My little bit of heaven, some treasures and a mystery...

I make no excuses for this post being picture heavy because I wanted to record just how lovely our garden is at the mo.  I consider it our little bit of heaven because, even though we live in the middle of a village, when out the back of the house you don't hear the noise from traffic and the bird song is amazing.

So I'm going to take you for a little walk with my camera....

 I have taken the first picture from the patio door in the kitchen....this is the view I see every day  :-)

 I walk as far as the greenhouse and swing to the left and this is what I look at....notice the new fence is progressing well.

 A little further and you can now see the willow tree on the left [the new cut out door way is round the back of it].  In the middle of the picture you can see the wooden arch with the wisteria on.

 This is the lower part of the garden with the veg patch at the bottom [this is where Twiglet spends many a happy hour planting the veg].

 Beyond the veg patch is our 'back to nature' part of the garden with a path leading to the bird hide and log pile for all the little creatures to live.  I love the peace of just sitting down here watching the birds.....we have put up feeders and bird houses amongst the trees and it's definitely become a little bit of heaven down there.  The wild flowers can possibly be seen if you click to enlarge the picture.

 Here you can see the stars of the show.  They must be 3 of the luckiest little dogs out to have all this wonderful space to run freely in.

 I have now turned round to head back to the house and the view from the bottom is just as gorgeous  :-)

 We have a little gravel path  through the middle of the gardens and if you zoom in you will see Wispa playing peep through the archway  :-)

Nearly home now  :-)  Rocky, Wispa and Skye are ahead of me waiting for their breakfast.

I have snapped a few of the treasure I found on my way round.....

I love the variegated leaf and the pretty apple blossom coloured flowers on this Weigela.

 This clematis has thankfully survived the winter and now coming into bloom....It's called Josephine  :-)

 The Peony in now at it's best but the wind and rain very quickly knock off the blossoms because they are so heavy.

The Wisteria is just gorgeous.










And finally I have a question for all the gardening experts out there.....

What is this?

It is growing in front of our greenhouse, has huge slightly furry leaves and is now nearly 3 foot tall! with no sign of a flower as yet.

We have no idea what it is so have left it to grow to see what it develops into  :-)

I'm sorry to say the comments I had have now been deleted and along with that were the suggestions of what my mystery plant might be.  :-(  Looks like it will be a wait and see what grows  :-)