Bench and moss

Posted on June 18, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Broken, Garden, Green, Growth, Life, Metal, Moss, Old, Plants, pots, wooden benchLeave a comment

My garden bench looks a bit worn out. There’s a hole where the wood has rotted. Now it’s growing moss. There’s a small strawberry plant in a pot, and a few empty pots which I might fill up with flowers letter on.

I’m posting about gardening, but I haven’t been out much. The rain has been pouring down all month. Less flaming June, more flipping wet June!

I took this photo today, I might buy another bench. Perhaps a metal one? In the meantime I will continue to use this as a potting bench for now.

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!

Thistles

Posted on June 17, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Green, Growth, Houses, Life, maintained, pavements, Plants, Streets, Thistle, vegetation, WeedsLeave a comment

Plants love growing, their seeds sneak in cracks, send down roots and push up paving, this thistle is an example of one. Looking round my area the streets are less littered with litter and more by plants. I’m not calling them weeds, they are wild vegetation. I don’t really mind them, except where they grow in front of and on doorsteps. I do think that the streets used to get maintained in a better way. I don’t think I’d like a lot of weed killer to be used, but I hope things can improve soon. Hopefully owners could do a little hand weeding.

Added shade

Posted on June 16, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, UncategorizedTagged Acrylic on canvas, Bees, Double flowers, eco friendly, Finished, Gardening, Life, Plants, Rose, single flowers3 Comments

I added shading to a rose painting I started a couple of weeks ago to give it more depth. It is one of those blush roses, with pink and red on the edges of the petals and some yellow further down. Roses are beautiful flowers, but the simplest of them, like wild roses, Rosa rugosa, are better for insects to pollenate and collect nectar. That is because the petals are open and the central part of the flower is easily accessible.

Unfortunately a lot of flowers are now being bred to have twice the petals (doubles). They look beautiful and interesting, but they make it hard to pollenate by insects like bees and they are frequently infertile so they don’t produce viable seeds.

Look for bee friendly plants if you are looking for flowers for your garden.

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!

Sad marigolds

Posted on June 10, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Cold, Gardening, Growing, June, Life, marigolds, Plants, Rain, seasons, Spring, Summer, Weeds4 Comments

Marigolds in a bag, something seems to have broken the flowers off. I’ve got to get them planted but yesterday the rain fall was stupendous. Today the weather was better, but I am very tired. Tomorrow could be the day they get planted. Meanwhile, the forecast is for more rain and cold winds coming from the north. June seems to be below par for the time of year. But I’m determined to get my garden looking good instead of full of overgrown weeds!

Barrow and aqueligia

Posted on June 4, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Aqualegia, bee paintings, blocks of wood, Craft, growthpoint, Open day, Photo, Plants, wheelbarrowLeave a comment

I’ve just been to Growthpoint, it’s a place where you can go if you suffer from anxiety or mental health issues. I was pleased that the bee paintings I did on small circles of wood have all sold. I managed to buy some plants, they are for sale all the time but today was an open day. So I got eight plants for 50 pence each. I’ve got to sort the yard out, I hope to do that this weekend if the weather is OK. Then I can plant the ones I bought. Today is a good day.

Look outside

Posted on June 1, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Bricks, Gallery, Green, outside the box, Plants, Poem, Poetry, Sunset, Thought, Time, View, Wall, WorldLeave a comment

In a gallery

But looking outside

Fresh green against brick red

Daylight catches the wall

As sun starts to set.

Always look outside the box

The view might change

Your thoughts too….

Chances are

You’ll see something new.

Green street

Posted on May 31, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged black plastic bags, Houses, housing, Litter, Plants, Rain, rooms, Rubbish, student, student lets, ThistleLeave a comment

A large spiky thistle growing outside a terraced house front door. Why? These are student lets’ and a lot of them are empty because the students have already left. I guess the landlords will come back and refurbish the houses or rooms. There was a lot of rubbish in the street, black plastic bags, litter and bits of old furniture. If they don’t clear away the plants their roots will take over and get into the foundations. I think its worse because everything has grown rampant because of all the rain we’ve been having.

Alliums

Posted on May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged alliums, Colourful, Day out, Dorothy Clive garden, Garden, Gardening, onions, Plants, VisitLeave a comment

Alliums, a form of ornamental onion. Photo taken at the Dorothy Clive garden today. I really enjoyed seeing such a lovely garden. I wish I could reproduce it at home. Gardening is such a, wonderful skill. I wish I had the energy to do it

Mallaband-Brown

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