Dinotime

Posted on May 29, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged consumers, Dinosaur, Food, Fun, Gardening, Life, People, Plants, Shopping, Sore throat, ThingsLeave a comment

I went to a garden center a couple of days ago. It’s full of all sorts if stuff, a bit like temu in a big shed. To get to the plants you have to walk round lots of displays. There used to be a way through to avoid them but they’ve blocked the routes. If there was ever a fire I think we would be trapped. There’s jewellery, glass ware, pottery, clothes, shoes, houseplants, garden furniture and other stuff. Once you get to the plants there are a miriad of different garden plants (dinosaur included). I didn’t buy any as I need to sort my garden out first. On the way out we looked at toys and sweets and cakes. There were also three separate cafes/resteraunts. It was full of people, that’s where I think I caught this sore throat.

Upside down/ sideways poppies.

Posted on May 24, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black, Bright, Colourful, Gardening, Glowing, Green, Grey, Poppy, Red, reflected lightLeave a comment

I took this photo and realised that it’s been swivelled round somehow. I think is sideways or upside down. So it looks a little odd.

I also like the colours, red, green, pale grey and dark grey. And of course the black in the centre of the flowers, the colours are brilliant in the sunshine. The shapes give it an abstract feeling.

My sad garden.

Posted on May 22, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Gardening, Memory, Plants, pots, Spring, Summer, Thinking, Time, Wishing2 Comments

Normally by now I would be showing you beautiful photos of my garden, but I hardly go out the back door anymore. My hubby used to carry in bags of compost and I would refill pots with it and buy plants to fill them. But now I need help. I want to be sure I won’t fall or trip up! Must get some help. X

Disappointed

Posted on May 1, 2025 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged disappointment, Family, Friends, Gardening, Plants, pots, Sad, time off, Working3 Comments

My sister was going to visit this weekend but she’s got to work. I was really looking forward to seeing her. We would have bought some plants for the yard and I would have twisted her arm to help me put them in the pots round there.

I feel like I’ve abandoned my garden. I can’t do as much as I used to, I need to be stable and not risk falling over. Friends are busy and I have got into a situation where I don’t want to ask for help. I’m as disappointed in myself as anything else. I’m losing my ability to want to keep going.

Lovely flower

Posted on April 18, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Colourful, Flowers, Gardening, Hope, hopes, Life, Memory, Photo, Plans, Thinking, YardLeave a comment

I don’t remember taking this photo. I think it might be from a free photo library. It’s in my media files. Anyway I just want to start planting up my pots with lovely flowers like this. Ideally I’d like a friend to be here to keep an eye on me and perhaps help with heavier pots. I love creating a colourful garden in the yard for the summer. Fingers crossed I can still do it.

Snowdrops or snowbells?

Posted on April 5, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Flowers, Gallanthus, Gardening, Memory, snowbells, Snowdrops, Species, Time, Trees, Winter2 Comments

I know they are from the Gallanthus group of plants but I think these might be snowbells not snowdrops. They have bigger flowers than usual and more prominent markings. But there are many variations of these lovely little friendly flowers, and they look great spread in carpets under the bare canopy of winter trees. They only have a short flowering period before they go over and that’s the best time to split their clumps of roots “in the green” so that they become less congested and flower more freely.

We need rain….

Posted on March 31, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Blossom, blue skies, Cherry, dry, Gardening, Life, March, Pear, Watering, WeatherLeave a comment

What I suspected is true. Parts of the United Kingdom have had their driest March in 60 years. I even went out and watered my plant pots today as my daffodils are starting to wilt.

My Cherry and Pear trees still have tightly furled buds and are not showing any sign of opening, their blossoms held in stasis until the rain swells the plant cells to make them pop open.

March is usually wet and windy for at least part of the month. But not this year, the clouds lifted and blue skies sparkled. I guess the farmers are starting to panic now. It was so warm today I left my coat off and wore a tee shirt.

A garden centre

Posted on March 9, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1872, filling up, Flowers, Fruit, Gardening, Happy, Life, Poem, Poetry, Shopping, Shrubs, TreesLeave a comment

Where would you go on a shopping spree?

I’d buy more flowers

Bushes or trees

Filling the borders

Cheering for me!

I’d fill up my car

With baskets of bulbs

Glorious fruits

Perennials and shrubs

With a few new tools.

To complete the spree!

Soon

Posted on February 21, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged breezes, Colour, Flowers, Gardening, Life, Plants, Poem, Poetry, wishesLeave a comment

Primrose, daffodils, forget me nots,

Bring me riots of flowers

Cascading colours

Twining stems and leaves,

Blue skies, warm breezes

Am I too optimistic?

Pottery fun

Posted on February 12, 2025 Posted in Cat, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged BCB, Blue, cat head, Gardening, Orange, planting pocket, Pottery, Sketching in clay, Slip, Workshop2 Comments

Hope this will be a feature for my garden. Just made today, a planting pocket at a BCB workshop in stoke. Really enjoyed it. Now waiting for firing. The blue and orange are slip colours, there’s a little cat scratched into the left bottom corner. The black and white patch is newspaper holding the planting pocket open until the clay is hardened. I used leaves impressed in the surface for the design but the wet slip obliterated a lot of the details so then I scratched them back into the surface.

Mallaband-Brown

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