Early dawn

Posted on January 16, 2025January 16, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Classical music, Cocoa, Gardening, Insomnia, milky drink, Radio, Sleepless, telephone, TiredLeave a comment

Last night was another sleepless night. I tried a milky hot cocoa then quietly listening to a classical music radio station. I’d stayed downstairs because I have a chesty cough and it’s better to sleep sitting or pillowed up. Finally at just after 7am I gave up and went to bed. I took this photo at the top of the stairs as the faint light blush from the sunrise started to colour the sky. The view is blocked by various trees including a large straggly goat willow. I managed to get comfortable and slept. Then unfortunately someone rang me at 9.15am! After that I’ve been ringing other people so I suppose I’d better stay up.

Old pears.

Posted on October 25, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Food, Fruit, Gardening, Growth, Life, Memories, Pears, Plants, Sadness, Trees, Watering4 Comments

My pear tree didn’t set any pears this year. I think it was in a sulk because my hubby passed away and I think I neglected it. He used to water the garden for hours but I can’t get the hose pipe round into the main garden.

Moving forward, I’ve been getting help trying to trim back the overgrowth. I still have tall trees but some of the lower branches have been cut to allow more light in. How will it progress? I’m hoping for a wildlife garden but with a few brighter plants to cheer it up, (and plenty of pears again)

Hanging baskets quadrupled

Posted on October 10, 2024October 10, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Art, Experiment, Fine Art, Flowers, Gardening, incollage app, Life, Photo, quadruple, symmetricalLeave a comment

My hanging baskets are surviving cold conditions. I thought I would play with a photo to make an interesting pattern. I didn’t realise it would end up so complex.

Crocosmia Lucifloria in bud

Posted on October 8, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Crocosmia Lucifloria, Gardening, Green, Life, Memory, Poem, Poetry, Red, Shade, SunshineLeave a comment

Summer photo, a couple of years old

The red and green spark off each other

Scarlet red shines in the garden

Drifts of arching flowers in the bed.

Sunlight needed to keep them growing

Shade stopped them in their tracks.

Gone now, the memory of them still cheers.

Going

Posted on October 8, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bulbs, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Life, Memory, Plants, Time, wilted, winter pansiesLeave a comment

These were my plants in summer, now they are starting to wilt. I will be sad when they are gone. I want to time travel to next summer till the next lot of flowers can be planted. I might get some winter flowering pansies to cheer the yard up in the meantime.

I’ve bought loads of bulbs to put in the big garden for winter/spring. Somehow I need to get them planted.

Peaches

Posted on September 9, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Dorothy Clive garden, espaliered, Fruit, Gardening, Growing, Juicy, Memory, peaches, Photo, SummerLeave a comment

Peachs on a bush. This was an espaliered bush where the branches are held against the wall horizontally. This allows the fruit to set on the branches and grow bigger and more juicy as the summer goes on. The photo was taken at the Dorothy Clive garden n the Staffordshire countryside. I would have loved to have tasted one of them.

Backyard

Posted on August 10, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Back yard, Colour, Flowers, Gardening, Hanging baskets, Humour, Olympics, Poem, PoetryLeave a comment

There’s not enough space

I can’t get past!

I have to hop over the hose

Skip over the empty pots

Jump into the back door

When I’ve watered it all.

I’m watching the Olympics

Thinking could this be

A new green event?

Cut

Posted on August 4, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged destroyed, Gardening, Gone, hacked, House sparrows, Lost, nests, no life, Poem, Poetry, Roots, Sad, SadnessLeave a comment

My yard, flowers

Apple tree grows,

Next door? Hedge gone

Cut, hacked, defiled.

The view now, roofs

The birds homes shattered.

Where will the roost tonight,

Open up? Let in the light?

But shade gone, it will be blasted by heat.

The sun not shielded.

A sun trap,

No words can tell my despair?

They left a mess and an old fridge!

Well that’s nice to look at

Not!

Hedge gone!

Posted on August 4, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Destruction, Gardening, green gone, hacking down, Loss, Neighbour, nesting place gone, PainLeave a comment

I came home from a nice afternoon singing with a choir to find the hedge behind my neighbours back garden has gone. It’s because one of the houses have been sold and they need access. It’s a shame because the house sparrows used to nest in there. I feel like I’m under threat in all directions! The hedge on the other side of the house has been cut right back which was when we were burgled. It’s all men chopping the plants down. Tidy and lifeless. They will put some gravel down! Meanwhile my garden will survive somehow!

Quiet day

Posted on August 3, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Gardening, Life, Neighbours, next door but one, Quiet day, Tablets, Time, Tired, WeedsLeave a comment

Today was quite a quiet day. After yesterday I’m glad. I did have someone knock on the door asking if my garden gate led down an entry to the back of the next door houses. They had bought a house two doors up and wanted to get round the back?

I had to explain the entry was further down but since the shop on the corner has bought the land where the alley was you now have to go round into the next street and walk along a narrow path by the side of a garage to get round.

I have also been waiting for some medicine so I was pleased to get a text message to say it was ready I started to get ready to go out I realised it was 4.25 pm and they shut at 4.30 pm so I will have to wait until Monday.

Tomorrow might be more interesting. Fingers crossed.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Gardening