Saying goodbye to Cynthia’s garden in Rwanda, Day 2

receive to day 2 in Cynthia Goodson ’s garden in Rwanda ! In eccentric you missed it , yesterday she said,“We moved to this house in Kigali , Rwanda , in 2011 . It is a diplomatic mansion house , so we use the terrace and garden for receptions and other large events fairly often . Over the last almost three years , we have made a number of changes to the garden , but the biggest were open up up the area in front of the terrace with grass and widening the planting bed along the larger lawn below . If you would like to lie with more about the garden , which we are actually lead quite soon , please take a face at my web log , enclos*ure , and flick on ‘ Our garden ’ under ‘ category ’ in the right - mitt sidebar(or just clickHERE ) . These photos were take up between April and November 2014.“More information in the subtitle , and more photo tomorrow .

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The view from the center of the terrace in late afternoon. (June)

Descending the center steps and looking to the right: beside the handrail are purple-blue blooming Stachytarpheta. Beyond them are blue Eranthemum nervosum shrubs and orange lantana to the left. (June)

Detail of the same area: to the lower right are blue Evolvulus with Stachytarpheta to its left. (June)

Cobalt blue Eranthemum nervosum shrub. (April)

At the bottom of the steps, looking to the right: the yellow flowers are double Rudbeckia laciniata or double cutleaf coneflowers, and the red blooms in the center – cascading down from the planting bed at the top of the retaining wall — are red and cream Russelia equisetiformis. If you looked at the post from 2012, note that I did have the lamp posts painted dark brown – a huge improvement. (August)