We are being blessed with rain ! May all your water-butts be full , your gardens be full of flowers buzzing with bees , butterflies , bird-song , young fledglings and baby rabbits hopping about . May your vegetable gardens flourish .
Things are waking up. Bowiea volubilis .
Dioscorea elephantipes .
A lovely new vine shoot emerging from the top and the remains of last years vine .
Is this another shoot emerging from the bottom of the caudex ?
About a month ago I bought a packet of Cordyline indivisa seeds from Darren at Tropical Plants and Seeds on Ebay uk .
I sowed them straight away in this little propagator .
They take their time these Cordyline indivisa seeds ! This morning I can see two tiny green shoots ! I am so happy !
The pups that I found while weeding around my Agave salmiana var.ferox .
I popped them into a polystyrene box with some gritty compost and they are now beginning to green up in the greenhouse . The middle one doesn't have much of a root , but you never know . Agave salmiana var.ferox is such a beautiful Agave and I dont give up on plants that easily !
Tomatoes in the shed I just need to top up their compost . Compost is so expensive now ! I planted about six left over plants outside to take their chances ....a rabbit has eaten one already !
I,m taking a break from weeding the gravel bed today as I am all "achy-bones" !
We enjoy and try to live in harmony with the wildlife here .
In the ornamental garden , it is best just to only grow plants that the rabbits don't like to nibble .
They have never nibbled our Dahlias before , until last week , we found one grazed down to the ground ! So my husband has gone around putting this plastic netting around our more precious plants . I really dont like it .It is not terribly attractive .
I would rather have one large bed ,with a more attractive rabbit-proof fencing around it .
So to that end , I got busy with a roll of chicken-wire and the green wire fencing that I had just removed from around the Agave .
It is quite attractive .
I think it could work if I attach this to the green fencing , it shouldn't look so bad .
Ouch ! Very fiddly to open this wretched stuff !
Then began a long and very tedious job with wire cutters and using the wire that it was packed up in , attaching it at various points to the green fencing .
It then began to rain , my back aching and my hands scratched and bleeding from the sharp chicken wire . You cant do this with gloves on, I tried ! Can't do any more today . So there it remains , another job only half done .
I am taking a break ! I will get back to it when the rain eases up .
I,ve had enough for today . Time for a hot shower , TCP , plasters and a nice cup of tea .
The Strawberries are ripening !
Bee happy ! x
Unfortunately we had only had a little drizzly rain, so we have been busy watering!
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