One week - four walks

I have enjoyed four trips to Coombe Wood this week.

The Coach House Cafe was closed this week for renovations. I wondered if it would be ready to reopen today as planned.

1st trip. Monday 11th

Happy bee

Wild flowers

Berries

Dainty pinky lilac flowers

Although these magnolia flowers are quite large they made me think of a flock of butterflies settling on the branches.

Sunlight shining through slim leaved acer

Bee on an allium

2nd trip. Tuesday 12th with two friends from the art group I belong to.

Two varieties of red tulips

Close up of dandelion seeds

Looking down into the Coach House Cafe courtyard where piles of furniture and other contents from the cafe were stored during the decorating, much of it protected under a large gazebo.

Looking closer inside the tulips . . . 

. . . and a poppy (I think)

3rd trip. Friday 15th after a day of very heavy rain on Thursday. The bullrushes usually look like fluffy candyfloss but on Friday they were extremely waterlogged.

Repair work began this week on the potholes.

Dandelion

Raindrops on pink lilac (I think that's what it is)

I love the way the raindrops sit on these leaves 

Busy beetle

Cones marking potholes to be repaired.

No access to the hut at the moment

Pale lemon rhododendrons.

More water drops on leaves. I like the purple backs of these purple tinged dark green shiny leaves.

A blaze of orange

Delicate pink and green stripey bells

Acer with tiny flowers

Inside a rhododendron

Little peachy coloured azaleas

Being watched

Tree peony unfolding

More raindrops

Seeds developing in the euphorbia

I think this is Bellis Perennis Pomponette

4th trip. Saturday 16th. This morning I just popped along to see if they had managed to finish the Coach House Cafe renovations. I wasn't going to have much or a walk and had no intention of taking photos but the magic of the garden enticed me in - and I had a gentle walk . . . for an hour and a half and took quite a lot of photos.

The courtyard was almost back to normal

and the door of the Coach House Cafe was open. 

Some very tall alliums are beginning to open

Tight ball of tiny pink tinged flowers.

Orange flower with bright yellow stamens

Close look at bleeding hearts

Clouds of tiny white fluffy flowers

Up in the woods - the scent from the yellow azaleas fills the air. 

Some of the flowers have slid down the stigmas without falling off and they swing as the breeze wafts the scent around.

A profusion of different coloured azaleas and rhododendrons

Looking much closer again

Emerging from tiny pink buds - a froth of pale pink blossom 

Pink and cream rhododendrons (?)

Looking closer at pink forget-me-nots

Well that was a lot of photos - if you've lasted to the end very well done indeed and thank you so much for joining me.