Working in the Garden

So another glorious sunny day . I'm glad I wrapped my more tender things up yesterday . Very surprised to see that Jack Frost had been over night .

 Up to the greenhouse to pick the last of my Sweet Peppers . 

The Robin flollowed me in and it took me about half an hour to usher him out and get the windbreak net at the door fastened up again !

I decided that they were not likely to ripen up much more now and would take them down to the kitchen  .

I moved this Epiphyllum oxypetallum / Brahma kamal / Queen of the Night from the porch into the space where the Sweet Peppers had been . I think it will have better light here in the greenhouse . 

Some of the leaves were looking scorched around the edges ...I think maybe from condensation over night and then the sun shining through the water drops .

You may remember that I tried cross pollinating a couple of my Epies that had bloomed at the same time .

I decided to pull off the fruits and see if I can get some seeds from them .

                                   Acapulco Sunset 

                                      Epiphyllum "Yellow"

This one was sold to me as named "Yellow" .....the buds were glorious yellow , but the flowers turned out to be ivory on the outer petals and white inner petals  .

     Still very beautiful I think and I have never had four flowers on one stem at the same time before . Just gorgeous !!

So then the long wait for the seed pods to ripen up .

                                   The dried flowers still attached .

                          They are just now perfectly ripe and juicy .

They came away quite easily . 

 I will try and extract the seeds tomorrow .

I'll probably sow and get them to germinate on my windowsill heated propagator .

Then on to pick the last of the French beans , to harvest the beans from those crisp pods , put into casseroles or sow next year .

Then out with the loppers to sort out the palm leaf that keeps bumping Ricardo on the head as he walks up the path  . 🤪

I had thought to wait until next spring to do this , as when you cut one banch off another will flop down behind it .

  So then I changed my mind ...... and lopped it off ....

...and also took off the one that brushes against the greenhouse roof ...

          Intrigued by the new flower bud and the old spent flower ....

                     You can use these pod cases to sow seeds in .

          Anyway   

                          Then I got a bit carried away !

All palm leaves are now safely on the bonfire heap . I say safely because the leaves at the base of these palm leaves are as sharp as fencing swords  and thankfully I was only speared once this time .

  A couple of years ago I had to go to hospital to have one pulled out of my palm . 

                         These palms can bite !

Other news

 In my shallow Alpine bowl I think this might be a Gentian flower bud about to bloom !

  After the drought this summer I had thought I'd lost it , so absolutely delighted to see it .

                Looks like another cold night ahead !

                        Peace 🕊️

                             Please ....  Peace and Love 🕊️🤍

                              

                                           love Debbie 💐x