Still no rain ! ☀️

 

            Good morning ! Looking out through my kitchen window .

It has let a lot more light in , since I took off all the lower leaves and Ivy from the Tree Fern .

 It is still very hot here . I expect we'll have some really heavy rain storms soon .

Aah ....there's my little friend Robin waiting for me to come out .

I topped up the bird feeding station and refreshed the water in the bird bath .

There is a big bowl of water in the meadow for other thirsty wildlife .

I think these are "Blue Lake " Climbing beans and there are another lot of dwarf beans down below . Plenty more to come . 

 Peas are coming to the end now . I must remember to sow some more . 🫛🫛🫛

  I picked another big bunch of Lavender , lots more French beans and a couple of nice Courgettes .

Sweetcorn and Runner beans are only just getting going ... no idea why so slow ?

  Plenty of time though for these !

Oh ! Well ! We have plenty of these French beans . Some we are having fresh and some I have quickly blanched then into the freezer .

French beans , which I "open freeze" then bag up into free flow packs .

Meanwhile come with me into the shed ......

Amorphophallus atroviridis - update 

Back in February I acquired this small and strange Amorphopallus atroviridis tuber/corm/bulb/blob  .🤣

I potted it up and have been waiting and watching it for a very long time .

I did actually dig it up at one point to check that I had planted it up the right way .

Well at last it has begun putting up not one but two shoots and I am looking forward to seeing it's lovely leaves .

It really is painfully slow growing , but something is happening now .

          I can see the first bunch of lovely new leaves starting to open !

This is a slightly more rare variety of Voodoo Lily . I think it is a lot more tender , but has the most beautiful leaves  . 

I think it's looking gorgeous already ! 

The other tiny little shoot next to the main one is just stationary ..... 🤔

                                          🌿💚 🌿

Epiphyllum "Helston Library " ( maybe apricot flowers ) cuttings - update -

They are all getting away nicely now . First the new shoots look like they have been squeezed out of a cake decorating nozzle ....

                                    Then they develop "wings"

          Then they grow into proper flat phylloclades or modified leaves .

And then hopefully the flower buds come from the nodes of these adult phylloclades . 

                                 Flower bud coming .

                              One of my other Epies in full bloom 🤍

It is fiercely hot today ☀️ I won't be doing anything out in the garden until this evening when it should cool down a bit .

🪻Might do some patchwork this afternoon or make some Lavender bags 🪻💜

                         Take care in the fierce sun !

                                     Peace and Love 🤍🕊️

                                               Debbie 💐 x