Flowers in the garden

It's been a while since I brought you up to date with the garden so the next couple of posts should satisfy certain people's curiosity!

Firstly a totally stunning rose which just seems to keep on flowering (plus it is heavily scented too)!

Our good neighbours Giles & Marie-Jeanne gave us lots of iris last year which have taken very well. What we hadn't realised was that we would have an almost Bradford City variety too!

Here's the white lilac shrub that Tine has hankered after for some time now. It was part of a wonderful thank you gift from her students at l'Aiguillon.

This is 'blé bleu' (blue wheat) which the town has growing alongside many of its roads. I'm not sure if the bread would be blue too though.

And what do you think of my creation? No, not the scarecrow attempting to keep birds off the strawberries, but one of the new wooden tubs.