just trying something

I need to have this picture so I can copy and paste it into my right hand column for a permanant link to Quantum Savvy. I had a wee picture and link before I updated my blog layout.....then all was lost......

whooohoooo!!

here is Abbey waiting for her tea, she has passed her Level 1 with Quantum Savvy, a natural horsemanship programme,

here is our 'front page' with all our assignments 'ticked', whoohoo!! she is a good girl!!

still thriving

I love looking at tree leaves, the way the light shines through them, and the colours of the leaves, It 'does not do it' with a photograph....I think it must be that movement creates a play of light and colour and I cannot capture it with a still photograph.

the bees are out and busy, due to comlete memory blankness the names of plants are totally escaping me today so I may come back later to 'identify'

love the colours, still no memory!

more busy bees

and my much neglected garden is still managing to grow, peas and beans here, there are also courgettes, onions, carrots, beetroot and pumpkin. tomato plants in the greenhouse and think a pepper too. the greenhouse temperatures are between 6 and 35 C. too much variation and too hot!!

this is the poppy produced by the tall, much awaited plant. there are lots of flowers, they don't seem to last long but there are more waiting to open.

and the blue poppy throws out another bloom. I love it.

natures paint palette

I am so impressed with the 'pattern' of this hosta, swirling watercolour effect

and the blue poppy has survived and is flowering just now

more of natures watercolour in the leaf from the wild orchid

firmly labled!!

colour is happening!! weeding is not!!

this poppy has been in 'leaf' for over a year, when I first got it I wasn't even sure what it was! hopefully it will flower soon. and thats where the pasta strainer went to....I maybe went out for salad and got distracted.....

the peony looks a bit reluctant to fully open...as soon as it does the wind will probably blow the petals off....

in the green house this sempervenium is flowering for the first time, funny little plants, they thrive on being neglected it seems!

the double poppy has been flowering for a good couple of weeks, its spreading to make a nice big colouful impact.

quaking grass, luckily neglected enough that I haven't weeded it out...

geranium pheum

also in white, very delicate looking but a tough hardy plant.

columbine

lovely! also known as Grannys Bonnets and Aquliega

my bit...

this is a small part of my friends large and neglected garden, there is beech hedge down one side and some established hostas and grasses. all the little plants are cuttings or splits from my plants so this is 'my bit' and I'll be keeping an eye on it. I've used plants that should look after themselves, its a difficult garden, exposed and windy with a very poor clay soil, and no gardener!! hopefully there will be an photo later in the year showing it all filled in.

and Abbey, my reason for neglecting my own garden.....