some plants

Thought i would add a couple of the plants i have in the garden..that i am hoping will be lovely, beautiful and big this year. The photos of the whole garden didn't really show them.
This one is my budleja (butterfly plant) The dark part right in the middle is the size it was when i bought it, all the soft silvery part is the growth thats been going on all winter. I know these things can get huge, which i am excited about, and i can't wait to see the butterflies arriving.





This one is my dahlia cezanne. When the shoots started coming through i chopped off last years growth (i like to keep it as protection from the frosts) I have just treated it like a hardy plant..but on looking up dahlias they are a bulb or root bulb, and if it gets too cold you can pull it up for winter, but mine has been quite happy up on the patio. I think this is beatuiful, but sadly will have to wait till late summer for the full bloom.






This is the rose i found at the end of the garden, looks like it was a huge plant once upon a time. The growth is lovely and green. It was very weak looking, so i have hacked it right back. Being a rose it should come back good this year. I think it has a light pink flower, looking at the one dead one that was on it when we moved here.







And for Nicki (and cause it is my fav at the moment) Here is a close up of buds on my hydrangea. I kept the blooms on all winter to protect it from frost (and because they go quite beautiful, amost skeleton like) I have now cut off about 1/3 of last years growth, to stop it getting to big, but to make sure some of last years growth is still there, as with hydrangeas thats were most of the flowers will come from. Buds have already started quite nicely on mine, so it helped judge were to chop! I wonder what colour it will be! It stayed true blue all last year, but it is still newly planted for a hydrangea. It has a great spot with good dranage at the moment. I can't wait for flowers.