There's quite a bit flowering, though as it's rather spread around it's not looking as good as it should. The house was empty for a year so the garden got badly overgrown before we moved in in July. The pink geranium and yellow loosestrife were rampant.
It's a lovely site - on a southwest facing slope, with high walls, so though it's North Yorkshire it's not too bad a climate. Despite being of an insane size, it's actually in the middle of a town!
There's nothing at all in flower in the front garden now (there's a lovely jasmine but that's over now) but in the back: cyclamen under the trees, white Japanese anemones in the border and some sedum about to come out, plus the remains of some red valerian; in other beds, lots of echinops, some phlox (pink and white), a little bit of crocosmia, the remains of some evening primrose, a few roses.
Tree-wise, we've had the tree surgeon in because there was a lot that was dangerously close to the house, so we had to lose a beautiful birch and whitebeam and a not-so-beautiful cypress that was blocking the view from the staircase window. However, we still have a gorgeous mature silver birch, a lilac which must be incredible in bloom, a couple of elders, some hollies, a few conifers and lots and lots of fruit trees including a lot of past-it former espaliers against the walls. To be honest I haven't got my head round all of it!
The whole property has quite a history - it's a Georgian townhouse that was run as a home for adults with learning disabilities by the Camphill Village Trust, so all the gardening was organic. There's a lot of really excellent planting - the crocuses will be spectacular - but it's not necessarily the style I would like - it's very wild, and I imagine something more formal, but my gardening ability isn't yet up to it. It's a better garden than we deserve - we just need the house to not bankrupt us with its constant demands for replacement guttering, roofbeams etc!