Thursday, ‘William day’ and last week he requested, ‘Strawberry Art’. Thank goodness for ideas on the internet, as I was thinking, ‘Oh heck!’ However, I wanted to do something to make us laugh!
Cool or what? 🤣🍓
Anyway, we had fun ! And off they went to adorn William’s kitchen!
It being a warm, dry Thursday, lunch outside was much appreciated.
In the garden, there are a few, new things going on…Dahlia ‘Starlight’ being one of them…I sowed these from seed:
Similarly, Cosmos is now flowering. Cosmos, for me, always seems to take ages to flower! But it’s very pretty and well worth the wait.
Geranium Rozanne is going great guns in various places in the garden.
Another, smaller flowered geranium has just started to bloom; it’s mingling with this Yellow Loosestrife.
Fuchsias used to be the ‘in’ plant when I first started gardening. I grew them from cuttings. It’s quite easy to grow standard fuchsias, too, as long as you pinch out the right bits! But I’ve not seen any standard Fuchsias in the nurseries, for a very long time! I only have one variety of Fuchsia in the garden…and that’s because a) I love it …and b) its name!
Devonshire Dumpling! I grew these from tiny plug plants, last year.
Meanwhile, Dahlia ‘Garden Wonder’ just keeps on blooming…
And this, below, is Daucus Carota, a wild form of the cultivated carrot. I grew these from seed. Notice the fly hanging on at the bottom rhs. It’s some kind of sawfly, we think!
And this, below, is Hemp Agrimony…I didn’t plant it, it just turned up! The seed must’ve been blown here.
Apparently, Hemp Agrimony is a tall, perennial plant found in damp grassland, marshes, fens and wet woodland…and, strangely, our garden! Its flowers attract all kinds of insects, including butterflies. So it’s very welcome here, even though it’s not in the dampest of places!
Finally, most people might think I’m bonkers getting excited over this…but on Wednesday, Mr Snippets presented me with :
I just happened to mention, one day, that I’d like some old fashioned wooden seed trays and he went into his workshop and knocked up this one from some pieces of wood that he had hanging around. It’s better than a bunch of flowers and will last a darn sight longer! 😁
