Spring is here!

Today was the "official" opening of the Spring season for me; I saw the first

Winter Aconites and Snowdrops ... :-)

"Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment."

                                    Ellis Peters

Autumnal garden pictures

Two pictures from the garden.

 

Summer flower

Here is a nice summer flower in the garden:

Autumn flowers

This is the dark season here in Scandinavia, but fortunately there are still a number of flowers around brightening up the darkness:

Late October flower

Colourful flowers, like the one below, are nice to have when the we are approaching the darkest weeks of the year ...

September orchids

These Orchids I photographed at the Kulla Gunnarstorp castle shop:

 

 

Dahlia "Vancouver"

Dahlias are still adding colour to the Sofiero castle garden. Here is a detail of a "Vancouver" dahlia:

Pictures from the 2014 Great Garden Festival at Sofiero

The Great Garden Festival at Sofiero castle is a wonderful annual event for all people interested in flowers, gardening and related activities. Below is my small selection of pictures from this year´s festival:

Sofiero castle garden

From the Sofiero castle garden:

 

A red rose

A rose in a neighbour's garden:

 

 

Nice flowers

I think German iris flowers are rather nice. These are on display in a neighbour's garden:

Rhododendron time

The rhododendron season is now at its peak in southern Sweden. This one is from our own garden.

Peonies in a neigbour's garden

Peonies are among my favourite flowers. These ones I spotted in a neighbour's garden yesterday.

Three macro images

A daffodil.

Nature art.

After the rain.

A yellow anemone and a small insect

This is the time also for yellow anemones here in Scania. And where the flowers are, you will also find insects ...

The first rhododendrons in the Sofiero Palace park and garden

The first Rhododendrons are always a beautiful sight in the Sofiero Palace park:

 

 

There were other interesting flowers as well:

The first wood anemones

Wood anemones have always been among my favourite spring flowers. This year, I found the first ones in Helsingborg's beautiful Pålsjö forest:

 



Here are two other shots from the forest: