Sunday - ☀️ 🐝🦋

It has been fiercely hot today . I did a quick check around the garden early this morning .

Runner-beans still looking o.k.😊 I noticed a couple of shallots coming up at last !

Courgettes , Butternuts and Courgette plants are still there .

 Thirsty plants ...I will water them tomorrow morning ...trying to encourage them to put their roots down deeper .

 I'm so glad I rescued my chives ( they had been nibbled almost to the ground by bunnykins 🐰) .

 

I planted them in with my Lavender and the bees and butterflies are loving them !

My Snap-Dragons are looking their best in their second year . Also much loved by the bees .

 I sat watching them ...listening to their busy humming as they climb into each flower .

The climbing and short beans are looking o.k too .

        This beautiful butterfly closed it's wings just as I went to take a photo .....

                 .......... then opened up again ......

              

                                     Painted Lady  !

Too hot to do anything today . Made a mental note of things I have to do .

      Mostly weeding . ..... maybe tomorrow morning early .

 I want to transplant a couple of Echiums into the front garden .

    Yep , maybe tomorrow .

Self sown Echium seedlings . 🌿

Impatiens tinctoria ...lots of buds ..this Impatiens stays in a well behaved clump

unlike Impatiens glandulifera also known as Himalayan balsam which is a real thug .

  Native to tropical Africa and I assume that parts of the plant can be used for dye ... I might try it when I get some free time !

 The flower of this is beautiful white and fragrant . Watch this space for an update !

                        Weeds !                                        Weeds !

  Need to earth over these exposed Dahlia roots !

 Left over hazel poles...might make another teepee somewhere else in the garden .

I have a couple of climbing roses that would look nice on it and maybe some more Sweetpeas .

Meanwhile in the greenhouse ......

                 Epiphyllum Curt Backeberg 

                      Epiphyllum Clown 

Everytime I look her bud is swelling !

              May be tomorrow ......maybe during the night .

I will have one more check on these later on . Watch this space !

                                          🌿🌿🌿

Anyway .....

I sat in the summerhouse for a while sorting out a vintage kit I bought on ebay .

 

 The colours were a nightmare to sort out , the instructions called one batch of greens " olive greens " and the other "forest greens" ..I'm still not sure which is which ! And pale brown and very pale brown very difficult to decide which was which lol ! but I got them all into their colour shades and into neat bundles and I think I'm almost ready to start  . 

Yes , the observant amongst you will see that the picture on the front of the kit has blue flowers  🩵🙄

   It's o.k. because after  going through the instructions several times I found this ...

                              

                                 🩷     Phew ! That's o.k then ! 🩷  

           Me separating the pale brown from the very pale brown and white wool .

I like stitching with silk but my hands are a bit sore with all the weeding so I thought I'd switch over to crewel wool for a little while .

                             So hot today !  The sea so calm .

It is going to be very hot again tomorrow . So I'll be up early to do the watering .

 I hope you are all enjoying a nice long bank holiday weekend and maybe also half term school break .

         Take care in the hot sunshine and enjoy !  ☀️

               Love and Peace  💐🕊️🐝 Debbie x