My Pride and Joy

A good gardening weekend. I planted about 120 bulbs, some in the garden and some in pots. This meant weeding and digging first and so I did it in easy bites, having a little lie down and reading an old "Saint" book in between. Also took about 150 cuttings from various plants and tucked them up in my new pride and joy, a little plastic greenhouse. I've been trying to find a good old fashioned cold frame but they seem to be horrendously expensive and I have a horror of broken glass so this seems like a good compromise. Any bets on what percentage will survive?
Now here's a positive thought. I had said that over the last couple of weeks I didn't do half the things I had planned, but this morning I thought "I did at least half the things I planned" and felt much better.
If you have been, thanks for reading

If you don't like spiders........

I wrote about the autumn garden spiders a while ago and getting them to cut bits of leaf out of their webs. The little ones are getting bigger now and several lurk in my tomatoes. This picture is of a spider that turned up a couple of years ago in my last garden. It is a wasp spider (bet you can't guess why ho ho) She made a beautiful nest for a big paper ball a bit like a nigella seed head and guarded it well until the cold snap that came. We moved that year so I don't know if another one turned up next year.

Secret Garden Part 2

Here are some more photos of the lovely garden at the place where I work. Please respect my copyright in them. When I get permission I will post a few that show some of the paintings that are hanging in this open air gallery but if you come to the shop and buy a newspaper you can go and sit there yourself

Secret Garden Part one

I'm working some extra hours this week so I can take a break next week. So for once I took a proper lunch break and ate my sandwiches in the garden of the place where I work. It's a very old building with a very old garden. The bosses mum has been doing it up and then someone suggested that the art gallery could overflow there in the summer. I don't know why I haven't been out there for a while but it blew me away. If I ever feel like packing in this job the garden and access to it might just change my mind. I am going to tantalise you with just one photo for now but there will be more and they are worth it i promise. There was a baby blackbird there but having surveyed me with that serious look that baby birds have, and not moved as I walked round it, it got camera shy so I'll try again tomorrow. You see, there are silver linings everywhere if you take the trouble to look.

Last of the Sweet Peas

Although it isn't even September yet(well not quite) things in my garden seem to be packing up shop and going home already. I know these sweet peas are probably quite late and they put on a great show for me this year but I wish they would last a little longer. Do you associate a particular flower with a particular person. The sweet peas are my mother's sister, her husband grew them for competition and he often gave her some to put in the house. Anenomes are my nan and freesias are a good friend's mum. My mum is forget-me-nots.Not sure what I am, I'll let you know!