I miss my sea view

My balcony is still shrouded in green netting. The scaffolding should be dismantled in the next couple of weeks - I'm keeping my fingers crossed as the building work is behind schedule and there's still more filling and painting to be done. Here's a balcony photo from earlier in the year; a reminder of what I'm missing...

Gnarled trunk

Pavilion Gardens, Brighton.

Another spiky one

In the Pavilion Gardens again; these peculiar looking things are the seedpods of Nigella damascena, a classic 'cottage garden' flower known as Love-in-a-Mist.

Spiky

Flower spikes of Acanthus spinosus in Brighton's Pavilion Gardens. As well as being a striking garden plant in its own right, representations of the spiky foliage have been used for centuries as architectural ornaments and to decorate sculpture and wood carvings.

Turn left for the museum

Music while you shop

Saturday morning shopping with sunshine and music, George Street, Hove.

Up top

Scaffolding on Brighton Dome.

Also available in blue

Conditions must be perfect this year for growing hydrangeas; every plant I see near where I live is smothered in blooms. This is another specimen from Aymer Road, but growing in a different garden from yesterday's photo.

More colour

Another hydrangea; this one is growing in a front garden down Aymer Road, Hove.

A colourful show

Hydrangea, Vallance Gardens, Hove.