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Azalea in Perth, Scotland

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We were driving into Perth (Scotland, not Australia) one day last week, on our way to help with Gordon and Laura’s flitting, when we were stopped at the traffic lights, just opposite Tesco.

Well all I could say was WOW! You can click on it to enlarge it.

orange rhoddie full

I think this orange one is an Azalea but it might be a Rhododendron, but whichever, isn’t it fantastic? The orange one takes up almost the whole of the front garden and I was so busy looking at it that I didn’t even notice the smaller ones. Then the lights changed and we were off.

Luckily we had to make another trip to Perth a few days later and so we were able to park in the Tesco car park and walk over to get the photo. The only downside is that the flowers will probably only last for a couple of weeks, then the garden will be quite dull for the rest of the year, on the plus side though – it is big enough to block out the view of the supermarket which they have from their front room.

It brightened up my life, just driving past it!

Pieris in my garden

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pieris and azalea

I have quite a few pieris plants growing in my garden but this is the only one which is growing in a container, rather than directly in the ground. It shares its space with an azalea, as you can see and they have been growing happily together for quite a few years now, with just the odd scattering of plant food into their container to keep them healthy.

I love pieris, later in the year it will have beautiful flowers on it, similar to lily of the valley, but I have to admit that I’m not too keen on the azalea. This was a lesson to me not to believe the descriptions which go with the labels on plants when you buy them. I now wait until I see the plants actually in flower before parting with my cash because so many times I’ve been disappointed when the descriptions don’t match the reality.

It doesn’t look too bad in this photo because the colour looks lighter than it actually is, but this azalea reminds me so much of dried blood and it has a sort of waxy shine to the flowers too, which I find a bit off-putting.

My garden isn’t looking too bad at the moment, considering the awful winter we had, I hope to get a lot more photos sorted out soon.