It has been a long, hard winter without contact with family and friends. I've always got plenty to fill my days and have a husband who still, after well over half a century, continues to make me laugh, but even so so it has felt rather bleak at times. But this coming weekend is the start of British Summer Time, how cheering! The garden has suddenly burst into action, it is the time of year when everything promises.
I've been clearing the vegetable patch ready for planting, moving the forget-me-not flowers that always seed themselves freely all over the place. They are easy to lift and plant as edging to give a mist of blue in the coming months.
Stakes in place for the climbing French beans.
The artichoke plants have taken a hit from all the cold and rain and it is too soon to know if they will survive. While it is easy enough to clear the ground in the open beds it is another matter to remove the weeds that grow around the fruit bushes. Primroses have seeded themselves very freely here as well and look so pretty that I'm loathe to disturb them.
They get everywhere, tucked in here in a row of chives!
It is a pleasure to wander into the garden and pick some of my favourite flowers.
Even a little bit of sunshine at the end of the day!
Forget me Nots seed themselves so much that you can't forget them.
ReplyDeleteAh - just so!
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DeleteAnd those primroses have really gone mad and look so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThey are everywhere, a very cheerful sight.
DeleteLove the self sown primroses. With us it is self sown foxgloves.
ReplyDeleteI grow white foxgloves and am happy that they self-seed. The bees cross-fertilise them with the wild ones but I ruthlessly pull up any that are red or pink and put them on the compost heap!
DeleteOnce a long time ago I came and had a cup of tea with a couple who lived away somewhere but came up to their cottage in Carlton in holiday time. I am wondering if it was you.
ReplyDeleteYes, we visited you and the farmer and saw your first husband's lovely paintings. Then you came to Coverdale to see us.
DeleteThere is so much to do in the spring and although I am finding it harder to take on all the gardening chores I once did, I am determined to have some gardens. I just need Mother Nature to cooperate, the deer to stay away and my knees to hold me up. Your gardens are an inspiration.
ReplyDeleteOh, knees - tell me about it! (I think that you and I are twinned!)
DeleteSo beautiful this time of year, I am hoping to get out in the garden tomorrow. Your garden is lovely.
ReplyDeleteMy garden is a great solace, Doc, as I know you will understand. It is the time of year when it is promising everything.
DeletePrimroses and forgetmenots are so pretty! Even on a dull day, they brighten up a garden so much.
ReplyDeleteWell, the days ARE dull at the moment but you are right, the primroses look sunny regardless of the weather.
DeleteGreat work. A friend told me recently that if at the end of the day your hair is a mess, your feet are dirty and your eyes are twinkling you’ve had a good day. That applies to gardening with the added benefit of broken nails and dirty hands.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention an aching back!
DeleteYour garden is so beautiful!!! I love those flowers! We are a little far from gardening season here but I'm so looking forward to it!
ReplyDeleteStill cold here so I'm not yet planting, but I'm ready!
DeleteGood times ahead, Rain!
Spring has been very good for morale. And, I often think this here, having a garden out there has been a real help over the last year.
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ReplyDelete"The garden has suddenly burst into action."
ReplyDeleteOh, if only it would. Automatically plough and prune itself into that semblance of Eden which I so desire but would not lift a finger to achieve. Barry and his grandson, neighbours from 400 yards away, have descended and removed tons of rubbish, causing primroses to go forth and multiply. The invoice was so Dickensian in scope we felt forced to add extra payment to make it seem we are living in the twenty-first century. But now a lump has developed on Barry's recently surgicalised knee - "as big as a golf ball" - and the vistas of an eternally-renewing paradise are at risk.
Heroic as always Barry says he can't sit on his bum just watching Nature; he needs to be out there, improving on it. As a diversion I offered him a rickety garden seat on which I - and I alone - placed pot plants as decoration, my sole attempt at what others are wont to call landscaping. Replacing the frail wooden slats isn't exactly gardening but it's a task Barry suggested in his initial survey of my "land", which he can confine to his garage and work at during the periods of his life he laughingly refers to as "leisure". For in Barry's house there are many mansions (viz. The Holy Bible). As a sideline he repairs powered lawnmowers and, before that, fettled the engines of racing motorbikes. He's broad-brush is Barry. Verily.
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