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Un-Blue
Today there was plenty of blue sky to raise our spirits, a good working day with just a tease of a shower this morning. The return to summer was short-lived as the skies have already filled with grey cloud and gloom. It will be much harder to un-blue this salvia.
Birthday Blog
Today is my birthday. I love birthdays. I may have mentioned it before. Any excuse to be special for a day. But I am not telling you this in the faint hope you might send me a tiara or a Nebuchadnezzar of Dom Perignon. A nod and a smile would be quite enough. A kissContinue reading “Birthday Blog”
Port
Outside it is blowing and blustering and sheeting rain. Hope this little chap from earlier today has found a port in this storm.
Common
In the last few weeks I have had cause to warm to the common montbretia. Today at Westwell Hall, in glorious combination with the dark leaved elder, it looked spectacular. There is a lot to be said for being a little bit common.
Swampland
Due to a surfeit of workman and their corresponding transport, His Lordship picked me up today from the National Trust car park a mile or so from the Mantle’s Mansion This rough old patch has breath-taking views along the rugged Exmoor coast and across to Wales. A camper van was the only otherContinue reading “Swampland”
Six on Saturday – The Moment
August: ready or not here we come! Soon there will talk of cool nights and shortening days, but let us not wish our lives away. There is plenty of time left to fret about watering and dead heading and whether we have fed our tomatoes enough or are the slugs and snails attacking whilst IContinue reading “Six on Saturday – The Moment”
Missed Again
Whilst weeding at Max’s I glanced across the border and the Ligularia dentata ‘Desdemona’ caught my eye, radiant, backlit by the sun. I rushed to capture this ethereal moment. I missed. This more earth bound shot will have to do.
So Proud
My baby has caught his first dinner!
Six on Saturday – Right Place/Wrong Place
After my week’s respite from Sixing I am feeling energised and inspired. Not really. I thought that if I typed that it would become the truth, but no, it didn’t work. The week has been draining, but on the whole great fun. No doubt some of you will also have had to endure/enjoy above averageContinue reading “Six on Saturday – Right Place/Wrong Place”
Off The Edge Gardening 