Spring sessions

Salvia 'Tanzarin,' perfect. Just need a few dozen more to really make an impact. 

Volunteer sunflowers, glory be!

Fat 'black' poppies under the sunflowers. Not as dramatic as I'd hoped, but I grew them from tiny seeds, so I am ridiculously proud of them. 

Kidlets picnicking on the new lawn; the best part.

I see it now, the shape of the garden to come. It will be all I dreamed, and then some. 

Munstead Wood

Third to bloom (I missed snapping 'Black Boy's' first flowers), is Munstead Wood. An unbecoming lopsided and particularly thorny shrub adorned with roses of the most luxurious dark crimson.