Happiness is...

Beautiful cold-climate flowers photographed at the Sturt Winter School at Frensham in Mittagong the other week. These are the sort of flowers I grew in the UK but can't grow in sub-tropical Coffs Harbour, so it was lovely to find them in the Frensham grounds. The garden was laid out by Edna Walling, a doyenne of garden design in Australia, and for UK garden design history buffs it was very reminiscent of the Lutyens/Jekyll style.

Gardenia

Not enough pictures in this blog yet, so here's a spurious one, a propos of nothing. Scented flowers do make me happy, though. I'm not someone who likes strong scents usually, but Gardenia is beautiful and I'm just thrilled that over here I can grow a tree from something that in the UK is a hot house plant that usually yellows and dies from the cold!