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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