The first sunny day in ages and what happens – I have an appointment in the city. I cast a disappointed glance over my shoulder and witnessed the sun stretch out over the garden, highlighting the green against the clear blue sky. It was one of ‘those’ days. A rare magnificent blue sky day, even the chilly start wouldn’t have deterred this gardener. A day … Continue reading I didn’t mean to do that
Brief: Show us something that overruns your scene, but observe and compose carefully before you click the shutter. There is no way I want a swarm of any kind in my garden and work hard to avoid pestilence and infestation, but luckily the brief can be loosely interpreted and I have a ‘swarm’ of lavender heads blowing about on the breeze. Now this is probably … Continue reading PHOTO DAY 14: Swarm
The brief: Capture the natural world with your camera. Look for natural lines that lead our eyes to different parts of a frame. OK. this is my kind of theme. I am in the natural world all day – rain permitting! I constantly have a camera with me and several have suffered a sad demise as the dirt made it’s way into the zoomy bit … Continue reading PHOTO DAY 8: The Natural World
I have continued on my quest to ensure I get things done in the garden every day. Although yesterday was a bit of a technicality as I purchased things for the garden rather than actually worked in it. I normally grow my daffodils and other spring bulbs in a multitude of buckets with holes drilled in the bottom. For a cost conscious gardener this is … Continue reading Scooping soil with a spoon
With a brief instruction from some lovely lady on a You Tube video, I felt confident enough to give all the lavender a brutal haircut. I’m the kind of person that really needs to see something done so I can understand it, although I was still a little nervous and if it wasn’t for all that new growth coming in at the base I may … Continue reading Snippety snip, chippety chop
Finally I got to spend time in the garden. Well not technically in the veggie patch, but in my potting shed, potting up my lavender. After the craziness of the last couple of days, there is nothing more relaxing than potting up lavender. And it definitely had a calming effect on my little assistant Tim the Helper. It was a lovely afternoon, until we ran … Continue reading Lovely Lavender
But it took a lot of hard work and I’m pretty knackered. So it’s now safe to say I am fully over my melodramatic outburst of the other day. In fact let’s just pretend the whole sorry episode never happened. After a mow and some hard work the garden is now looking like something to be proud of. I’ve pruned and tied in my wayward … Continue reading Good news, I have fallen back in love with my garden
