Flower Arrangement for the Week

My last flower arrangement lasted a good two weeks , but today it was looking a bit sad , so I went out into the garden to gather some more .

Sticking to the patriotic theme of red , white and blue  again ....we have had some hot but very windy days. The garden has taken quite a battering . My lovely gladioli were smashed down . I have picked a couple of them so they won't be wasted .  Everything is looking so dry in the main ornamental part of the garden . I can't remember when we last had proper rain ! I have only been watering the vegetable garden .

  Just one Agapanthus flower helped to fill it out ! I hope the Gladioli will recover .

Crocosmia "Lucifer" , Blue hydrangea , Ox-eye Daisies, Pittosporum and Cotinus coggygria "Royal Purple ".

                      Very pleased with this and hope it lasts !

                                 🤍  Hope you're keeping cool 🤍

                                              🌿☀️🌿

Quick update ----

                             Courgettes !!!  🤗💚🌿               

🌿🍅Harvesting a few Tomatoes makes me Happy 🌿🦋

 

In my happy place earlier this morning .

My Snack-bite Red Sweet Peppers are looking amazing ! 

Pelargonium Amethyst is still putting on a lovely show .

 Bowiea volubilis  scrabbling up to the rafters is also flowering now .

                                Flowers like little stars !  

Passiflora manicata is growing well . I think I'm going to repot it into a much bigger pot and put it into one corner of the greenhouse where it can grow like crazy and hopefully flower .  Red ! It's going to have a red flower !   🤗  Ooh there's a little cucumber !

In amongst the Monstera delicosa vine I find another one ready to pick .

I grow just enough for two and I take some over to my daughter if she needs them . The rest I slice in half , open freeze and bag up for the freezer . We are still using up last year's harvest .

Watering everything is becoming absolute drudgery now 😒 ..... we really need some proper rain .

 We had some mizzle the night before last , but really , the dew on the grass was more plentiful than the overnight rain .

The sun is shining but it's blowing a gale here ! and it has been like this for the last two or three days . 

I'm having a quiet day today ....

        ........ in the summerhouse , sharing a few biscuit crumbs with my friend .

              

         🕊️🤍🎶    Yep ...I'm in a medieval mood again ..... 🦌🏹🌳🦋

                  I'd be far happier back in those times   .

I probably wouldn't be growing tomatoes , peppers or cucumbers though ....or potatoes ................what no chips ? !!!  😱                

                 Peace and Love 🤍🕊️🌿

                                       Debbie 💐x

         

🌿🍅Time to Tidy Tomatoes ! 🌿🌿🌿🍅

           At last the tomatoes are beginning to ripen !

    Now's the time to selectively take off unwanted side shoots .....not necessarily all of them .  

Starting to see the odd yellowing leaf .....so I take them off  ..... give them a goodly drink of water and a wee drop of tomato feed . 

Meanwhile in the shed ....

         All of my Epie cuttings are starting to show signs of recovering .

                    Lots of new rosie tipped shoots  .

                            They look much happier now .

                  Agave mediopicta alba and Senecio scaposus

Amorphophallus atroviridis  update  --

                    That new shoot is coming ....very ..... very slowly  .

                So I am pretty sure I planted him the right way up now ! 🤗

Other news ......

              I don't want to talk about it  ........ sigh .......

                                   Peace and Love  🕊️ ....grrrrr .....

                                            Debbie 💐x