galavanting at Castle Fraser

the water that onbce served the castle is fed from the Moses well which is not far behind this and is a natural spring.

spot the castle!

walk just a little further and you get a much better view

tomorrows galavanting will be...

W photo walk round the grounds of Castle Frazer

A stop at Knockspock pond 

And Huntly Castle

garden galivants again

a few warm days and its gone from this 

to this. my beautiful rose.

and this beauty is full of flowers just need a warm eveming for the scent to start to drift over the garden 

Jasmine was uprooted from mums garden and rescued by me and is sat in a shallow tub in the back where she has flowered more and more each year since arriving 4 years ago

as for this beauty I will need to remove the flowers soon as i need my thyme for cooking!

and these native geraniums are going daft as usual by the back door, they seem to flourish in the shade against the north wall

still garden galavanting

can you see a colour theme going on here lol 

these wer planted a week or two before the stripy ones and are starting to fill the wee pots and hopefully will tumble over soon too

garden galavaning

my petunias are starting to grow love the purple of this one

but the hanging baskets still look very sparse, I know I should use more plants but beggars cant be choosers and I got left overs from friends this year  and only bought a few plants myself 

hopefully they will tumble like they're supposed to and next month they will look even better.

garden galavants

Last year near the end of summer I purchased at a reduced price a half dead rose bush 

this year it has 3 buds starting to unfurl, only problem is its not the lovely purple colour it was supposed to be, but is a beautiful deep velvety red