Weekly Photo and Travel Theme Challenges: Fresh Spring Flowers
I spent a lovely afternoon at RHS Wisley Gardens on Wednesday to capture these fresh, early Spring flowers. The two challenges this week were perfect to link together for this! I also spotted lots of wonderful birds which I will share with you all soon. For now though, I have also made a short video on my Sony phone whilst wheeling around the gardens! Watch out for my friendly robins in the Wildwoods 🙂
This stunning crocus display was all planted last October during the Half Term Holidays. Mylie and Zach were two of the many who helped to create this wonderful spectacle.
Camellia, Hellebore, Magnolia and Azalea are big colourful blooms in the woodland!
Blossoms are everywhere, bringing out the first bumblebees of year.
There’s so much glorious ground-cover around the gardens!
Life is bringing colour back to the bare wooded areas. The birds are loving it!
And don’t forget the daffodils!
Taking One Day At A Time 
Lovely.
Thanks Victor 🙂
Oh, yes, yes, yes!! Thank you Sarah for bringing Wisley to me! Love the crocuses, the buds and the daffodils. I do love your photos ❤
My absolute pleasure Jude 🙂 Did you spot the friendly robins in the video? I think I shall have to share the birds for the Outside and Ephemeral themes this week! I can’t believe how behind on last year the spring flowers actually are but it was such a lovely afternoon and the light was just right. The annual orchid show is about to start as well as all the easter fun for the kids 🙂
You have noticed that too? I was comparing some photos from last April 1 and the blossom was out here, and magnolias etc. Must have been all that rain during the winter as it certainly hasn’t been that cold this year.
It’s very noticeable!! It’s a bit strange in some areas of Wisley where some flowers are on time and others haven’t got going yet. Makes some parts seem a bit gappy! Mum thinks it’s because there was a false start to spring as it was very mild just leading up to Christmas. Then of course we did finally get some frosts and snow. I often go to Wisley on my birthday every year (tomorrow!) and there’s usually so much more out of the blossom and magnolias. Even the tree buds seem behind on where they usually are! Our own garden feels ever so sparce still.
Happy birthday (again 🙂 ) for tomorrow – or actually now it is today!! xx
It is 🙂 Thanks Jude! I shall spend much of the day eating cake 😉
Very wild and windy here – no walks today 😦 I shall join you in eating cake – what are we having?
Same here!! No outdoor activities. We’re having cupcakes with lashings of vanilla butter icing and baked lemon cheesecake 😀
Slice of the baked lemon cheesecake please, with cream on the side 😀
(My favourite)
One of Simon’s specialities 😀
Your muse 🙂
True 😀
Wow spoiling us again
Oh what a beautiful spring you are having! I’m soaking in every bit of these gorgeous images!
Thanks Susan 🙂 Many of the blooms are quite late this year! I love seeing everything bursting back into life. Spring has definitely sprung!
Sarah, have you thought about changing your theme on here? I love your photos, you have an enormous talent but sometimes I feel that the background doesn’t showcase them as well as it should (also the text is very small). Something with a white background that shows large photos?
Anyway, this is by no means a criticism of your work, you know how much I love what you do, it is more a fact of my age and how much I struggle with dark backgrounds and small text!! 😀
Jude xx
Perhaps it is time that I had a look through some more of the themes! Finding the time is always the tricky part. Yes, I agree the text is very small. The dark background is really just me being arty and enjoying the punch it can give images. I should think more about it from the readers perspective though!
Especially elderly readers 😀 😀
I’m 40 today so do I count as elderly too now 😉
Definitely not!! You have at least another 30 years before that stage. I still think I am 25. Apparently the brain stops growing then which is why we ALL think we are 25 😀
Ha ha 😉 Yeah, adulthood is like that I think and I’m getting worse at guessing people’s ages! To me it doesn’t really matter.
Wonderful colors, awesome work!!
Thanks so much Jim 🙂
Hey Sarah .. Beautiful pics. Aren’t spring flowers just gorgeous!
Thanks Julie 🙂 Yes, it’s a delight to see so much colour again!
Wow Sarah! Absolutely amazing shots of all these beauties and I just loved the video. I would really stay there all day long. I just love your photography. Everything is so clear and such wonderful depth of field on some of them. Stunning post and share hon. Thanks for a lovely virtual trip. 😀 ♥
My pleasure and thank you Sophia 🙂 I do stay there pretty much all day. I even got locked in once!! I love playing with DOF, particularly when flowers are planted in clumps like the crocus and daffodils 🙂
hahahahha! I would have been locked up a few times for sure. Just imagine the fun I would have being alone there. 😀
You are doing an excellent job of it was well Sarah. I just love it! 😀
I wouldn’t mind staying over in the glasshouse when they have the butterflies there 😉
Oh, I wouldn’t either. Just think how much fun that would be! 😆
Totally brilliant 😀
I like these pictures, Sarah, but the one at the top here (which is maybe why its at the top here!), the one seen on the Reader, really flattens me – what colour, its almost as if its on fire, and your use of the shallow depth of field is spot on. Wonderful! Adrian 🙂
Thanks Adrian 🙂 Yeah, I set that one as the featured image. A little something that works beautifully with a large clump of daffodils! I love picking out a focal point somewhere in the middle of the clump and using the smallest f number possible 🙂
I love the yellows best!! Wonderful array of freshness Sarah!
Thanks Cybele 🙂 Yellow is just such a happy colour!
Stunning selection of photos.
Thank you so much Raewyn 🙂
Beautiful pictures Sarah, Wisley looking gorgeous in spring.
Thanks Katie 🙂 I love the changing seasons at Wisley! Watching the landscape constantly evolving is a wonderful thing 🙂
What a wonderful post and beautiful photography of the flowers !
Thank you so much Jocelyne 🙂
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Wonderful posts Sarah!
Thank you so much 🙂