After several days of trying to post this picture the right way up I've given up. Rotating makes no difference so here are the forget-me-nots you asked for Alice.................sideways on ! Just hope you're not using a desktop computer.
Love from Cat, xxx
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It's a very uplifting time of year when there is a sudden splash of vibrant Spring Colour after the gloom of winter. I love seeing every thing starting to bud and grow and the leaves and blossom covering the trees again.
Me too. It never disappoints does it Caroline and every year when I see the first signs (usually crocuses) I'm like an excited child ! xx
Yes, SO pretty! I used to have forget-me-nots (and aubretia and blue and pink bells, grape hyacinths+) in my garden: I love blues, mauves together with white, stunning!
Plus one year (seed dropped by wind or bird?) the most incredible poppy-type flowers suddenly appeared. Leaves, buds and everything like poppies but the flowers SO frilly, bit like many many petalled carnations. I kept taking photos of them because the flower only lasted very few days and wind blew all petals off. Short-lived but WOW amazing.
Can't post a pic coz on my PC there's no button or way to attach/upload pix here.
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oh forgot: the flowers were delicate PINK not poppy red. So pretty with grey-green foliage/leaves of it.
Muddled. Yes I have some stunning poppies which I think the birds were responsible for planting but, like yours, they last only a few days ; pity isn't it. But that just makes them all the more special. x
I assume that's why they have that name. No matter how thorough I am in weeding them out they won't be beaten.
They have a special meaning for me because when my mum died and the family home was vacated, I took some clumps from her beautiful garden and brought them home.
So now when I look through my window she's everywhere. And when they've finished, there's the apple tree she planted from a pip which I also have. xx
Yes it's my favourite time of year Angela. Pity everything seems to finish all at once but that's the signal for me to trundle off to the garden centre and buy loads of bedding plants like begonias, marigolds, pansies and whatever else takes my fancy. xx
Just like my garden cat3.........so long as I keep my eyes shut !!!!
Must say gardening was never my strong point. I used to grow veg but now only have a small garden. This I dont mind as like I said I dont enjoy gardening.
Although I do appreciate a nice garden and that pic ( even sideways ) looks like a wonderful garden to relax in.
Thanks Paxo. It's my retreat 'cause no one else is remotely interested, except for my neighbour with whom I share cuttings and garden-talk through our adjoining hedge.
My mum had a massive garden and grew all her own veg. but my brother & I used to hide behind the pea frames and eat most of the peas, disposing of the pods in the fields next door.
Kids are horrid at times. And it saddens me now I recall all the work she put in to growing all this stuff to help make ends meet. xx
I was the same growing up. My mums garden is huge although now mainly lawns and flowers. When growing up my grandad gave me the love of growing veg but we to had no success with growing peas. Ok ok so I used to empty the pods and eat the peas while leaving the pod on the plant. Oh how I thought I was crafty. I wish I was fit enough to pass on this with my grandaughters but hopefully the small scale growing carrots in a pot will be sufficient.
Glad to say my granddaughters have moved on from pushing a leaf into a pot and expecting it to be a tree by the following week.
Had a bit of a setback gardening as our neighbour decided to pile a load of brickd against our fence. Result being fence falling down taking green house with it.
Neighbours response was " I see your fence has collapsed" . No s##t sherlock ? Still picking glass up over a month later. Think plastic sheeting will be used next. Plant growing is on hold this year ......
Oh I think he knows he is.....unfortunately he also knows that I can have trouble with my temper and seems to know how best to get a reaction. Tried talking but just stares blankly waiting for a reaction, which fortunately for me my wife stepped in and calmed me before I lost it.
Unfortunately he is not the most kindly of people and has little to do with others around us. I must say the feeling is mutual and I pray that kama will interseed. What goes around and all that sort of stuff.
I just feel life is just to short to waste time on people like that and he may have done me a favour as my wife was not keen on me having a green house. To much glass and me prone to falling was a little unerving for her.
It's very, VERY tricky to get the government to listen to your demands when you live in such a palatial abode. I've even considered opening up the gardens to the public, but the idea of having everyday plebs wandering around my home fills me with dread. And bile.
I'm sure you understand my dilemma. Head injury or not, I'm better than that, clearly
Seems so unfair when some have had a second home, or a moat or duck-pond.
I suppose that's just for MPs and Lords isn't it.
Still, a wildlife garden can be really attractive and will attract a better type of creature than the awful riff-raff which I can now see would be intolerable.
My mum was 'green fingered' and having a very large garden and little money, she had to learn how to harvest seeds, take cuttings and mix concrete for pathways etc. etc .................... So I had an excellent teacher.
Wow! Thats some garden! How'd do you get the flowers to stick sideways lol.
Actually looking at that beutifaul garden can I give you my address? Only my garden is in severe need of a make-over, especially if it has to come anywhere near to compete with yours.
Thank you Geoff. I've done 'make overs' for friends in the past but nowadays I'm finding the upkeep of my own more & more challenging ! Still love it though. xx
Love your garden Cat, must admit without my garden, I'd go mad. When other half is having a bad day & I struggle to cope with his moods, it's iff to the garden for me & take out MY frustration on the weeds. An hour later & I'm calm again plus everything looks so much better.
I'm sure you have other abilities that would leave me dumbfounded Molly. Wouldn't it be boring if everyone was interested in, and good at, the same thing.
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