Epiphyllum Curt Backeberg Flower

 

                                              I am in love !

🌿Epiphyllum Curt Backeberg - second bud opening 🌿

  I have been watching and waiting all day for this second Epiphyllum "Curt Backeberg" bud to open .

Just starting to stir .....

                     Are you falling in love ?  💜🧡🩷

      I guess we'll just have to wait until tomorrow to see it fully open !

                                    Time for bed children !

                           ✨✨✨ Sweet dreams  ✨✨✨

                                  love Debbie x

Weeding , weeding , weeding 🌿

So now that I'm pretty much up to date in the vegetable garden , I can allow myself some time to get the ornamental garden back up to scratch .

There are lots of cowslips and primroses in this bed and they are now finishing their lovely spring display . The weeds have crept in .

 

   A little rock feature that I made where the thrush comes to smash snails and wash them in the little pool of water that collects in the hollow of the rock on top .

It is a rock that looks as if it may have been used in the past for grinding corn , polishing  or sharpening tools . The Blackbirds and the Thrush make good use of it now .

Here there is annoying couch grass , the odd stinging nettle and rambling bramble which roots everywhere it touches down . I constantly pull up Ivy coming from under and over the fence . I try my best to keep on top of it .

I decided to strip out all the Cowslips and a couple of Dahlias and do a proper job of twiddling out all the couch grass bulbils .

I dismantled the rock feature ......well... I lifted off that top slab and pulled out as much as I could . 

The other rocks were just too heavy for me to move . I wonder how I ever lifted them there in the first place !

  I worked my way around and filled up two wheelbarrows !

Tidied up that Chamaerops humilis by removing one or two leaves and pulling out a very long bramble .  

                                   I filled two wheelbarrows !

Looks so much better now !  

I re-planted the Dahlias and am having a re-think about what to plant in here . 

    Alpines or succulents , some low growing things 😊🌿💛

 I'm pretty much resting up today .

                                        Peace and Love

                                            Debbie x