Back after six weeks to the roof garden, where the roses have not been in quite such fine fettle as they were at the beginning of the year. But they were still satisfying, though it was more a matter of single blossoms than the profusion I have shown recently.

The exception was the pot on the north east corner which had again a collection of delightful speckled roses. But now there was also a rose that was just red, as can be seen on the top of the first picture.

This was on the last day of February, and there were also there a couple of red roses in the plant on the south of the bed which has the temple flower tree. That had not been prolific previously, so that it was nice to see it doing its stuff when other bushes were taking a rest.

But what did turn up trumps, for the second time, was the temple flower tree, which again had two splendid bouquets on its two branches. I had not noticed them before, but ten days earlier, when I was up there after some time they were in full flower. And as previously they lasted long.

I show several pictures of them, beginning with the profusion I first saw, followed by a more distant shot which shows also the white temple flower tree that in the next garden. The fifth picture is of the flowers seen from the balcony, some days later, suggesting that I had been careless in not noticing them before I got up to the garden. And then I have the picture taken on the last day of February.

There follow then two single roses, another red one, in the same basin as the last pair, but at the north east corner; and a yellow one though verging now on white from the south west corner of the other basin, a plant I have shown changing colour from bright orange to a mild yellow, now almost white.