Part done…

Posted on June 14, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged a birthday treat, Colour, Flowers, Gardening, Hanging basket, Photograph, Plants, pots, Weeds4 Comments

My birthday treat, hanging baskets up, some plants on the wall. I still need to empty some pots that have weeds in and do the rest of the wall and on the ground. Sometimes I will place pots on top of other pots that have soil in them so they get more light and the roots can grow down into the lower pot. Possible further plants I want are trailing lobelia, fushias, pelargoniums, nemesia, montbrecia, busy lizzies, sweet peas and oriental poppies.

I have a hosta in flower, lilies that are away from where the cats can go (it’s pollen is poisonous to them), a hydrangea, Welsh poppies. I also have an apple tree that my hubby put in that I’m trying to trail horizontally against the fence.

My main concern is the garden is very shaded now as my neighbour has put an 8 foot fence in. I’m hoping the shelter it offers will create a microclimate and allow the plants to last well into the autumn.

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.

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

Poppy’s are out!

Posted on May 14, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Buds, Closed, dappled sun, Green, opened, Plants, Poppies, popping!, Red, Spring, SunlightLeave a comment

Last week when I saw these on the local allotment they were hardly in bud. Not anymore! They are glorious. The red pops against the greens. The sunlight splashes down onto the plants and paving. A cool breeze made light shimmer over the heads of the poppies. What a warm sunlit spring it’s been. But we might have a drought!

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.

Finished planting pocket

Posted on March 26, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Black, Blue, Ceramics, Colours, Glaze, Orange, planting pocket, Plants, Pottery, Slip1 Comment

This is the planting pocket I made at BArts pottery project a few weeks ago. It was made with rolled out terracotta clay and coloured with bright slip. I used plants to impress patterns into it’s surface. It looked OK, but the colours intensified during firing. I think they are almost too bright. I hope when it has soil and a plant in it, it will look nicer. X

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?

Rose

Posted on February 3, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged climber flowers, dog rose, Gardening, Life, Plant, Plants, rambler, Rose, Scent, SpringLeave a comment

Soon I’ll know if the roses I planted last year have survived the winter. I put in five of them. Climbers and ramblers. I wanted them to grow on the remains of the hedge our neighbour (a builder) had torn out and made our garden vulnerable to being burgled two October ago. I’m hoping they will make a prickly, but beautiful barrier. I love scented roses and I might try putting a few more in this spring. You can get bare rooted ones that you just use a slit trench (push the spade into the soil and make a slit) to plant. Fingers crossed.

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)

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.

Mallaband-Brown

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