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A new edition of Blogging By Mail has been announced! This time the theme is "A Few of My Favorite Things". It's great fun so join in now!

Orchids!

The fourth selection (and the last one today) of flowers from Chelsea are of my favourites - orchids. I only meant to buy one or two, but somehow there were six of them in the bag on the train home.

Even more flowers!

This year's challenge - that is what my two auriculas will be! I have never owned one before, and have long been fascinated by them. Ideally they should live in an alpine garden, but my experiment will take place on my back balcony, in a basket full of rocks and stones. Will I succeed? Maybe, maybe not. Time will tell. But I will enjoy every day I have these pretty flowers greeting me in the morning!

More flowers!

One of the show gardens deserve a special mention - Garden of clouds. A city garden designed by Kazuyuki Ishihara. I passed it many times during the day, and the peacefulness that surrounded the garden was breathtaking. Double-click on the photos and enjoy!

Flowers!

Went to Chelsea Flower Show last weekend. It is such a immense pleasure to walk around all these plants. Yes, there are lots and lots of people too, but the flowers are worth it! The colours! The fragrance! The creativity! Above are photos from some of the show gardens.