GPE #7 : Mitzi can't live anywhere with 'bog' in it's name

Dear Mr Device.  

Please forgive my tardiness in sending you my garden photographs, I've been driving down to the south coast every touch and turn looking at properties, hence my blogging absence.  The last house I viewed was in Bognor Regis...  BOGNOR!  It was a nice house but I can't live anywhere with 'bog' in it's name.  I'm away for 3 weeks so I might not be able to thank people for their gracious comments.

Hope all is well,

 

M I T Z I

 

Birds eye view from the car camera.  Look how clean my drive is compared with theirs next door.

[Can Mitzi's car fly?? - IDV]

 

 

The other side of the fence lives a Chinese lady.  She likes to peer through the knots in the wood at us, reminiscent of that horror film The Ring.

 

Carmen mowed over an unsuspecting stone in the grass, it shot out and hit the front door, it made a nice crackle glaze effect on the glass.  I made Carmen go on the game to pay for the £350 worth of damage.  This happened in May, she's still paying it off.

 

 

Photo taken 26th Oct 2024.  Doing well.  Box of lemon trees grown from seeds from a single Waitrose lemon.

 [If these were from a Morrisons lemon I would have vetoed the photo.

Not that Mitzi would step foot in a Morrisons, of course - IDV]

 

 

I don't usually venture out into the front garden, I live on a cul-de-sac (the top end of the bag, of course) and there is a high chance that a neighbour will come out and chat.  Unlike the maid, I'm not an over the fence garden gossip.

 

 

Wilting in the sun, Bottle brush grown from a cutting courtesy of Sandhill Garden centre.

 

 

This highly scented Panache fig or Tiger Stripe fig has only produced 1 fig so far.

 [Lovely Crocsmia "Lucifer" at the back there - IDV]

 

 

Photo taken on 9th April 2024.  Tree peony from a root cutting (very daring!) courtesy of Strike Garden Centre of Beverley, there was no way I was going to fork out £40 for a potted one.  It bloomed for the first time last year with a very poor display, much better this year.  On the left you can see a rogue tulip.

 

 

The Colocasia Elephant Ear plant didn't get the best start in life because I had planted the swede like bulb upside down.  Now overwintering with the Brugmansia and lemon trees in the shed.

 

 

The creeping phlox in the gravel bed.  I didn't realise anything was wrong at the time I took the photo, on closer inspection I noticed the birds had ransacked most of my succulents situated in the blue pot, that same blue pot that used to be a hand basin in the downstairs toilet!  I say birds, it could easily have been the actions of a jealous neighbour.

 

 

When I was trimming my overgrown bush in the back garden, I found this cyclamen, that had been hidden away.  It was a house warming present someone had given me (cheapskates).  Makes a much better outside plant than a leggy indoor one.

 

 

I'm on a two week cruise, had a few days scouring Southampton and Portsmouth beforehand, sadly both are not places I would like to live or in the case of Portsmouth visit again.  In Cartagena at the moment.  Neutrogena as my maid of all work keeps calling it.  It's best to humour the daft cow. 

 

Mitzi.

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 Thank you, Mitzi, and we hope you had a fabulous cruise!  Your blooms-on-a-budget are quite stunning, and an inspiration to those who think they can't afford a garden.

 Please pop back on Monday for a look at what Mistress Maddie has to offer!