Despite the lack of sunshine the garden is producing the odd bloom here and there, enough to supply the windowsill with a wee jug of colour. Not quite the cutting garden I'm aiming for yet but hey, these things won't happen overnight.
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J
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Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Sunday, 1 July 2012
Peter piper picked a pair of pretty posies
Despite the lack of sunshine the garden is producing the odd bloom here and there, enough to supply the windowsill with a wee jug of colour. Not quite the cutting garden I'm aiming for yet but hey, these things won't happen overnight.
Toodle pip
J
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Monday, 11 June 2012
How to kill off the sunshine ...
I seem to have killed off the short window of nice weather we'd been having. Let me explain.
I've muttered about getting myself a traditional deck chair on and off for quite a good while, but I was finding the high price of "nice" ones off putting. The ones I could afford looked cheap and nasty with flimsy looking plastic bits doing the job on the holdy uppy part, now as someone still carrying a tad too much baby weight (ahem I mean toddler weight these days) that concerned me.
So, when him indoors returned from his usual jaunt to the Saturday morning car booty on the York racecourse clutching this beauty I was tickled pink. And this one came in at the bargain price of £10 ker-ching!
So I set to work scrubbing/brushing/hosing down it to clean it up - I think I got a tad over enthusiastic on some bits. Once I was done and it started to dry the canvas started looking a tad thin, the muck was obviosuly holding it together. So twenty minutes and a good a pootle round Google later I came up with this corker of a web site - Deck Chair Stripes - and ordered me some stripey fun. A short wait for mr postie to deliver the goods and ta dah!
Courtesy of an antique wax rub down for the frame, the stripey fun and a batch of upholsotery nails I now have a stylish new perch for flopping out in the garden. The rain aint stopped since, typical!
Toode pip
J
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I've muttered about getting myself a traditional deck chair on and off for quite a good while, but I was finding the high price of "nice" ones off putting. The ones I could afford looked cheap and nasty with flimsy looking plastic bits doing the job on the holdy uppy part, now as someone still carrying a tad too much baby weight (ahem I mean toddler weight these days) that concerned me.
So, when him indoors returned from his usual jaunt to the Saturday morning car booty on the York racecourse clutching this beauty I was tickled pink. And this one came in at the bargain price of £10 ker-ching!
So I set to work scrubbing/brushing/hosing down it to clean it up - I think I got a tad over enthusiastic on some bits. Once I was done and it started to dry the canvas started looking a tad thin, the muck was obviosuly holding it together. So twenty minutes and a good a pootle round Google later I came up with this corker of a web site - Deck Chair Stripes - and ordered me some stripey fun. A short wait for mr postie to deliver the goods and ta dah!
Courtesy of an antique wax rub down for the frame, the stripey fun and a batch of upholsotery nails I now have a stylish new perch for flopping out in the garden. The rain aint stopped since, typical!
Toode pip
J
x
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Garden of delights
Despite the rather poor spring weather work has been progressing well on hard landscaping the garden here at the patch.
We've re-laid the patio putting down a weed membrane to avoid the intensive dandelion cultivation we had going on before ...
The patio sits at the sunniest corner of our garden and we've designed it to wrap around a Bramley apple tree .. fingers crossed the bees have been busy doing their pollination so we get a wee crop of apples later this year. In years to come I envisage the apple tree providing a little bit of shade to sit under on warm sunny days .. sigh!
We've also got the veggie beds underway. Thanks to the recycling potential of flogging some old possessions via ebay we've pulled together sufficient cash to purchase some gorgeous chunky railway sleepers to make some raised beds. The beds go in ...
Add some wigwams sourced from our local woods - these provide the structure for the peas. You can't have a peapod patch without some peas ...
And add the odd bus stop of course ...
The wigwam in this shot contains this years attempt at my all time favourite sweet peas, fingers crossed for a bumper crop.
My garden inspiration at the moment is entirely coming from this lady ...
The book was a birthday gift last month. Here is one of my first Raven inspired bouquets adorning the windowsill ...
Toodle pip
J
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We've re-laid the patio putting down a weed membrane to avoid the intensive dandelion cultivation we had going on before ...
The patio sits at the sunniest corner of our garden and we've designed it to wrap around a Bramley apple tree .. fingers crossed the bees have been busy doing their pollination so we get a wee crop of apples later this year. In years to come I envisage the apple tree providing a little bit of shade to sit under on warm sunny days .. sigh!
We've also got the veggie beds underway. Thanks to the recycling potential of flogging some old possessions via ebay we've pulled together sufficient cash to purchase some gorgeous chunky railway sleepers to make some raised beds. The beds go in ...
Add some wigwams sourced from our local woods - these provide the structure for the peas. You can't have a peapod patch without some peas ...
And add the odd bus stop of course ...
The wigwam in this shot contains this years attempt at my all time favourite sweet peas, fingers crossed for a bumper crop.
My garden inspiration at the moment is entirely coming from this lady ...
The book was a birthday gift last month. Here is one of my first Raven inspired bouquets adorning the windowsill ...
Toodle pip
J
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