Meanwhile in the Greenhouse 🌿🌵

 

I noticed this little Rhipsalidopsis rosea is flowering .

It's a delightful little thing and I look forward to seeing it in flower every spring .

                     I will repot it when the flowers fade . 

          I'm resting up for a couple of days . Aching from weeding and carrying the watering can around . I need to pull out the garden hose .

  I still have some weeding to do , but the ground is now too hard and dry . 

I am waiting for all my seeds to germinate in the shed . Everything is coming along nicely now I think .

 I'm going to put my feet up , do my embroidery and enjoy the lovely weather .

                                 Love and Peace  🕊️

                                             Debbie 💐x

Restoring my Herb Garden - part one

 The first thing I had to do today was to lop off that palm branch that has been bashing the top of my greenhouse in this weeks gales .

                             Done !

 Then my thoughts turn to what was my lovely herb garden ...now choked with grass and weeds . 

 The herbs are still in there ....somewhere  !

I am leaving the Bluebells and the Cowslips , rescuing others if I can .

  Lemon Balm , Sweet Woodruff , Thyme , Marjoram , Rosemary , beautiful Lemon Verbena and Rosa gallica mundi versicolour (probably spelt wrong !) 🌿

 

    A few Cowslips that I will replant somewhere else ...and Sweet Woodruff. 

I love Sweet Woodruff the best , it smells so sweet as it dries....mmm heavenly !

    

 ✨   Dried Sweet Woodruff under your pillow for sweet dreams .✨

 There is one nice clump of Foxgloves , I will leave that for the bees . 🐝🐝🐝

Made a good start . I filled the wheelbarrow then just threw the weeds onto the path to collect up later .   😜

The Rose is in the foreground . 

Between the rose and the Phoenix canariensis palm , is one very out of control Artemisia vulgaris /variegated Mugwort .  This is one herb I can do without .

  

Just putting a sprig of this under your pillow will induce horrendous nightmares ! 

 Growing ten feet tall and it's roots spreading to take over the planet ...Out ! Out ! Out !   

 

 Oh ! Maybe I'll put it into a tub of it's own . You never know when I might need it for some magic spell  ✨✨✨

    

 I couldn't move the wheelbarrow it was SO heavy . So I filled up three sacks to take to the tip and will do some more weeding when I have rested and recovered .

   The ground is starting to dry out and becoming hard to dig , so I may wait until we get some rain to make it easier to dig and finish the job .

  

 I will do a quick sweep up tomorrow morning . ....honest I will !  😜               

                                         Bye fer now !    

                               Love and Peace 💛Debbie x

Pumpkin Patch 🌿

 It's a beautiful morning here and at last that cruel east wind has stopped blowing .

Yesterday evening I made a start weeding what will be my pumpkin patch in the African Keyhole Bed . What a mess !  I did cover it over the winter but took it all off too soon . I already weeded it and now they've all grown back .

I made a good start as the sun was going down but husband ordered me to stop (poor hungry man who wanted feeding ! 🦍 ) so I didn't finish it .

Just look at that Giant Echium !

 It's started to open it's flowers and it is a white one . The bees are loving it .

                                  🐝    It's still going up !   🐝🐝

I was very pleased to find a little clump of my perennial Egyptian walking onions . I thought I had lost those . I did collect a few of the bulbils last autumn and they are coming along nicely in the shed . 

It's good to have these perennial vegetables . I have lost the perennial Daubenton's Kale sadly ...but I noticed a Brussel sprout stump re growing ...it may not produce sprout buttons but the leaves are very tasty .

                  What a mess !      Aagh !                   Robin came along to help .

      Bindweed , thistles , nettles , brambles and couch grass  . Everything !

Meanwhile in the greenhouse ....

                    That cactus bud is getting fatter !

Out in the vegetable garden , the chives that I transplanted into the Lavender bed are doing really well .

 They had been grazed almost to the ground by the  naughty bunnykins , but now they are in this bed enclosed with chicken wire and are coming back nicely .   

                    🐇🐰       Well , that's all fer now !    🐰🐇

                             Peace and love  🕊️  Debbie  💐 x

                                                🌿☀️🌿