Petunias

Posted on July 21, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Gardening, Hanging basket, Life, Plant, Summer, summer is icumen inLeave a comment

Flowers everywhere. I love these deep pink petunias. It’s a close up of one of my hanging baskets. When the sun shines they seem to glow.

The head in the background is a ceramic one I made about 30 years ago. It’s got a few flowers trailing from it that managed to survive the winter.

There is an ancient song from the 14th century I think?

Sumer is icumen in,
Loude sing cuckou!
Groweth seed and bloweth meed,
And springth the wode now.
Sing cuckou!

Ewe bleteth after lamb,
Loweth after calve cow,
Bulloc sterteth, bucke verteth,
Merye sing cuckou!
Cuckou, cuckou,
Wel singest thou cuckou:
Ne swik thou never now!

We sing this at choir practice (with slightly less difficult wording).

My back yard

Posted on July 19, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged bizzy lizzies, Flowers, Fushias, garde, Hanging baskets, n, Petunia, Sunshine, Yard2 Comments

A small space crammed with flowers. My sister and a friend helped me hang the baskets and cut back a lot of overhanging ivy that was shading the yard.

The main garden is quite overgrown with trees, but this is overgrown with an abundance of flowers. My plants have not needed to be watered too much because of all the rain, but now the sun’s arrived it’s glorious out there. No room for me. I keep tripping up on pots and the watering can, I admit I have to water with a hose as I cannot lift the weight of the can. I’m glad I’ve got a stick.

I often see mad gardens on TV shows so I like to try and emulate them.

And my apple tree which was behind me when I took these photos? It’s covered in big apples!

Flowers

Posted on July 11, 2024 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged #bandofsketchers, Art, ArtRage app, Drawing, Flowers, Plant, Prompt, Sketching, SunflowerLeave a comment

Trying to catch up… A quick sketch of a sunflower in Artrage app. #bandofsketchers prompt flowers…

It’s been a long time since I’ve done a band of sketchers prompt. I’ve decided to resume so I at least post a bit of art here. I’ve been feeling down for too long. I don’t know if this will help, but I’ve got to try.

Petunias

Posted on June 18, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged baskets, Colour, Flowers, Gardening, Life, Petals, Petunia, Plants, Poem, Poetry, TimeLeave a comment

I like petunias, so bright

Shine in the light

Bedding plant winner,

Trailing around the pots

Hanging from baskets

Tough as old boots

I love this gem

Of colour on a stem!

Spring

Posted on June 11, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1966, Flowers, Garden, inspired, Life, Plants, Poem, Poetry, Season, SpringLeave a comment

What is your favorite season of year? Why?

Flowers open

First daffodils then tulips

Some promise of primroses

Helibores nod their head

Leaves unfurl and spread

Yellows and golds attract the bees

Their eyes subtle patterns insects see.

Guiding them to nectar

From flowers and trees.

That’s the season set to please!

Silver birches

Posted on May 28, 2024May 28, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Birches, Colour, Flowers, Life, lilac, noon, Poem, Poetry, Roses, Season, Spring, Summer, WoodsLeave a comment

Sunlight on birches

Silver and brown.

Spring is a blooming

In woods and on ground.

Bluebells are over

Now comes the new

Garlands of roses

Covered in dew

Clematis climbing

Lilac are blue

Purple and white

Flowers scented too.

Remember the birches

Other trees shine

Oak tree and walnut

Hornbeam and lime

Oh lovely summer

In you come soon

When sunlight is brightest

At wondrous noon.

Flowers

Posted on May 24, 2024 Posted in Memories, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Chelsea flower show, Colours, Digital drawing, Drawing, Flowers, sketchfu site, SketchingLeave a comment

Drawing of flowers done on the sketchfu app 6 years ago. This was influenced by the Chelsea Flower Show that happens in May every year. My favourite plants are included here, marigolds, pansies, poppy, for instance. I hope my yard looks a bit more like this in a month or so.

Bench

Posted on May 18, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Beauty, Bench, bloom, Colour, Dorothy Clive garden, fields, Flowers, Green, Life, Poem, Poetry, Rhododendrons, SpringLeave a comment

Why are you facing inwards bench?

Can’t you see the beautiful view?

The green and yellow hills

Beyond the fence…

Tiny farmhouses dotted alongside feilds

Sun shining on a golden harvest?

But I look in, said the bench

I see the quarry garden

Dug out of soil and stone

Carved into a bowl

Lined with rhododendrons

Azaleas, beech trees, oaks

Full of colour now, gaudy flowers

A waterfall splashes and ploshes

In the quarry cauldron

Hidden sculptures in maze like paths

Yes beyond the fence is lovely

But the Dorothy Clive garden is special.

Poppy

Posted on May 16, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Garden, Himalayan poppy, Mecanopsis, Poppies, Poppy, Welsh poppyLeave a comment

Poppy at Growthpoint allotment site. The pop of colour cheered me up yesterday. I can’t resist them. I have Welsh poppies in my garden, happy yellows and the occasional orange one. I once managed to grow a blue mecanopsis, (himalayan) poppy in the garden, but it never seeded itself and failed to grow again

Dorothy Clive garden

Posted on May 13, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged bloom, Dorothy Clive garden, Flowers, Fun, Garden, Gardening, Life, Rhododendrons, Snow, VisitLeave a comment

Wondrous garden in the countryside on the borders of Staffordshire, Cheshire and Shropshire. In Willowbridge I think? Every spring my hubby and I would go to see the rhododendrons in flower in the Quarry garden, sometimes they were fully in bloom, other years the blooms hadn’t opened or were going over. Today they were perfect. I just wish my hubby was here still to see them. I’d been to the hospital for more tests so this was a treat for my sister who had come with me. She held onto me on the steeper slopes. Today it was very blustery and overcast with a cold wind but at least it wasn’t snowing like it had been in some previous years.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Flowers

Petunias

My back yard

Flowers

Petunias

Spring

Silver birches

Flowers

Bench

Poppy

Dorothy Clive garden