Many colours

I've updated the pot with some African daisies ... a nice touch of colour.

I've also got yellow and orange marigolds and yellow snapdragons in the garden at the moment but I am going to show you a different colour flower tomorrow.

Reflection:
Genesis 37:3 (King James Version)
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

Nasturtiums

Nasturtiums wander about near the fence. I believe you can eat the flowers though I've never done it.

Reflection:
Genesis 2:15-17 (New International Version)
The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. And the LORD God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."

Hot and cold

What volatile weather we are having at the moment, one day heating is needed to keep us warm at night and the next day it's searing hot all day. Well nothing goes better with hot sunny days than hot garden colours so I am going to run a short series on the orange and yellow flowers currently brightening the garden.

This is the first of the roses to flower since I rescued them from the long grass.

Reflection:
Revelation 3:15 (New International Version)
I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!

Driveway

At this time of year our driveway is brightened with late flowering azaleas. And that's it for comparing my humble garden plot with the magnificant Everglades garden.  We'll start something new tomorrow.

Afternoon tea

My sister has been visiting for a couple of days. What a great excuse to enjoy home-made devonshire tea in the garden.

Reflection:
James 2:14-16 (New International Version)
What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it?

Potager

Our herb garden is not like the neatly organised kitchen garden at the Everglades and my columbines are not in a garden bed but have freely self-seeded wherever they wish.

Reflection:
Matthew 10:8 (New International Version)
Freely you have received, freely give.

Urns

We don't have any urns or sculptures in the garden. Our best match is the hydrangea which we have recently placed under the shade of the maples.

Reflection:
Psalm 121:5 (New International Version)
The LORD watches over you—
the LORD is your shade at your right hand;