🌿Wednesday Weeding🌿

                                    That's my work out for the day !

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I'm still here ! 😊🐝🌿

I think May must be one of the busiest times of the year in the garden , shed and greenhouse . 

Several of my Epies have buds coming now , the one in the picture above certainly kept us waiting !

               Just look at the size of this bud !

  I thought I'd spare you the agonising wait for this one .....

                Fifteen inches across !

It is a rare , fantastic , huge and lovely one . ....Just sadly not what it was sold to me as . 

It was supposed to be Acapulco Sunset ....which would have been yellow flushed red .

So maybe someone out there can tell me the name of this one .

I decided to cross pollenate by hand these two Epiphyllums 🐝 seeing as they were both in flower at the same time and there was plenty of pollen .

I left the two upper flowers and pollenated the two lower flowers 🐝, so that I will be able to see if they develop fruits that will contain seeds ...... this could take several months ....six months even or more ! Then extract the seeds and germinate them over the winter months on the heated propagator indoors . 

The postman brought me a huge parcel  ....I only got stabbed once as I opened it and very quickly realised what was inside !

                         Gorgeous !  Tricocereus  peruviana    🌵     ( I think )

I decided that this would be best planted in mostly garden earth ,( looking like it had already been growing in such soil from looking at the earth that was around the roots in the parcel ), mixed with lots of grit , bit of perlite and a just couple of handfuls of compost .

        I got the scissors in there to hold the cactus in place . Very tricky !

         I could have done with another pair of hands at this point .

      I think this was the most dangerous part of the transplant operation !

What do you think ? ......... Needs something more perhaps ?

            A very nice crystal ?                          A nice Snake ?

                                           Nice rock with a hole ?

                 Dinosaur and nice crystal  .....yep that's the one !

Next job ....sort out the African Keyhole bed ...Pumpkin Patch .

           

   We're talking Bindweed , nettles , brambles climbing through the chicken wire fence ...sigh .....

                                      Ugh ! 

 I put some cheerful music on . 🎶🎵⛅

My best friend the Robin flew down to help me and we soon had it more or less sorted .

 I just need to shift the paving slabs into position ...so that I can step into the centre to water the plants .

  I'll do that tomorrow as I have to be very, very ,very careful of my back . Should be easy enough to just flip them over and into place .

Then , all the weeds and nasty bindweed roots were put into sacks and taken to the tip ......

Where I found a huge very shriveled primrose on the floor ..how could someone throw that away !

          I think it's a Primrose , not sure , what do you think ? 

It was very dry and I wasn't sure if I could revive it , but this morning I can see the leaves are firming up again .

 There were so many Bindweed roots that we had to go to the tip a second time .

 This time I found a very withered Strawberry plant , which I scooped up and is now looking very happy in it's nice new hanging pot and fresh earth .

Then Saturday morning , we had to miss church to go to the cactus fair in Carharrack .  It just had to be done ! 

It was just fabulous ! The cacti and succulents that had been entered were absolute stunners ! 

                             I certainly got my cactus fix  !  🌵

 

                                Look at that !!! Wow !

                                         Lovely Ledebourias !

It was all very inspiring and I was excited to get home and start repotting some of my plants . 

 I am still finding it hard to find nice horticultural grit for top dressing my cacti .

I wonder where they buy theirs from ? 

As soon as we got home I set to tidying up this very old and tatty Agave .

It was all going so well . I got everything ready , the new lovely pot , compost , grit scissors .

I carried it outside to begin tidying off all the old crispy dead leaves , when it fell out of it's pot onto my hands , stabbing me in multiple places !

 It really hurt and made me cry .              Ricardo did some first aid  on me .

                                    Agave Victoria Regina 

It's a very lovely pot and it will do for a few years . I dread to think of the ordeal it will be , to have to repot her again after she's filled this big pot !

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     We had a lot of rain last night and this morning the cottage felt cold , but when I stepped outside I was pleasantly surprised by how lovely and warm  it was .                                              🌤️☀️🌤️

 🌿I decided to bring out the Courgette , Butternuts and Pumpkins plants and put them on the table ,to begin to acclimatise for a couple of days ,before planting them out . 

   Some of the leaves are yellowing , a sign they have used up the goodness in the compost and need re potting or planting out . 🌿

  Very tempted to do it this afternoon ...but really need to let them acclimatise .

Sunday - we went to church in Helston - lovely to see Father Thomas and a few familiar faces of lovely people who sometimes come over to Mullion . 🕊️

Then over to Falmouth for McDonalds hot chocolate , coffee for Ricardo .Sit and watch the yachts and the occasional motorboat hooligan ...and hoping to see  dolphins .

There are beautiful planted areas along the sea front , this is one of my favourites !

Then home again  ......

                           Look it's got flowers coming !

  I shall leave you with this picture of my very special white Haworthia . 

Given to me by the sweet wife of General Carlo Gagiano , former chief of the South African Air Force , who has an amazing garden full of cacti and succulents ....and no need of a greenhouse !

                            That's all fer today ! 

                                    Love and Peace 🕊️Debbie x

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The Tomatoes are coming ! 🤩

                                     🌿 🍅    Oh ! I am in love !   🍅🌿

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