Gool Peran Lowen ! - Happy St Piran's Day !

 

Another frosty morning ! That's three or four mornings in a row now . Followed by beautiful sunny day .

About 7am I go up to uncover the seedlings in the greenhouse . Husband has painted the veg trug and it now awaits it's new lining . The new fence is gorgeous ! I hadn't expected it to be as nice as this . This is like National Trust quality ! 

Even got a super dooper gate with a perching post for buzzards to sit on .  

Over the lovely fence , we have a frosty and misty morning view . Can you see the deer track going across the meadow ?  Yesterday I saw a beautiful deer at the top of the meadow . I had my camera but by the time I'd switched it on and got in into focus , the deer was scrabbling up the Cornish hedge , over and away across the fields behind . . . all I could see was it's white backside , so nimble and I was amazed it could climb such a high wall . 

So I pulled off all the sheets of newspaper and just checked everything over .

The Horseradish is perking up now .

Still using the candle lantern over these cold nights  .

I thought I'd taken more pics of inside the greenhouse ,but apparently not .

So I'll just show you this instead . This is a tray of compost into which I sowed Acer "Bloodgood " seeds . 

The first year they did not germinate , I was told they often pop up the send year . The second year they did not germinate .

But there are lots of Verbena bonariensis seedlings coming up .

This year I can now see what looks like tiny onion bulbils . These are either Egyptian Walking Onions from my vegetable garden or possibly Allium roseum also known as Rosy garlic . It grows down by our local beach . Also in the gravel under my washing line . It is beautiful ! 

 Oh !Well ! No lovely little red Acer Bloodgood babies this time . 

Sun rising behind the clouds this morning .

                       Gool Peran Lowen ! 💐 Happy St Piran's Feast Day ! 

                                       Cornish Pasties , Splits and Cream ! 

 I'm going to sort out the lining fabric for that Veg Trug , do lunch and then put my feet up and do some serious stitching for the rest of the day . 

                             Wishing you a beautiful day 🌿💚💐 x

💐Spring Delightfulness ! 💐

 

I think these were three bags of bulbs for a fiver from the Range back in last Autumn . 

I had cleared away the summer display , simply chucked the bulbs in and dumped a load of compost over the top of them .

I think there was some bad weather coming in and I was dashing about getting the garden ready for Winter , moving plants away into their shelter zones and a million other things were going on at the time too .

Notice I planted them quite low down in the tub .The idea being that this would shelter them from the severe gales we keep getting and ( the real reason being 🤣  ) all I will have to do is plant the next lot of plants over the top . 

When these have finished and to keep my husband happy , I will plonk another load of compost over the top of them and replace with some lovely 1970's style red and white pelargoniums , red salvias , blue lobelia , the obligatory mini yellow fir tree for contrast and maybe a big bold fuchsia  ......oh and something to trail over the sides .....(but not flaming Ivy !)

I'm bowled over with this cheerful display . A welcome splash of colour .

 I like to think Geoff  Hamilton , Peter Seabrook  , Roy Lancaster , Percy Thrower and Alan Titchmarsh would approve ...if maybe not of my bulb planting technique !

                                               🌿💐🌿☀️🌿💐🌿

😱 Aghast - in the most delightful way ! 🌿

 

                            🌿    Amorphophallus konjac gorgeousness  ! 🌿

                                       🌿 Voodoo Lilies  💚🌿