
I have always admired this shrub in a neighbour’s garden – it always looks so healthy and full of blooms. I knew it was a rose but have only just discovered that it is a Japanese rose, Rosa rugosa…

In a garden beside a nearby street there is an excellent arum lily planted in the of a Magnolia tree…

…I always thought these rather funereal and called them arum lilies, but they are also known as call lilies and are a species of Zantedeschia