Rest easy people this is not more pictures from Shanghai.  This is a tiny corner of thoroughly English Herefordshire although you might be forgiven from the oriental feel to this water feature.  This and many other parts of my parents’ garden have captured my eye.  The garden is bright and colourful even though the main flowering season is over.

It’s a clever gardener that can keep the colour as vibrant as this right through late summer and into autumn.  Seeing this garden is an inspiration to improve things in our garden when I get home.  With a massive new flower bed to plant up this Spring there will be plenty of opportunity to plant out our own hot beds of colour.

Creating a garden quite as striking as this takes a huge amount of experience and dedication.  Lacking on both fronts I think my ambitions are bigger than my wellington boots but a girl can dream.

This garden is full of interest.  Every way you turn there is something new to look at.  Plants of all shapes, sizes and colours all carefully laid out.

This garden is a plants persons delight.  It’s high maintenance but worth the work.  I’m not sure I’ve got the diligence for gardening of this standard but it’s clear that the more effort you put in the greater the rewards.

I don’t think that the bassets wouldn’t be a helping hand in gardening of this kind.  They would I am sure love having a pond to drink from.  But I fear the bassets wouldn’t appreciate the finer points of gardens.

We’ve had some traditional British summer weather in the last couple of days.  The good thing is that however miserable the weather is there is a such colour in the garden to cheer you up it’s hard to let the weather get us down.   As you can see from these pictures there was some blue sky around so it’s not all bad but I wish I had packed a jumper to ward of the chill in the air.

We’ve been taking it easy pottering around locally in Hereford although we did venture to Hay on Wye to mooch around the bookshops.  As always there are loads you’d want to buy but we had to hold back on account of the excess luggage charges we might face if we took them home.

I’ve been content snapping away in the garden and I’ll post more pictures.  That is when we reach a metropolis where broadband coverage is better and it doesn’t take a zillion years to upload photographs.  Tomorrow we move to the West Midlands which will be a whole new adventure to enjoy.