A Weekend Stroll In The Gardens

As usual, we went for a walk around our and our neighbours' gardens after we'd eaten 'brekky'. It's a ritual left over from our days with a much bigger garden; a gentle start to a day of ... promise.

Contorted Willow, even the leaves are twisted

My neighbours tulips all in a line, ATTENTION!!

The Raspberries are in bud and filling out nicely. 

As for the proto-goosegogs, they look like gonads ... in my opinion. IS IT JUST ME???

THE NEIGHBOURS' FERN IS UNFURLING BEAUTIFULLY - WHAT ABOUT MINE??  They're STILL asleep - Why???

The bad thing about her garden is this, Japanese Knotweed. Man, she has masses of it.

Her periwinkles twinkle in the sun.

And as for the Cherry Laurels, well, looky, amazin' and the smell, so sweet and heady and following on from the ARMANDII  Clematis in our garden gives a over a month and a half of perfume in the garden.

Faux Raspberry shining in next doors' garden.

Not to be outdone, here are our tulips in a VERY spring bed.

Strawberry pots never work, unless you use Alpine Strawberries. They work brilliantly.

More of my Poppy's. These are ragged stylee and I love them.

Now it's tipping with rain, we can definitely say we had the best of the day.

Me and My Gardening Day.

The customers had me running around cutting their lawns. PHEW!!

One customer showed me his dead looking BANANA PLANTS. I'm in the same boat, sadly. It was a nasty winter.

On the bright side, he showed off his pride and joy.  A Slow Worm, one of a pair, that snooze in the top of his compost heap. 

This is pretty normal around here at this time of year and one of the best things to see in a garden. For a different view of this beastie, go to http://muddygirly.blogspot.com/

In the same garden, quietly unfurling, are these fern fronds. Mine are still completely asleep and I live just down the hill.. NOT FAIR!

GARDEN PLOT

 Getting the Peas In.

Still in the loo roll centres and looking ready to be popped into hte warm soil.

Found quite a few of these CENTIPEDES hiding in the peas. Also found a Millipede, but it scarpered before I could get a piccy.

The other thing I found a few of was this - snails eggs ..... or are they slugs. As I can't see hoe snails would get inside the loo roll tubes, i reckon on them being slugs eggs. I put them, what ever they were, in the compost.

2 rows planted and 2 to go in.I took them out of the loo roll tubes, despite the fact tat the person who gave me the white tubes, said there's no need to as the roots push through the card easily. I didn't see any evidence of that happening.

Unwrapped seedling. I used last years used grow bag compost to start them off. Peas are power packs and don't need loads of rich compost to start with.

All in. The last 6 were left in the tubes, as an experiment to see how they compare with the other ones.

I made a small dip on the uphill side of each plant as a reservoir for watering.

My work here is complete. I head home for a nice cup of tea and a mooch around my own garden.

So WHAT'S NEW?

This reed is flowering. It has a lovely variegated leaf too.

Not a Forget Me Not!!

  This is a Forget Me Not!

My first Tulip of the year. I love Tulips.

Daffs are going over, Tulips are on their way, and everything else is zinging with colour. PUKKA SPRING BED.

Small, but perfectly formed.

AND my Plum's in bloom.

TIME FOR ANOVA CUPPA