The weather at the moment is reminiscent of holiday weather isn't it? And for us that's not the only thing, with the warmer days our garden is full of the scent of jasmine by the early evening which is fantastic.
Wandering around the garden earlier in the week I realised that our jasmine plants have somehow expanded. There's plants along either side the patio, underneath the non-fruiting cherry tree and at the end of the garden too.
It "cascades" well and I think looks best with this waterfall effect. Over winter some of the ends and under branches become twig-like and need snipping off. Often I do this by hand and the effect is to flatten it more against the fence in the waterfall way that I've mentioned.
This year we've a new "instance" of jasmine flower for the first time. The jasmine, which thrives in our garden has climbed through the back of the fatsia and into, and beyond, the elderflower, and that's added to our garden's fragrace.
The flowers do at times float down and can be found where you least expect them.
But it's not just the jasmine which surrounds the patio that is scenting our garden. At the end there's also the mock orange, of philadelphus. Our tree is full of scented flowers, which looks pretty too.
I'd forgotten quite how fragrant our garden can be.