Full day in the sun!

Another great sunny day!

Every morning I check seedlings and water houseplants. I am pleased to see the caladiums are finally growing well!!

A wander round the Tiny Tropical Yarden and look at the flower on this Zantedeschia Hercules along with my Ensete maurelii also known as the Abysinian Banana. Both are very tropical looking, though the ensete needs winter protection.

Here is another lily, same family as Hercules, Zantedeschia aeothiopica. Another hardy tropical looking plant.

I popped to my parents to drop off a few bits. I was pleased to see the Geranium palmatum in flower.

As soon as I returned home David and I had breakfast al fresco.

Then I got to work pottering about in our yarden. The first job was to decant the nettle tea into bottles, it was starting to smell badly as I had no cover for my bucket.

The blue skies and my bamboo!!

I repotted my Tetrapanex and Aspidistra saxoca, even have it some height by mounting on top of some breeze blocks. Fingers crossed it survives the ordeal.

I have recently started watching Beechgrove Garden and they had this great idea for house leeks and similar plants.

David helped me in the garden and we put this little bird house up. We do get lots of birds visiting the yarden and we thought we’d give them to option to stay over.

We also mounted some wine boxes on the walls.

It was great to see that this lovely bee was able to rest on the leaves in my little pond and take a well needed break and drink!

I am pleased to say that today was the first day we picked salad fresh from our yarden. This was a tasty herb salad of mixed salad leaves, dill, mint, oca and oregano.

More tomorrow I am sure …

What in the ‘hail’ is this?!

So a mixed day regarding the weather. Still fairly cool hitting about 6/7 in the night.

Felt chilly when I went in the the yarden, I even had a choob around my neck.

I’m not sure if you watch Gardener’s World, Monty Don was talking about taking Dahlia cuttings. I have done this with Dahlia Honka Black, I don’t grow many ‘normal’ plants buy as this dahlia has black flowers and is single, it fits my unusual theme and hopefully the bees with enjoy it too!

I have painted these wooden wine boxes with a preservative for a future yarden project. The stuff smells bad but keeps enhances the natural colour of the wood.

I can’t believe that the Geranium palmatum are already in bud!!! Soon these will be adorned with huge cerise / pink flowers.

I’m sure you know I am painting the fences, having to move many of my pots, I am going lots of insects. It’s grway to see what once was a concrete jungle is now a haven for wildlife.

My little pond is aiming back to life. These miniature water lily like plants pop back up from the depths every spring. It’s great to see all the wildlife this little amount of water attracts. From birds and bees drinking from it to the snails and bugs that live in there, not forgetting the plants!

I always prepare to garden with a cup of tea, love this mug with a lid!!

This Japanese reed grass gives continuity in the yarden and gives a flow almost like water.

I am pleased to have sown many edibles this year, here is a mix of salads that are ready for the picking.

I try and encourage wildlife in to the yarden, especially the birds. Their song and visits give me so much joy.

I bought this ‘window’ feeder about two years ago and the birds didn’t really bother with it. I decided to make it into a bird bath come drinking station. I know I need to hide the ‘soft cheese’ but I’m hoping it will get more use.

Other than that it’s been a wet day and even had hail!!! Let’s see if I can paint another fence panel tomorrow.

Thanks for reading. Please do let me know what you are doing in your green space.