late spring exuberance

The iris is that old favourite Jane Phillips, one of the few good garden plants growing here when I arrived over forty years ago. The white sweet rocket (hesperis matronalis) is a bit battered by the wind but on a calm sunny evening it fills the garden with scent. The centre of the bed is lacking colour this month because the plants died during the winter and I am still dithering about replacing them.

Next month I shall need to trim the hedges but for now they are resplendent in their spring-green foliage.

photo copyright Lynne Revette Butler