A Little Labyrinth Magic

 

                      🌿 Sunrise over the labyrinth this morning 🌿

                   Stay cool and make it a great day !   ☀️

💛 Happy Summer Solstice Blessings ! ☀️

 

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Day five of Fog

 Yep day five of fog . We need the sun to come out now and dry out the hay .

Our  Cornish Elm has really gone downhill with the Dutch Elm disease  ...sigh....the leaves have only appeared on the lower  half of the tree .

On my way to the greenhouse this morning , I'm thinking how lush everything is today . We had torrential rain over-night  . No need to go around with the watering can today .

Incy wincy has made a new web , but he's hiding , just watching and waiting .

So , in the greenhouse we go ......

                                         Oh yeah !  ☺️

                                           Oh yeah !  ☺️

      Oh my goodness !  Here come the Sweet Peppers !

  This year I'm growing one called "Snackbite Red " Sown in February .

           I am quite impressed with these so far . Looking good !

                      Cucumbers 🌿.......

          ........just doing what Cucumber plants do 🌿🌿🌿🐝

The Primrose like leaves coming up in the Ledebouria pot has not gone unnoticed .

I will have to sort them out later on .

This old Epiphyllum needs re-potting . 

  I think it is a gorgeous red flowering one .

This was from my mum's plant , who in turn had a piece from my Grandmother's plant .

 I have no idea from where my Grandmother acquired it . No garden centres back in her day . 

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 I'll take off that yellowing Phylloclade . Not strictly being a leaf as such .....rather a modified stem having the function of a leaf .

I will make several cuttings from that .

 

                           Epiphyllum Curt Backberg ....broken ....grrrr.....  🐈‍⬛

 

             Epiphyllum Curt Backeberg flower .

🐈‍⬛I suspect a neighbour's cat has been in again and broken off a couple of branches from this Epie .  Grrr ......( it's not really a very safe place for a puddy tat in a cactus greenhouse ! )  🌵

      Oh well !  I gave these to a couple of friends at church this morning .

 I only give cuttings to people who I know have green fingers , will love them and can make them grow ! 

I fixed up netting to stop the cat coming in . I have also had to usher out the Robin who follows me everywhere .

   I rescue bees and butterflies with the aid of a children's rock pool fishing net .

                                      Oooh !  ☺️

   Kalenchoe ..I have several varieties and can't remember their names . 

               Mother of Thousands is it's more folky name . 

She is flowering right now and there are thousands of babies !

                  Gawd ! What am I going to do with them all !

      Let me know if you'd like one !

     Selenicereus chrysocardium ....... I call it my Whale's Tail Epie    🐋

It lives on my bathroom windowsill .

 It had some mealiebugs . I treated it and left it outside last night in the rain , to rinse it off .🌧️ Lordy didn't it rain hard last night !  🌧️🌧️🌧️

 It looks so much better this morning .  Refreshed !  

 I think the sun is trying to come out .☀️ Time for lunch and then off for a walk .

               Love and Peace 🕊️ Go and make it a great day !

                                         Love Debbie 💐x

Day Four of Fog

Well , the fog did lift for a little while first thing this morning . Just long enough for me to get a load of washing dry on the line . Yay !

Also just long enough for Colin to mow the meadow  .

I did a few things in the vegetable garden, a quick hoeing of weeds . You can see the fog drifting back in behind the trees .

And then it properly drifted in again .....

We went for our daily walk over at Goonhilly .

                                                       Click twice 

Heard a Cuckoo quite close by . Of course it stopped cuckooing when I started filming !

We could barely make out the massive satellite dishes  through the fog !

We haven't walked over here for so long . We've missed the Primroses  , but there are so many other lovely wild flowers and grasses  .

 I'm so glad we decided to come here today .

  Orchids 🌿  There are purple , pink and white spotted Orchids  🐝

The Orchids were too far for me to walk out to , the ground very squelchy and quite deep bog in places .

  Magical misty and mizzley .....

✨  Orchids and Cornish Piskies live here and it is on such a day as this that you might be lucky enough to see one  ✨✨✨

   

                 Purple Heather  🌿  Erica vagans   🐝🌿

                  Yellow Rattle 🌿 Rhinanthus minor   🐝🦋🌿

                             Rosa canina  🌿 Pink Dog Rose  🐝🌿

                               

                              Rosa canina 🌿 White Dog Rose

                           Trifolium pratense 🌿Red Clover

                               Pretty purple Vetch 🌿Vicia sativa

I tried to coax him out but ..no.... he knew my tickling the cobweb was not the real thing !  🕸️

                        Beautiful grasses !

                           ........and my favourite Meadowsweet  ❤️🌿

               A very enjoyable walk , lots of lovely little memories .

                              Then home .  Lit the fire .  

Yes I lit the fire ! I know elsewhere in the country you are all basking in hot sunshine ....not here ....maybe next week .

  Here we are having fog ......but not letting it stop us going for our walks .

 Yes ,  they are saying that Sunday it should start to warm up and Monday /Tuesday it will be hot .....my husband will be happy , he loves it .

   

Not so much me ..... I get heatstroke very easily .

Anyway I am very happy for all of you who love it and all our lovely visitors .

As for me today ....

I spent some time preparing some embroidery that I will be working on over the coming weeks . I'll be sitting in the shade .

 Any necessary gardening operations will be done very early in the morning .

                               Peace and Love 🕊️

                               

                                            Debbie 💐 x

 

Day three of Fog

 
                                  Day three of fog .

             I think it is starting to lift now . Very humid and warm .

I wasn't going to talk about cucumbers today , but on my way up to check everything in the greenhouse ....... I spotted this wee chap ! 

Now I am usually terrified of spiders , but this one is so tiny and so beautiful !

I know it's a blurry photo but I wanted to give you an idea of just how tiny it is .

I looked it up and guess what ? It's a Cucumber Spider ! Yes really ! 😄

Araniella cucurbitina ...... d'you wanna see some more pics of it ? Got some of him having his lunch later on ! ☺️ 

  

I wonder if he'll still be there tomorrow or if he'll move house  .

I fixed up some shade net up to keep it cool in there and to keep a local cat from going in !

                     All is well in the greenhouse today .

                  A new leaf has unfurled on my Monstera delicosa .

                              Cucumber Carmen

                  🌿 I might pick this one tomorrow ☺️🌿

                     Will the sun come out tomorrow ?

                                                   🌿☀️🌿

Foggy Days

                                        The beach

So , I've had three or four days of migraine misery and I'm now at the feeling washed out stage after it  .

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And the weather kind of matches how I'm feeling ....ugh .....

 It is foggy .........

                          Looking out to sea along the cliffs

                                 ......... this is day two of fogginess .

 It's not unheard of for it to hang around for two weeks . We didn't let it stop us from getting out for our walk .

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Anyway ,

 My new string has arrived !  I know that most of you out there won't understand ,  but look at it ! 🤩    Isn't it gorgeous ? !   😃  I'm in love !  

                   This little bit of string is making me feel SO happy !

Next year I will fix up this paracord before the cucumbers get scrabbling !

                    There are lots of flowers and fruits on them now .

 I fixed up the paracord and went round gently resting the cucumber vines on and around it . They can now climb up to the roof and over to the other side .

Everything is happily rambling , Epiphyllums ,  Bowiea volubilis , Tomatoes , Passiflora manicata , Hylocereus undatus , cucumbers .

             Wonderful ! There is a feeling of happiness in my greenhouse . 

            All is well .....

  So long as I can get in to water everything , everybody happy !

The cucumbers I'm growing ----

  Cucumbers - Merlin are about 7" and Carmen F1 about 13" to 16"                  

We are getting one every other day now . This is  Cucumber Carmen F1 . My granddaughter taking this one down to the kitchen . They are beautiful !

 My grandchildren have been great ! 

             They  have been so helpful weeding the gravel area for me .

         The garden is full of lovely flowers now .

We did have one lovely sunny day , but the wind was so strong and cold .

          The wind scorched back the leaves of my Voodoo lilies . 

....This Sauromatum venosum  voodoo lily had it's beautiful spathe snapped backwards .....such a shame ...these are fascinating plants .

Over in the shed ...

I am keeping a close eye on those Epiphyllum cuttings .

Epiphyllum Marilyn Monroe is growing away merrily, but not staying inside the plant support I gave her . No flower buds this year .  Maybe later on .

Nice new shoots and I have a cutting for my brother .🌿

Agaves again !  🌿

        Re-potting my bigger Agaves and potting up these tiny off shoots .

They should grow away happily now . 

                 Happy little Agave pups .

Some of the others that I tidied up . I really need more horticultural grit. It is so expensive . These need to have really good drainage .  This will have to do for the time being .

                      This makes me chuckle !

Disaster in the woodshed . Someone overloaded the shelving and I walked in to find it collapsed .

       I managed to recover most of the plants . Just one pelargonium smashed . 

    I want to get all of these plants out and into the garden as soon as possible .

 Cosmos , Hollyhocks , Pelargoniums and even the Dahlias if I can manage it .

           Another little job to do .   I'll show you tomorrow  . 

                            Cheerio fer now !  

                            Peace and Love  💐Debbie xxx

      No one's looking at this , you're all watching football !

                               

  

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