Sunday, 15 April 2018

Eat,shoots and leaves.

Yesterday was a perfect day, we spent our time in the garden, firstly we moved this table and chairs down to our decking area, it captures the first of the sunshine. 
 The empty space outside my greenhouse, I filled quickly, I have moved the blackcurrant bush here and have a huge pot for our outside tomato plant, plus a few smaller pots. 
 Our wooden table and chairs are often in the shade through out the day
 Even the cats came out to play
 These are grown from seeds and cutting, on the left is a kiwi, on the right a passion fruit. In the middle I'm not sure, I think it could be a pomegranate, I will have to wait until the leaves to form. 
 Right photo, is my new Clematis, Lovely yellow flowers, middle sweet peas, right is the grass plant, I decided to put it in front off the hedgehog pot,  once it grows it will give cover to the space, this pot was used last year by our local hedgehog. 
Hubby cleaned his motorbike (loads of chrome to polish) and then our car, I just pottered, it was so lovely and warm, I am loving the extra space outside my greenhouse, I will miss having the table to use, but I have a tall stool in the shed I can use. My shed is tidy, and looking good. I have planted out a few stronger plants, the bedding plants won't be ready until next month.
My walnut twig has new shoots and is out side the greenhouse, but both my citrus plants look sad, I am going to keep both in the greenhouse for a bit longer, my olive bush is also still inside the greenhouse.
The area along the front of the greenhouse now has more space, we pushed the huge pot with the rhubarb in the corner by the raised cut flower bed, we had the blackcurrant bush here, but I was worried about harvesting the fruit in such a small space, it won't be a problem with the rhubarb.
We had a late lunch early dinner at 4pm we had our first BBQ of the year, we sat outside until almost 6pm, it's a perfect prelude to summer, and like so many other I can't wait for it to come.
Last night I watched Monty for an whole hour, I love this format, we also watched a Viking York, shown on BBC2, last week it was Roman Chester, these are very interesting to watch, we have visited both cities and could relate to where they were filming.
This morning, we are dull, loads of mist, which should burn off in time the the fore caste rain!

9 comments:

  1. We had a day similar to your too. Lovely to be outside.

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  2. It was a beautiful day yesterday and so nice to be able to get outside. Rain forecast here today but the nicer weather should be back again from tomorrow onwards.

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  3. You certainly made the most of the sunshine. I took Max for a nice long walk yesterday we were out for almost three hours in the glorious sunshine.

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  4. Ooh I missed the Viking York and roman Chester progs will iplayer them. Lovely to see and hear all about the goings on in your garden, especially the 🦔 x

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  5. I also had a similar day. Feels so good to get summer ready.

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  6. You certainly had a productive day in the sunshine,

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  7. What a lovely garden you have. Enjoy.

    God bless.

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  8. Yes, we too were able to enjoy some sunshine on Saturday, we did think that a BBQ would be nice ... pleased to read you had one.
    Your garden is looking good.

    Have a lovely new week.

    All the best Jan

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  9. A neighbour of ours gave us walnuts off her tree this year and now I have my sights set on getting one. Your garden looks lovely in the sun x

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