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Does this say Summer to you?

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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?

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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.

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  1. 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 🙂

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    1. 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.

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      1. 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 🙂

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  3. 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.

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      1. 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!) 🙂

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      4. 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!

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    1. 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. 🙂

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    2. 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 🙂

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  12. 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.”

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    1. 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.

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      1. 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 😦

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      3. 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 🙂 🙂

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      4. 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…

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  14. 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.

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    1. 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.

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  15. 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 😀

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    1. 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!

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    1. 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. 🙂

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    1. 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 🙂 🙂

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      2. 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.

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