Sweet Peas On The Holy Island

13 Replies to “Sweet Peas On The Holy Island”

1. Beautiful colour – and I can almost smell the scent! Sweet peas are among my favourite flowers, but I have had very limited success growing them in Egypt. That said, I have come across two nursery gardens in and around Cairo where they flourish. I don’t know what the secret is!

   1. Perhaps if you drop the nurseries a line, they might give you a few hints. Gardeners are usually happy to share.

2. Sweet peas in their red blooms look brilliant in the bright sunshine, Susan.

   1. It was one of those early evenings when the sunset seems to be everywhere else but in the sky.

3. Love the light through these, and the hint of more pink off in the distance.

   1. Monet would have liked the chance to spend a few mornings or evenings in this garden. I’m glad you liked the echoes of pink – I liked that bit too.

4. What a great colour and lovely picture with the echoing flowers in the background.

   1. Thanks! My battery gave up a minute or so later, which was tantalising, to put it mildly. The Gertrude Jekyll garden was looking as good as I’ve seen it.

5. I did not know what Holy Island was, so of course I had to look it up. I am in awe. I cannot imagine the wonder of seeing these sweet peas in such a place. Thank you for ever more education!

   1. It is a remarkable place and the long sandy drive to get there makes it appear more so. In context, it is tempting to make some kind of connection between a cloistered life (of the sweet peas, growing gloriously towards the heavens on a frame of string) and the freedom of the other flowers clustered together in the garden below, were it not for the fact that the sweet peas look so wistful.

      1. Not just tempting, but mandated. You’d HAVE to make that connection in that context! All the more beautiful. I’m imagining that long sandy drive and it’s wonderful.

6. So bright against the field.

   1. They have a dazzling quality, for sure.

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