It was a varied day, which is always the best kind. It started with a drive through hazy Devon countryside, verges and banks spilling with cow parsley, stitchwort and campions. We were on our way to visit a rural pottery, complete with wood fired bottle kiln, lovely wares, nesting swallows and nice folk to sit on a wall and pass the time of day with. Then next to Bideford, along with a million converging motorbikes whose hum soothed us as we enjoyed a French lunch with an obligatory vin rouge. Eventually home in time to listen to championship rugby on the radio, a form of commentary I always find both confusing and inspiring.
These Geranium phaem, or the black widow geranium, were flowering en masse in the garden of Shebbear potter Clive Bowen and his wife Rosie. I can usually find a flower somewhere.
Off The Edge Gardening 
Gorgeous and so easy in shade.Mine mixes happily with wild geranium.
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Sounds a picture, how is your garden growing this year?
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It’s lovely thanks to excessive rain.So a new assortment of wild orchids and even serapias( I had to look those up) but also some dry stone walls that came crashing down
Just love your blog and never fail to be surprised and delighted
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Would love to see some picture …… lovely to know that you are listening, love to en France xxxx (are you impressed by my linguistical skills?)
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In fact you could do a guest blog! It seems all the rage in blogging circles and you know what a follower of fashion I am. Go on, it will be fun. You send me photos and write a short piece and I pretend I did it. Not really. I would of course say it was by one of our Foreign Correspondents. 🙂
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I have a form called Langthornes Blue which I like very much.
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I have just looked it up, it is beautiful. Another one for the list!
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Lovely to think of you finding flowers wherever you go!
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Could not make the pottery sale but while leaving Shebbear Shop a lady asked me directions. She had driven miles, no map, no sat nav, so I steered her in the right direction, I hope! I know what the lanes are like around here, lose all sense of direction. The verges and banks, so beautiful at this time of year, make any drive or walk a real pleasure.
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Well done! It was all so beautiful, I kept wanting to stop and take photos, but I wouldn’t have been very popular!
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Ah, yes, those weekend motorbike cavalcades… wouldn’t be the same without them 😉
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Ha! 🙂
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Likewise. I find if there isn’t a flower to photograph the place generally isn’t worth visiting anyway. Been to Canterbury today nosing around Ecclesiastical folks’ gardens 😀
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Oh lovely! I do like a good nose, see anything scandalous?
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No, all very wholesome apart from a lot of ladies of a certain age walking round with gigantic Primark bags. That was not appropriate in my view!
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I may soon be in possession of a Gp ‘Lily Lovell’. I have offered to assist in some propagation of same at the local wholesale establishment!
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Just googled, she looks a beaut!
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