I look out of the bedroom window at the so neat bed Simon the Green Man has dug and my mind immediately whistles off to summer and the flowers it will contain! Three foot wide, between the pump and some sort of cover it will tumble with lavender and white shasta daisies (hopefully), the background of the church wall offsetting the colours and keeping a warm backing. Apparently we have not dug the roses in deep enough, but a bit of judicious heaping up of the soil will help with that. We have an awful lot of pebbled driveway as well, but I shall buy containers for plants, already have some on the south wall.
I did look at this for the front lawn ;) Paul would have been so pleased on losing the grass......must be somewhere in Ameria I think. But should Brexit bring us to our knees, it is worth contemplating. The American ambassador has just been on the radio justifying American farming practices, he got a right old rollicking last week about chlorinated chickens. I bought an organic chicken £8 for the weekend wasn't cheap but really did taste better.
Lucy walks the plank over the pebbles, the tip-tap of her paws heralding her approach to the back door, her front paw bleeds, apparently it happens in spaniels, so that now we lay a rug for her to jump into the car. Of course some weight loss would not come amiss......
Love the farm instead of a lawn photo. Your garden looks so neat - we won't go there with mine! Your price for the organic chicken was good - when we get one from Ffairfach, it's done on weight of course, and it works out about £13, but then it does for lots of meals (put in the freezer in portions once concocted.)
ReplyDeleteIt is also kinder to the chickens free range of course, and as you say you can make several different meals with one large chicken Jennie.
DeleteLike BB above I live the idea of those raised beds - that is until I think of the work involved.
ReplyDeleteI like that border. It looks very much like the one where my son planted all the tulips for me and where something (probably mice) has dug up and eaten most of them.
I like the idea of lavender and shasta daisies - might just pinch the idea from you if you don't object.
How can I object, flowers are flowers. We have mice living in the church wall in the drainage holes, and I think one in the hedgehog house as there is a little nest of hay. I cultivate my poor mice for the barn owls sadly..
DeleteYour garden looks lovely and will look even prettier in a few months. I find the planning of a garden more fun than the planting. Anticipation is such a joy.
ReplyDeleteThe American people are also sick/upset/angry at all the chemicals and hormones that Corporate Farms are putting into our food. This is the reason why stores like Whole Foods are doing so well. Of course, Bezos of Amazon just bought it so who knows if that will change. We have to read every label carefully.
Life is a constant battle seemingly, against economic forces that devalue everything, especially our food. What we need is a slower pace of life for everything, and slow food.
ReplyDeleteThat new border looks so bare at the moment. It will be nice to see how it looks in August. Interesting to see that like John Gray you live right next to a churchyard. This is my first time over here Thelma but as a famous film star once said - I'll be back!
ReplyDeleteWelcome YP, it is probably more interesting the bare the border, than filled with flowers, though it has rose bushes in it. And yes like John Gray we live next door to the church, which is sadly losing its function in life. It provides plenty of interest though, people come to 'talk' to their loved ones and change the flowers and plants. Glad you made it over, don't bring that man with you though;)
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