The new Bonn Square

It’s July in Oxford and the streets swell with summer students, tourists and even the odd resident. Bonn Square was redeveloped last year to much controversy and protest. It reopened this past winter to little use (it was cold and wet), but now summer is here and the true value of this public space has been established. Although trees were cut down, they have been replaced and provide welcome shade for people just hanging out.

Rosa Sweet Juliet (Ausleap)

Sweetly delicate; RHS Rosemoor gardens, Devon

Rosemoor roses

I didn’t manage to get the variety name for these, sorry.

Rosemoor cottage garden

I’ve posted a number of pictures of individual flowers from the RHS garden at Rosemoor in North Devon, but this cottage garden shows more – a great swathe of lush colour.

Birch bark cherry tree

 

Rosemoor gardens, Devon