Good Garden, Bad Dog

A few snaps from around the garden. The flowers are looking pretty good this year, there's been a perfect combination of sun and rain, and warm and cool.



Though the plants are healthy, I'm disappointed with the choices I made at the garden centre earlier this year. Last years garden was so much nicer, but I suppose I'm still learning.

I loved snapdragons as a child, we would pop their heads off and make impromptu puppets. As bedding plants I'm finding them a bit scrawny, I think they need to be placed with lower growing annuals.



I added baby's breath to the garden this year. It's a perennial, and being its first year in the garden, it's looking quite scraggly. Next year will be better.



These lovely bell flowers were a gift from my mother-in-law, Maureen. She gave them to us a few years back and this year they've been particularly good - a gorgeous shade of blue-purple and shaped like a perfect mound.



Lilies, I planted quite a few last year, but they're still looking a bit blah. Let's have a gander at some that were planted long before we bought the house.





While helping me with the weeding, Gus found this:



a tiny nest of bunnies. Elly guesses they are about a week old.

There's three left.



There were originally four, but Gus being Gus just couldn't resist taking one out of the nest to play and promptly broke it's neck.

Bad dog.