Flowers in the rain
Spindle Bush
The garden is lush and beautiful after a rainshower…
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Dogwood
…Floradora’s special tree is in bloom (she is carved from a Dogwood tree branch)…
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Honeysuckle Rain
…she spent time with the the honeysuckle sniffing the clouds of sweet perfume…
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Crocosmia leaves
…and skirted the crocosmia leaves to avoid an al fresco shower!
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Lady’s Mantle rain
The Lady’s Mantle is always so beautiful after a rain…
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Lady’s Mantle flowers
…the piercing green of the flowers…
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Lady’s Mantle raindrops
…and the precarious raindrops.
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Bonnet Flower
Youngest human and I planted Granny’s Bonnet Columbine a few years ago…
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Granny’s Bonnet
…and they are self-seeding into a little clump…
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Mini Fuchsia
…this is our latest delightful plant – a mini Fuchsia called Lottie Hobby…
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Hitty-sized!
…the flowers are Hitty-sized!
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Saxifrage and Blue Star Creeper
The heavy rain overnight rain saturated ground and the colours, but it is nice when the sun comes out!
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Quimper Hittys 
I love Lady’s Mantle. I will have to add it to my garden.
I love it too, and as a bonus – the deer do not love it so it doesn’t get eaten in the unfenced part of the garden!
Just stunningly beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing!
You are very welcome – the month of May in our garden is so lovely it would be a pity not to share it!
Thank you for bringing us so close to the small details of each of these beauties. I so enjoyed the zoom in of the water drops on the Lady’s Mantle.
It is wonderful to see the garden from such a perspective, I am grateful to the small Hittys for giving me the excuse to look so carefully at things so closely!
my Lady’s mantle is spreading aggressively but it is easy to remove and the flowers are a good natural dye with an alum mordant. My columbine never get to self seed before the deer eat them.
The Lady’s Mantle doesn’t seem too exuberant in Quimperland! And the front yard Columbines are at frequently chomped, but luckily the ones behind the fence are safe!
That piercing acid green of the Alchemilla is wonderful!
It is wonderful – we just love all the colours and textures of green in the spring garden!
such a gorgeous garden. I smiled at the fuchsia reminds me of the dark eye fuchsia I nurtured when we lived in Colorado. I grew it in honor of a sweet German Shepherd dog we had rescued.
Aw what a sweet remembrance! I just had to get the fuchsia when I saw its tiny flower!
Ah the dew/rain on leaves and flowers – Nature’s magic – so lovely!
Healing magic! We love the garden so much!