The paintings below are all from what I am now calling the Rose garden. The lavender hedge has been spectacular and the rest is coming into shape

A Shepherd Lad

My favourite rose: Chandos Beauty

The Peanut bed, at the beginning of the summer

The Peanut bed in early August

Earlier this year the rose, Paul's Himalayan Musk, was a mass of gloriously scented colour. I'm hoping that in 2016 it will get over the wall so it can be seen from the swimming pool.

All these Verbena Bonariensis came from 3 tiny plants last year. And there are hundreds more seedlings