🐿️Another Day in the Greenhouse 🍁🍂

 After doing a huge heap of ironing , I set off to check on the second wave of Sweet Peppers up in the greenhouse .

There are five very nice green Sweet Peppers ( Snack Bite Red ) and with the promise of more sunshine coming this week , they should be ready very soon .

The cacti and succulenti collection all looking happy . I will stop watering them now as we're going into the cold Winter months .

I will be sorting out all my greenhouse Winter insulation stuff this weekend .

Blue sky here today , it's lovely ☀️ and I think it is set to be lovely for most of next week .

 

    A quick check in the shed . Onions and Lettuces all looking good .

Remember the plants I rescued from the rubbish tip ? 😀 They look like Primroses to me , but  look ! I spied a Calendula / Marigold coming up  in amongst them ! Perfect for my kitchen windowsil hanging basket !  Hooray !

I'm not doing any gardening today , I put on a pretty dress to prevent me from getting stuck into doing anything earthy .

 I can hear Ricardo busy strimming away outside .

I am going to put my feet up and finish off my Angel embroidery and the small patchwork project I have been doing for my Hallowe'en loving brother .

I have been working as fast as I can on this to get it done in time . My fingers are all pricked and sore from stitching .

                   It's just a little mug mat   ☕🫖☺️ 

                     Autumnal more than Hallowe'eny . 

                    Here's a little peek of the other side .  🐿️ 🍁🍂

    I'll show the whole of it after he's recieved it in the post next week .

                        Love and Peace 🤍🕊️🌿

                                     Love Debbie  💐 x

Dinner Plate Dahlias

 Yesterday was very foggy and mizzly , but today the sun is shining and my Cosmos and Dahlias are really putting in a show !

            My Monkey Puzzle Tree is now almost as tall as me ! 

My daughter gave me these very special Dinner Plate Dahlias a couple of years ago  .

They did not enjoy the long hot summer this year , but are certainly making up for it now !

           These will keep flowering until the first frost .

                                                  🍂🍁 ☀️ 🍂🍁               

p.s.

   

Still stitching away on this little patchwork block .

                                                       🍂☀️🍁

Winter Kitchen Windowsill Hanging Basket - continued 🪻🪻🪻

I found some blue Muscari bulbs for a good price at B&Q - £2.50 for 20 bulbs !

Of course I counted them ! 1- 2 - 3 --- 20 and one extra tiddler !  Very happy me !

 

Poked 10 holes along the front of the hanging basket ...about 1 1/2 inches deep .

Nestled them in gently , pointy end uppermost , roots downwards .

                 I decided to put two in each hole . 

There is still some space in the middle and towards the back for something else . I'm still thinking about that , some orange tulips would be nice, but all the other packets of bulbs were around £7.99 !! 😱

 So the Wallflowers are Scarlet , the Muscari are blue , the Pansies are a mix of colours , the Silver leaved plant Senecio cineraria /Dusty Miller gives a bit of a white background to make the other colours stand out .

  I am thinking about sowing some Calendula/ Marigold seeds ...that would be a cheaper way of throwing in a little bit of orange .Or ..... 🤔.....I might even have some Marigold seedlings popping up already elsewhere in the garden . 

I had a look around and came across some variegated Ivy . This would look nice trailing over the front of the hanging basket ! 

 I pulled a couple of pieces and they had  some roots coming along the stems already !

                                               Perfect !

 I lay them into the compost and if I pinch off the tips , they should then bush out and look nice by the coming Spring .

I will still keep looking for some more reasonably priced dwarf tulip bulbs .

   I have miniature Daffodils elsewhere in the garden and wouldn't want them in this hanging basket as they tend to produce so many long leaves after they finish flowering .

 I must go through my seeds and see if there might be anything else I can sow now for a Spring display .

Looks a bit sparse right now , but it is giving me something to look forward to in the Spring .

              Peace and Love  🕊️🤍

                                           Love Debbie 💐x