🌺Marching Through The Month. Spring Flowers In My Hampshire Garden For #SixOnSaturday #GardeningTwitter #GardeningMakesMeHappy

Posted on March 18, 2023 by Rosie Amber

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

📚’A #nonfiction #spirituality book which is set in the author’s South Australia garden’. Rosie’s #Bookreview Of Conversations With My Vegetable Garden by @SarahRajkotwala

Posted on March 13, 2023 by Rosie Amber

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.

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🏵Confessions Of A Gardening Addict: A Fool’s Spring. Latest Update From My Hampshire Garden #SixOnSaturday #GardeningMakesMeHappy #GardeningTwitter

Posted on March 4, 2023 by Rosie Amber

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.

Happy gardening

Rosie

🌺My First #SixOnSaturday For 2023. Sharing My Plants And Flowers. Hosted by @JamesLStephens #WinterFlowers #GardeningTwitter #Gardens

Posted on January 7, 2023 by Rosie Amber

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.