Skip to content

Susan Rushton

Celebrating gardens, photography and a creative life

  • Home
  • Blog
  • About
  • Contact
  • Extras
    • Photo Gallery
    • Browse
    • Privacy and Cookies
    • Copyright

Tag: SpikySquares

Posted on March 31, 2019

Spiky Flowers Or Foliage

Clay pot filled with pale purple flowers, with slender, striped leaves
Maroon flower with narrow petals
Pink cyclamen flower with feathery-edged petals
Yellow flowers with crest of green leaves

My final submission to March Squares is dedicated to Mum, who loves flowers, in celebration of Mothering Sunday.

Posted on March 18, 2019March 18, 2019

Spiky Squares: UK Style And Southern USA Style

Spires of lupin flowers in a cottage garden

More spikes today, in support of Becky’s MarchSquares. My first shows a classic English cottage garden with lupins and foxgloves in the display gardens at Bridgemere Garden Centre in Nantwich. Continue reading “Spiky Squares: UK Style And Southern USA Style”

Posted on March 3, 2019March 3, 2019

Spacedawg!

Painting of a dog in a space suit fastened to a picket fence

I’m sharing this spacedawg advertising art for Becky’s Spiky MarchSquares. Someone may have de-spiked the picket fence, but luckily for me, the light gleams are spiky. Continue reading “Spacedawg!”

Posted on March 1, 2019February 28, 2020

March Spiky Squares: Bluebell Cottage Gardens

Blue thistle-like flowers in a garden
Echinops at Bluebell Cottage Gardens

It’s March and Becky from The Life Of B is hosting a new, month-long challenge. This month’s topic is spiky and the only real rule is that the main picture must be a square shape. Please join in if you’re feeling at all spiky!

Follow Susan Rushton on WordPress.com

Thanks for stopping by

  • 514,976 hits

Search this blog

Click on tags to explore

  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Birds
  • Blogging Challenges
  • Bulbs
  • Colourful
  • Cottage garden plants
  • Darwen
  • English gardens
  • English Roses
  • Floral
  • Flowers
  • Flower shows
  • Fragrance
  • Garden art
  • Garden design
  • Gardens
  • Hellebores
  • iPhoneography
  • Lancashire
  • Leaves
  • Macro
  • Mississippi
  • Nature
  • Plants
  • Popular
  • Quirky
  • RHS
  • Rosa
  • Rose
  • Roses
  • Sculpture
  • Stone
  • Street art
  • Trees
  • Wildflowers
  • Winter
  • Yard art

Recommended posts

Picture of traditional house and overstuffed courtyard garden
Cothay Manor's Courtyard Garden
Picture of rosette shaped English Rose
Festival of Roses at RHS Rosemoor

Search posts by category

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

The small print

Privacy and cookies
Copyright information

Perennial Favourites

  • Great Companion Plants For a Cottage Garden: Geraniums
  • Flower Show Trends: White and Chalky Pastel Palette
  • English Rose Gallery: Rosa ‘Darcey Bussell’
  • Chihuly’s Creative Combinations of Glass Art with Flowers
Follow Susan Rushton on WordPress.com

Search this site

Privacy and cookies

© 2014-22 | Susan Rushton | All rights reserved

  • Link to my Instagram account
  • Link to my Pinterest account
  • Link to my Twitter account
  • Link to my Flickr account
Website Powered by WordPress.com.
  • Follow Following
    • Susan Rushton
    • Join 3,239 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Susan Rushton
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...