The early evening was overcast, but at 7:00pm the sun broke through highlighting the still bare branches of the trees opposite with gold. The sky was a strange colour, still mainly overcast but with strange brown overtones. It was a joy to see the sunlit reflections, I think the sky colour was due to pollution from the Sahara sands which is making its way across to us from Africa and Europe. The news tells us that it is at present overlaying England and Wales.
The spring blossom on the trees makes the garden look amazing, there is so much of it. Camelias, white and pink; Magnolias Susan, Stellata (white), Leonard Messel, Soulangeana, plus of course the spring blossom trees themselves.
There are still hundreds of daffodils in bloom, great patches of primroses, primulas and violets. All around the garden small self seeded primroses are peeping out from under the edges of shrubs. On the bank and tumbling down from it at the back the hyacinths and aubretias make an eye catching display.
In another part of the garden a Clematis has threaded its way through a viburnum hedge and has produced a cascade of pale blue flowers with a cream centre, which stretches across the breadth and falls down the length. It is reminiscent of a waterfall.
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