decided suddenly, at lunchtime, to make a break for it, and took a half day holiday to go wandering round the gardens at Holme, photographing things blowing in the wind...

( Floral overload )