Does this say Summer to you?
What do you think? Jude is asking for The Essence of Summer this month. Wonderful what you can do with a sunny hour or two, isn’t it?
Spot the intruder! This was going to be all about the Iris, but I was very taken with the Cersiums and I’m afraid they just sneaked in. Jude is busy in her new garden but she’ll make time to say hello.
Have a great weekend, and don’t forget Cate. Another, very busy lady. This is my 200th Six Word Saturday! Maybe I should quit while I’m ahead.
Yes, oh yes! Sadly they are all over here now…we had a terrible heat for a week that just swept them away.
I dimly remember heat 😦 😦
Hehe…
I consider the irises the Grande Dames of my garden – they are gorgeous. Loved these photos.
We don’t have any but I’ve been admiring them in ones and twos for a week or so. To have a whole swathe of them, like these, was fabulous, Noelle. 🙂
I only get a few per year – the soil here is terrible for most perennials. I miss living up north where I could grow anything!
Absolutely!!! 🙂
🙂 🙂
such a lovely summer day, Jo! the flowers are exquisite! 🙂
It’s a lovely rose garden, not far from where we live, LolaWi. The irises were a lovely substitute for the roses. 🙂
It does say summer loud and clear and it is a lovely sight as we start to cool down over here. I even had a warm “cardy” type thing on today. Latest fad here is long, straight, almost to the knees cardigan…
Those 2 days were Summer, Pauline. 🙂 Out with the walkers this morning in soggy fog 😦
Soggy fog not good for photos, unless you are after atmospheric shots. Keep wrapped up and warm my restless friend
I absolutely adore iris. I have never seen the pale blue! Yes! They DO say summer to me, although mine came out in spring. 🙂
Hiya Debbie 🙂 I should have known you were an iris lady!
Definitely yes Jo! I hope you’re enjoying the summer so far 🙂
I’m tempted to say ‘what Summer?’ Suze, but that would be very negative, wouldn’t it? 🙂 The village had drizzly Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations today and we had 2 lovely days last week. That’s a start, isn’t it? Hugs 🙂 I bet you’re doing better!
I have the blue irises in my garden and when they appear I feel that summer is here. I love the other irises in your photos too – I don’t think I have seen that colour combination before.
There were some lovely bronze ones too, Elaine. My favourite was the blue because it was the palest I’ve ever seen. Fabulous! Summer? You jest 🙂 🙂
Perhaps we need to readjust our notion of summer! I’ve just noticed that my lovely blue irisis took a bit of a battering yesterday and all the flowers have died. I hope there are a few more to come.
If I adjust it any more I’ll be living in the Arctic. 🙂 The good news is, all was jolly in the village. What’s a few soggy scarecrows between friends?
The good old British spirit!!
Hello, what is this game about the saturday word ? I don’t have understood all explanations. Thanks in advance.
It’s a little strange, isn’t it? If you follow my link ‘Cate’ it will take you to this week’s entries. On the pink header is the link to the home page which explains. You need to use six words to describe your week, but you can do it any way you want, and take liberties as most people do (especially me 🙂 ). If you decide to take part, you go to ‘Cate’ and put your link for this week in as the next entry. Join in next week? 🙂
I came to your blog from “Lost in translation” 🙂 What is strange ? 🙂
For the link I visit it. 🙂
Ok six words to describe my week. I laugh. 🙂 ok I can try for next week. I’ll go again on the link to read what is written. 🙂 Before participate, I want understand the game 🙂 I write with my school english, sorry for my mistakes.
Your English is great! My school girl French extremely rusty! 🙂 The rules are very loose and you can interpret them any way you want. The idea is just to have fun, and meet a few people, of course. Nice talking to you. It’s wet here and I’m blogging between making Sunday lunch.
Irises are some of my very favorite flowers. Love your photos of them. Especially the variety of unusually colored ones.
Peta
Thank you, Peta 🙂 This is a rose garden, newly opened last Summer. It was our first return visit since then and the irises were beautiful, taking away the bareness till the roses bloom.
le iris, o giaggioli, come si chiamano da noi, sono il fiore prediletto della mia Toscana, il simbolo della città di Firenze e quindi da noi amatissimi e molto coltivati, ma se ne trovano in grandi quantità anche spontanei in giro per la campagna, ne hai dato splendide immagini
grazie, buona domenica cara Giovanna
I’d forgotten the connection with Florence, Annalisa. Thanks for reminding me. How I’d love to be in your wonderful countryside right now. Hugs, sweetheart 🙂 🙂
What a magnificent garden, Jo! It’s winter here, but still very warm in the tropics 😉
Those 2 days of warm sunlight were bliss, Dianne. 🙂 Back to rain 😦 Happy Sunday!
Thank you for your visit 🙂
I don’t have a garden, but these flowers are great. and the shots too.. 🙂
You’re very welcome. I enjoyed seeing a little bit of your world. You have a lovely Header photo. 🙂
Thank you. Your comment is nice. 🙂
Oh my Jo, such beautiful irises. They are like a work of art!
This rose garden is only about a year old, Lynn, and it was such a pleasure to find these irises flooding the place with colour while they wait for the roses to bloom. 🙂 Happy Sunday! How are the birdies?
Lovely!
Beautiful, aren’t they? Have a happy Sunday 🙂
They are! Happy Sunday to you, too!
Gorgeous photos and flowers! Happy summer and happy 200th Six Word Saturday. Don’t stop now, though. At 300 or 400 or 500 you will still be ahead as well, so you can always stop then.
We had two glorious days, which I did my best to make the most of. Raining again now though 😦 Thanks, Liesbet!
Raining here as well, unfortunately. Why always on the weekends? I exclaimed my annoyance in my Six Word Saturday post today! I feel better now. 🙂
I always knew 6WS served a purpose 🙂
Irises, constant messengers of summer happiness! Bravo!
I thought you might like them. Ann. 🙂 Happy weekend!
Congrats on your 200th, Jo. Your summer flower photos are really gorgeous. 🙂
Nice to show that the sun does shine here occasionally, Ad. 🙂 But it’s raining right now 😦 Thanks, hon.
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Don’t you dare stop the 6WS! I need at least another 200! Lovely flowers. Irises always make me smile. Hope you are doing well Jo!
Hi Tonya! I was just about to come and visit because I saw your comment on Ron’s. Good thanks- so long as you don’t ask about the weather 😦
yes it does and I bet these flowers smell like summer too!
Just for an hour or two it was wonderfully warm, Kathe, and I basked in it. 🙂
Bonny blue irises and then the mauvey ones and palest lemon – what a summer sight. I see the Cirsium rivulare ‘Atropurpureum’:are very popular this year making their appearance at Chelsea again. Funny thing is with me that anything popular immediately goes down in my wanting it. I guess I just love the underdog 🙂 Thanks for the summer entry, hopefully you’ll find at least one more before the month is through. I MUST get my garden post written to show you my yellow irises 🙂
You must! This isn’t what I was going to post because our clematis are starting to look good and I was going to do you ‘Jo’s garden’. Nothing so grand as iris. 🙂 But when we popped along to Wynyard Hall I was smitten by the blues.
I have a gorgeous clematis in flower at the moment and my own purple one, which is in a pot still, has a lovely huge bloom the first time in a few years that it has been so big. I think it likes Cornwall 🙂
I want to come and see 😦
Wow such a bright sunny summer day Jo. Yes I think you have represented summer beautifully my friend.
We had TWO of them, Sue! Whoopee-doop 🙂 🙂 All gone now 😦 Is it Autumn already?
Oh dear that sounds dreadful. Heading out on our bikes in the sunshine here so will soak up some Vitamin D on your behalf.
We are up early this morning to celebrate my dd’s birthday with family. We are going to see some flowers at the Chicago Botanic Gardens. I hope those flowers are as beautiful as the ones you have shown us today.
I’m sure I’ve seen photos of the Chicago Botanic, Mlissabeth. It’ll be beautiful! Have a great time, and if you can, take some shots and put them into a walk for me? 🙂
Gorgeous flowers! 🙂
Have a wonderful weekend,
Pit
Thanks, Pit! I’d like to adopt that garden. (and the man who helps to keep it tidy 🙂 )
So very pretty..bring on summer!
Yay! Absolutely 🙂
We’re not QUITE there yet, here. Almost. Soon.
Gone before you know it, Ron! We’ve had 2 days worth and now back to… 🙂
I love those beautiful irises, Jo, and they certainly do speak summer! Happy weekend! 🙂
Hiya sweetheart! All good with you? We’ve just had 2 days of Summer. That might be it! 🙂 Good job there’s the Algarve.
Oh Jo, I doubt you’ve already seen the end of summer! And of course, yes, there is always the Algarve. I just spent two days in Philadelphia area visiting four gardens and the weather was glorious! In the 70s and breezy. Today it’s supposed to be 95 F. Ugh. I hate it when it’s full-on summer in Virginia. Not much planned, just dinner and movie, some walks, and writing some blogs. What about you? (By the way, I now have a laundry room and my screened-in porch is ALMOST done. We’re having porch furniture deliver this week!) 🙂
Woo-hoo! 🙂 🙂 Grey and mizzly here. The scarecrow fest is on tomorrow (we think!) and that’s often a wet one. We’ll see 🙂
The Scarecrow Fest? Now that sounds interesting. Hopefully we’ll see pictures? 🙂 Have fun!
I’ve posted them 2 years running but we missed last year. Mick drove through the village this morning and said there are some on the Green, so we’ll go and check tomorrow. Still busy with Polish sagas, let alone untold Algarve, so fitting them in on the blog’s the problem. 🙂 You too!
Yes, I know. Too many blogs and never enough time. 🙂
Yes, it does has summer written all over 🙂
The reality is a bit less impressive today 😦 Summer was on Tuesday/Wednesday 🙂 🙂
It is gorgeous here. Beautiful weather, warm during the day and a little bit colder in the evenings. Very unusual for Ohio
Ahh you like the soft colours, I like irises as dark as possible so we won’t fight over them 🙂
I can go either way- very pale or very dark. Just blowsy beauty 🙂 There were some lovely bronze ones too.
It does, Tish…!
Here , only rain , it seems…
Oh dear! 😦 I know how that feels. While the rest of the country had sunshine our north east coast has mizzle. Hoping for better tomorrow. I’ll come and help you blow the clouds away. 🙂
I like the blue one – such delicate colours!
I know! I was smitten too, Andrew 🙂 Happy Saturday!
Thanks Jo. Happy Sunday for me, I am going to Ireland for a few days!
Oh, now I’m jealous again! 😦 North or South? I had half a plan to join Meg in Gdansk this week but flights are from Doncaster-Sheffield. Ok if me and Mick are both going but an imposition if I just need a lift. No public transport links from up here. I’m sulking 🙂
I am going to the south, to Cork and the south coast.
Surely there is a train to Doncaster via Newcastle? Shame to pass up a travel opportunity!
Ooh, Bantry Bay! Wet when I was there. You’ll have better luck 🙂 It’s not really at Doncaster is the problem.
Gdansk is high on my ‘to do’ list!
Just do it – http://www.robinhoodairport.com/getting-to-the-airport/public-transport/
Cheers, Andrew 🙂
Irises are definitely the essence of summer. I love them. Congratulations on your 200th SWS. That adds up to a small essay of words, or a lengthy poem. Let me begin a poem for you, then I will quit while I am ahead. 🙂 I call it “Looking back on those golden years”
” Pull up a chair and sit?
What do you do for fun?
A woodland walk in spring sunshine,
a walk on the lilac side,
from here..to here..and back.
Cheese flavoured icecream with Jamie Oliver.
Did I tell you about Girona?
Barcelona, a feast for the senses;
windows full of cats and dogs,
the case of the disappearing train.
Fish and chip baby jumper complete,
flying south but not for long.
What do you do for fun?
Pull up a chair and sit.”
You are the sweetest lady! 🙂 I sometimes wonder if I’ve repeated any, but it hardly matters now, does it? I do remember the cheese flavoured icecream, though. There’ll not be 2 of those! Many thanks for your time and patience, Ann. 🙂 Wishing you a peaceful weekend.
I didn’t go through all 200 posts but I didn’t find any repeats among the small selection I looked at!
This is fabulous – now I want to look some of these up. Cheese flavoured ice-cream? Fish and chip baby jumper? Clever Ann 🙂
Isn’t she a sweetheart? The cheesy icecream was in Nottingham with Lisa. I really should scrap or revamp the page, but you know I have better things to do. Same applies with the A-Z’s. Woe is me 😦
Too much to write about, not enough time to do it! I have stacks of drafts waiting for the pictures to be added!
Drafts! I never do them ahead of time except for starting Monday walks mid-week. But that’s only putting folk’s links in. Spontaneity is my middle name. Or Disaster. Take your pick 🙂 🙂
I usually only get the title down, just to remind me that I need to write something! I have a whole load of things I want to post, but once I get into the garden time flies! Today I went to hang out the washing with the intent to sit in the garden and read for a while and 3 hours later…
Sounds like the exact reason you moved to the country to me 🙂 🙂 Keep it up!
Yes! The diversity of the SWS posts is amazing.
Oh yes, most definitely! Beautiful shots, Jo! Happy Weekend! xo
A very happy weekend to you too, Jill 🙂 🙂
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I love the way you’ve foregrounded the irises and yet still showed a bit of their surroundings. That first lot are so delicate: the maroon and lemon ones are more assertive; and then you return to the delicate at the end. May the rest of your week be as pleasant. With hugs.
The highlight of the week was Raby Castle and that will be a future walk. Those white irises are from there but the others all from our local, Wynyard Hall (where the posh people go for expensive coffee, but I spend my £3 on gawping at the flowers 🙂 ). There was a very nice bronze specimen too, but he didn’t make the cut 🙂 The soft blues are my favourite. A whole swathe! Fabulous 🙂 Thanks, sweetheart.
I like comments. They expand on the post very nicely.
Beautiful bright blooms, Jo. Yes, I think they scream summer. They look so fresh and enjoying the sunshine. Congrats on the milestone. 200th SWS. I wished I had joined the party earlier. It is a lot of fun 😀
I can never make up my mind which flowers are my favourites, Mabel. Often they’re the flowers I’m looking at at the time 🙂 Definitely a preference for the pale blues here. Thanks, darlin’. Happy weekend to you!
I adore irises, and your pose gives us the jewellery of summer.
I’ve been seeing just the odd one or two for the last few weeks, Viv, but Wynyard Hall had a whole fabulous sea of them. If you ever get back over this way we’ll have to meet there for posh coffee. 🙂
Pure idyll… 🙂
We sat on a bench and just gazed. 🙂 🙂
Yes, summer for sure.
Grey and Autumnal today, Carol. Saving the sunshine for your visit 🙂 🙂
Oh no, I hope your summer hasn’t been and gone already!
More than likely 🙂 🙂 One day at a time.
Our winter is probably warmer than your summer right now. We can bring some warmth with us!
You might have to! 🙂 🙂
Oh no, don’t give up!
I love your irises, Jo – very summery.
Lovely, blowsy ladies aren’t they? 🙂 Thanks, Debs!
Stunning – glad you let the Cerisums sneak in.
Nice, aren’t they? Are you on your way to London? Have a great time and please give Sherri a hug from me. Or a handshake, if that seems more appropriate 🙂 🙂
Unfortunately not – woke up feeling awful with an incredibly heavy head cold 😕 think I better keep it to myself.
Oh, what a shame! You were looking forward to it, and I was half wishing I’d gone because this weekend is dull and uninspiring here. Just not meant to be. Hugs, sweetheart! Hope you feel better soon.
Thanks xx