The aftermath of an orgy in the pond Lake. Disgraceful!
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** To this post from a year ago.
Hello! Here I am! I don't have much to say, so I will just bombard you with gardening-related photos (mostly) which may also serve as a prompt to start photographing your own gardens and/or green patches for the 16th annual Lady Garden Presentation
I N F O M A N I A C
Garden Photos Event
later in the year.
But first some music to accompany your scrolling, from the Project Hail Mary soundtrack, Daniel Pemberton's "Amaze Amaze Amaze (Life on Erid)":
(I loved my birthday viewing of this film - and the soundtrack - so much that I went to see it again on Tuesday afternoon! The similar, but not quite as euphoric "Amaze Amaze Amaze (Fist My Bump)" almost made the cut here.)
MARCH
The 15th to be precise...
The South Garden and Circular Paysho
This neglected and pot-bound dog's tooth violet/fawn lily (Erythronium californicum "White Beauty") clearly doesn't need any of my help to thrive.
The chocolate vine (Akebia quinata) started to flower.
The Gardener's Retreat
28th March
Raspberry (named by my sister & nephew).
Despite his best efforts, Bitey has yet to "meet" Raspberry.
April
4th
Not my garden, but who wouldn't want to be treated to a view of Bitey's fluffy backside through a tunnel of blackthorn blossom?
Snake's head fritillaries by the Lake (Camera apologises for the out-of-focus subject. Again)
And another in the Gardener's Retreat (with my chocolate foxglove, Digitalis parviflora - which I hope is going to flower this year - in the pot behind it).
The Erythronium again.
6th April
The Lake
A "hatching" frog-bit (Hydrocharis morsus-ranae)
One of the orgy-goers, no doubt.
An enormous dandelion flower. I left it in the garden because it's so bright and cheerful.
Plus the bees love it!
11th & 12th April
The big agapanthus in the multi-sided pot isn't staying there. The Grand Paysho needs to be reorganised before it can be repositioned somewhere more suitable.
The widened border around the Circular Paysho looks like it may need further widening...
Despite facing south, the magnolia is flowering much later than all the rest of them around here because The Gardener's Retreat is shaded by the old railway embankment and the "bastard weed trees" (as Jon so rightly calls sycamores).
I've yet to bring the old railway sleeper shelf and table & chairs out of the garage to furnish the Gardener's Retreat.
Chocolate vine flowers - and half a mealworm (from the bird feeder, I should imagine).
Primrose
The carefully placed stones won't stay that way for long. The nephew and nieces are coming round later...
Pineapple lily shoots (Eucomis comosa "Sparkling Burgundy"). I divided and repotted my collection earlier this week.
The now towering Echiums!
The South Gardens of Hexenhäusli Device from atop Broom. The wire cloches are to prevent Bitey from tearing up the lawn when he rushes out to find Raspberry (they'll be put away once the dry season starts - which will probably be next month).
The results of yesterday's baking: cherry Danishes (v.easy - a sheet of puff pastry cut into six squares, the edges of which are cut & folded over to the opposite inner edge, brushed with milk, filled with cherry compote, dusted with cinnamon sugar then baked), and dried cherry & chocolate tray bake.
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