This week we have seen high winds, cool nights and sunny spells. I am at that stage when I am eager to get everything out into the garden, but it’s all a bit of a risk. Is anyone else feeling … Continue reading
The week began with a couple of frosty nights which nipped at some of my plants that I had transfered to the greenhouse. We had sun and rain to add to the mix. A typical Spring week perhaps? The bumblebees are buzzing, the birds are nesting and I saw a large yellow butterfly on Tuesday.
Let’s take a look at this week’s six.
Photo one is of some of the ‘White Magic’ Muscari. I always find white flowers hard to get in focus when photographing.
Picture two shows the Japanese Quince just coming into flower.
Photo three is of some ‘Green’ Alkanet with its blue flowers! I must keep an eye on this as I believe is is fast growing.
Photo four shows the pretty flowers of Comfrey, almost ready to bloom. I’m keeping this in a pot to stop it spreading too much, and I hope to use it to make some liquid fertiliser.
The fifth photo is of some lovely Forget-Me-Nots.
Finally, if you look closely, the Lilac is coming into bud. It looks much better in real life, the photo doesn’t show it at its best.
Thank you for joining me for this #SixOnSaturday post. I hope that you enjoyed it. Jim is now our host for this gardening meme and you can find his blog here where you will be able to catch up with links from all the other folks who take part.
Happy gardening
Rosie
As March blew out with some strong winds, will April be full of Spring showers?
I have a very mixed bunch of items for you this week.
First photo goes to these Glistening Inkcaps which have popped up in a corner of the garden. The top left one in the corner of the photo has been nibbled by slugs and I think it looks like an alien.
Second photo is of the wildlife pond that we are working on. I am very excited about it. The recent rain has been filling up the pond and we will soon sort out the edging to hide the liner. I went ahead and bought my first pond plants; I have a water hawthorn which is already flowering, 2 tiny fringed water lilies, some pond weed, Marestail, Water Forget-me-not, Marsh Marigold, Dwarf Spearwort, Great Spearwort, Brookline, Upright Water Milfoil, Marsh Pennywort and some Ragged Robin for the edge.
Third photo is of two tiny pink Pulmonaria flowers surviving after the badger has been trampling the flower bed.
Photo four goes to the Forget-me-nots which are just starting to flower.
I spotted this ladybird on the Rock Roses – hopefully she’s found some tasty aphids.
Final photo goes to a tiny Violet, I do love these quite unassuming flowers.
Thank you for joining me for this #SixOnSaturday post. I hope that you enjoyed it. Jim is now our host for this gardening meme and you can find his blog here where you will be able to catch up with links from all the other folks who take part.
Happy gardening
Rosie
After missing last Saturday (snowy weather that pressed pause in my garden) we are back with more of a seasonal selection of flowers.
Looking around this week, the daffodils are making up for lost time and the recent rains have spruced the ground up making everything look a lot healthier.
The first photo is of ‘new to this garden,’ Tête á Tête. I have been waiting patiently for them to appear and then these popped up when I wasn’t looking!
Second photo goes to this lovely purple Hellebore. Of course all the flowers are facing down and impossible to photograph without a little handy help!
Third photo is one of several emerging Hyacinths.
Fourth photo is of some mauve Polyanthus, I always think that these are from a cross breed of Primroses and Polyanthus as they all grow together, but I’m not sure.
Fifth photo is of the more common Daffodil. Mine are quite late this year, compared to other gardens.
Sixth picture goes to the Camellia which is now full of blooms.
Thank you for joining me for this #SixOnSaturday post. I hope that you enjoyed it. Jim is now our host for this gardening meme and you can find his blog here where you will be able to catch up with links from all the other folks who take part.
Happy gardening
Rosie
Conversations With My Vegetable Garden: Growing Vegetables With The Help Of The Vegetable Garden Fairies by Sarah Rajkotwala
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Conversations With My Vegetable Garden is a non-fiction spirituality book which is set in the author’s South Australia garden.
The book continues on from discoveries that Rajkotwala has made and also written about in her other works: The Year Of Talking To Plants and Fairy Sparkles. She uses her psychic abilities to converse with plants and fairies who tend her gardens; it’s an interesting concept to consider.
In this book the plants and fairies offer wise words about planting and how to look after the plants as well as discussing the long-term issues on our planet caused by over-use of chemicals and factory-made fertilisers.
The book certainly makes you think about the benefits of being out in Mother Nature and the changes we can all make to restore plants and trees to help re-balance our world. I particularly liked the last section that included a list of vegetables and their spiritual and nutritional values.
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Book description
What would you do if you could talk psychically to plants? What would they say? What would you do if you could talk to the plants? Psychic author Sarah Rajkotwala can do just that and in this, her third spiritual book, decides to explore the internal spiritual world of her vegetable garden. What do the vegetables say when they are conversed with? Can they talk back? What does a vegetable fairy do? Find out these fascinating spiritual discoveries in this unique look into the spiritual life of your vegetable garden. How does being able to talk to your vegetable garden, affect the way you garden in it? Would it change the way you garden or approach nature? Would nature change its approach to you? If the garden is indeed conscious, how will it affect the whole of society to know that their garden knows them, observes them, and has an opinion about their life? What do vegetable garden fairies think on different subjects such as organic gardening and self-sufficiency? In the back of the book there is an alphabetical list of common garden vegetables, here Sarah writes about their energetic qualities and some of their key features, as dictated by the vegetable fairies themselves. Is there a fairy in your vegetable garden? Yes, there is, and it helps your garden every day.
Spring is my favourite time of year. I get very excited by warmer days, longer daylight hours, birds nesting and bees awakening. Something happens to my fingers each springtime; they get itchy to plant things!
I’m a plant addict!
Confession 1: I’ve already planted lots of seeds!
Confession 2: I’ve gone too early with some of them🙄
Confession 3: Everyday I proudly beam over my growing seedlings, clucking round them like a mother hen.
So when I spotted this tweet by Páraig (from the three hairs blog) this week, I couldn’t help retweeting it and wanting to share it with my readers. It sums things up to a ‘T’ at my place.😉
Now let’s resume normal transmissions and get on with SoS.
Photo one is of my ‘green’ hellebore. I don’t know the variety, but I do know that I have left the plant too long it a pot and it needs re-potting or planting out in the garden. It got put into a pot when we moved house and I admit to forgetting about it. But after it flowers I shall plant it into a new flower bed.
Photo two is an orchid which has been battling with woolly aphid all winter. The aphids came in, I believe, on a new orchid which they destroyed. I have been picking them off by hand on a daily basis rather than spraying with chemicals.
Third photo is of a rather sad Primrose, I didn’t catch it at its best and the rest are in between blooms.
Fourth photo is a sample of my nasturtiums. There’s a story to these… I have not planted these before and I had plant envy seeing them in other gardens. I had a pack with 6 varieties, each pack only had 15 seeds, which didn’t sound many at the time, so I planted 2 tray fulls, expecting several weeks until the seedlings were large enough to pot-on. Well…7 days after planting…they needed potting on😮. Varieties are: Alaska mixed, Jewel Cherry Rose, Empress of India, Jewel mixed, Gleaming Gold and Trailing mixed -lesson learnt – nasturtiums germinated fast!
Fifth photo is of this tiny white orchid (variety unknown) which is also flowering.
Sixth photo is of the more sedate and slower growing Salvia (Blaze Of Fire), 11 seedlings from 12 seeds. I’m happy with that germination rate and speed.
Thank you for joining me for this #SixOnSaturday post. I hope that you enjoyed it. Jim is now our host for this gardening meme and you can find his blog here where you will be able to catch up with links from all the other folks who take part.
Happy gardening
Rosie
With very little flowering in my garden recently, I took a two week break over the festive period.
So what plants are waving hello today?
Starting with this lovely vibrant pink Hyacinth, just one from a bowl given to me as a festive gift. The others are slowly emerging.
Second photo goes to this white variety of Jasmine. This was given to my husband two years ago for his April birthday when it was in full bloom. I have taken a successful cutting of it. Neither flowered last year, but now both are budding up this January.
Third photo is of some ‘mystery’ bulbs shooting up. My best guess is that they are bluebells, but as that is quite early, they may be Hyacinths. I can’t remember where I planted everything, so they will be a surprise when they flower.
Not far away from the mystery bulbs, the flowering currant is forming buds.
Fifth photo goes to the yellow winter Jasmine which is brightening up a wooden fence.
Lastly is a wonderfully ‘out of focus’😏Polyanthus in my favourite purple colour.
Thank you for joining me for this #SixOnSaturday post. I hope that you enjoyed it. Jim is now our host for this gardening meme and you can find his blog here where you will be able to catch up with links from all the other folks who take part.
Happy gardening
Rosie
A book a day is bliss😍
Welcome to my world: digging, harvesting and other stuff
bestselling author, also known as Victoria Hawthorne
A quest for the magic in life, language, and literature
Tonight I Dream. Tomorrow I Do!
Part of something bigger in a small town garden.
Sayling Away
Gardens, gardeners, and growing ideas
adventures in my gardens
author
Feel the rain, take a book and have a cuppa:-)
Sharing thoughts on the books I read, new authors, favourite authors, classics re-visisted
Damp and in the middle of nowhere
Enjoying life. In Ireland. With my family.
Ideas from a Suffolk garden
Rosie Amber 