The merry month of roses and "Tour for a cure"

Hello dear blogging friends and readers and welcome to Boxwood cottages rose garden in the merry month of June!


In June my garden is at it's peak of glory and I don't think it can get any better than now where all my roses are in full bloom and Eden rose 85 and Constance Spry are having a feast beside and on my rose arc:




As always you can click on all my pictures and than click again on the orange button in the left down side of the photos to enlarge them in their full size if you like to see more details, which I recommend highly for example for the photo below:


Here is a close up of my darling Eden rose 85:

and another close up this time of my frilly "Augusta Luise" a very beautiful scenting rose:

although my white peonies "Boule de Neige" where blooming for the last two week and I got this close up where I think it looks as if it is lit by the sun, it is really glowing:




Another glowing rose is growing in a huge pot on my deck now, it is David Austins deep pink-reddish "Wenlock":

This soft beauty below is called "Bremer Stadtmusikanten" and it is my hometown rose:

My "Rokoko" rose is also in bloom together with my Clematis "Ville de Lyon":

I love when the morning sun sends her beams in my garden:

The historic rose "Louise Odier" was a gift from me to my neighbor's birthday last year, but luckily I can enjoy her from my garden too:

Most of my Alliums are fading now but the Globemasters still look great:

Here is my "Leonardo da Vinci" rose together with a pot of dianthus and a hanging basket with purple petunias and other beauties:

My clematis "Piilu" is also in full bloom now and very much enjoyed by the bumblebees:

My "Allium Globemaster" in their full glory, they are now bigger than my garden balls out of glass:

New to my garden this year came this gorgeous purple "Campanula punctata":

Below is "Allium Christophii" showing of her blloms like pink metallic stars inbetween the grennish-yellow Alchemillas:

Gorgeous pink foxgloves are growing right in the middle of my rose arc:

A pot of soft pink Diascia (in German its called "Elfensporn") in a pot in front of my deck, the Lavendula behind it is just starting to bloom as well:

View from the deck down in my lil garden:

Here is a view of my garden taken from my roof top window, where my studio is located which I have neglected a bit while the weather was so good (click on photo to enlarge):


Sky blue "Veronica teucrium" (Großer Ehrenpreis) is blooming near the feet of my blue trellis and is giving the needed shade to the Clematis Cardinal rouge which is climbing up the trellis:

And lastly a shot of my catnip "Nepeta Six Hills Giant"


I dedicate this post to a special blogger named Deena who has invited bloggers world wide to a virtual garden tour (see her banner in my side bar) called "Tour for the cure" and who is hopefully winning her battle against breast cancer she's fighthing right now!!!! I'm sending her best wishes and positive thoughts from Germany! To read more about Deena aka Sweet Annee go here http://deenasstory.blogspot.com/ and to find more gardeners participating in the "Tour for the Cure" showing off ther beautiful gardens in June have a look at Deena's link list at the bottom of her post here: http://deenasstory.blogspot.com/2008/05/garden-tour-event.html

Have a great week and enjoy your gardens or nature whenever you can!

Hugs Carol(a) xox

Pictures from my fall garden

Once again I have to apology for the lack of postings to you dear readers and blogging friends, I hope you'll forgive me again! My sister has finally moved into her new house and needed me a lot as a babysitter for my niece and nephew in the moving process as well as a moving helper, also I had a lot of work in the office and tried to use every spare moment I could find to create. I have further had a very sad case of death in my family lately, my mums dear sister, my fave auntie died after she broke her leg and had to have 2 surgeries which was to much for her, so I also needed some time to spend with my mum and my close family and of course time to grieve for her.

I know that I owe you all a big garden update having not posted for so long, so here are my fave garden pictures of the last 4 weeks:

The red Admiral (Vanessa atlanta) seem to love my garden very much this season and I love to take pictures of him.

Above is a combination of Pelargonium with vanilla scenting Heliotrop on one of my patio iron tables which still looks and scents very well.

Some beautiful roses are still blooming like the English rose "Wenlock":

My fave plant in my fall garden is the redish "Sedum spectabile", blooming together with the purple Verbena bonariensis and a pink Chrysanthemum which is not yet blooming:

Some roses are still blooming in my little rose border too.

Like the gorgeous "Augusta Luise" See close up they look much better and scents so good:

Another favorite in my fall garden is the Snapdragon which literally glows in the sun:

Oh and not to forget my darling Eden rose 85 (also called "Pierre de Ronsard" in some countries) which blooms and blooms:

Another shot of the Sedum border:

The honey bees loves the Sedum too!

And the bumblebee enjoys some late blooms of the "Buddleja davidii" :

The Admiral is sipping sweet nectar from the "Verbena bonariensis" also called "Verbena Argentina":

I bought this enchanting Penstemon last month and hope to get it through the winter this year it has a very delicious purple color:

Lastly a picture of my sweet grape vine:

If again I should not get around to post for a longer period for whatever reason it may be and you are interested in my latest pictures and crafts you can always have a look in my flickr pictures (just click on the little flickr mosaic that you see in my side bar here to get there) because I upload pictures there quite regularly.

I have started to create for Christmas now seeing that we don't celebrate Halloween here in Germany and I think you can never start early enough.

Have a fabulous new week everyone and hopefully you can enjoy some golden fall days too!

Hugs Carol(a) xox

P.S.: I hope to find the time to visit all your beautiful and inspiring blogs in the next days and I also have some swaps to finally send off, please bear with me!

It feels like summer here!

You won't believe it, but we had 25 degrees celsius yesterday (that is 77 fahrenheit) and it is supposed to stay this warm for the next three days as well! Everything is growing so fast now! I took the following pictures last Sunday and will take new ones this Sunday so I can compare what a difference a week makes.

Above is my new little autumn border, but right now I love the spring color blue with the grape hyacinths! And the blue of the pansies, anemones & hyacinths in the next pictures:

The only soft yellow in my garden at the moment comes from these daffodils:

The red bleeding heart is gently open it heart shaped blooms:

More gorgeous pansies:

And I love my ranunculus in all different colors:

Pink tulips soon to bloom in full beauty:

My Auricula is opening it first blooms:

All my roses are growing so fast! Yesterday I even saw the first buds!

My Magnolia has already finished blooming now, but I loved it's pure white flowers!





Some more eye candy picture from my garden for you:

Oh I know I have to put the Easter deco away now *sigh*

Now I have to go out in the garden, potting more flowers. Have a wonderful weekend dear blogging friends and readers! xox