A walk around my garden

Hi,

It seems ages since I did a walk around my garden,  and as I have not a lot to put on my blog,  I thought I would do a walk,  the first walk this year,  the weather this year has been the best,  a wet winter, wet spring followed by a wet summer,  it’s been around or below average temperatures so that has not helped either.  With Vernon out of action as well,  and having to do everything the garden has suffer even more, so please don’t look too hard,  the weeds grow faster than the plants.

The picture above is a new lily bulb I brought in the spring called Viva La Vida and it’s striking colours,  brought some sunshine to the garden.

 

This is my yellow day lilies,  I have some in orange too,  but they went over before I could get a picture of them.

this is a hebe,  I found this growing in the gravel it’s not a seedling from my garden and the birds must have dropped to,  and it grow,  so I transplanted into a better spot,  it has pale purple flowers.  A nice gift via a bird.

This is my pink Hebe,  this is a cutting which I took of another Hebe,  originally I planted a Hebe,  to go over my dogs grave in my mothers garden and then I took cuttings,  I call it Shona’s bush,  as I have no idea what name it should have.

This is Evening primrose,  they are a pain really,  they seed themselves where they want to be,  not necessarily where I want them,  if I try and transplant them they die,  so I tend to leave them,  well one or two depending where they came up, and pull the rest up,  this year they have grown very tall,  the flowers only last about a day.

This is very pretty plant,  lovely pink flowers,  I have no idea what’s it’s called,  but it’s really a front of border plant.

These are beautiful orange flowers,  I saw these when we stayed in Weymouth and collected a few seeds,  which I have been able to grow, again,   They do tend to self seed themselves which is fine,  I  have no idea what they are called.

This is a bush Fuchsia called Lena Dalton,  I brought this plant in the spring and I am very pleased with it,  in the pot beside is my Nerines,  they flower in the autumn,  I put the bulbs in the pot last year,  I have plenty of leaves hoping for some flowers in the autumn.

I forgot this is my marrows,  I love marrows,  I thought I would try to grow one,  ha ha lots of flowers but the veg,  they just seem to start to grow and then rot,  might be the weather,  who knows,  but I don’t think it’s going to give me any marrows,   My tomatoes and runners beans are not as good this year either.

Well that’s a quick walk around the garden,  the photos have been taken over the last two months,  

Hope you enjoyed your walk

Margaret

Debbi Moore 15 birthday Competition

 

Hi,

I am a very happy bunny today,  I made this card for the Debbi Moore 15 years birthday competition,  of course I did not win,  never expected I would,  but the new magazine came today   Bring inspiration to you. Number 69,  and there was my card on page 68 with the other cards on the 15 Birthday gallery.  There are some lovely cards, for the competition,  it’s nice to at least have the card published.

I hope you like my card,  I will now put in a folder and keep it,  I try to keep cards that were made for competitions over the year.

Thank you Debbi for including my card.

Margaret

2024 TTAL - temperature tat along part 11

 

Hi,

I’m falling behind again,  looking after hubby and the hot weather we had is taking its toll on the fibromyalgia.  

Here is mine finished July,  I am working in a square clock wise,  getting bigger it’s 15 and a half square, I have some ends to sew in,  even though we had some very hot days we still have not reached 30c I was hoping to do red,  we had to cancel our holiday which would have given me a red,  I hope we can have some more nice days before the winter.   

Temperatures as per Somerset in the West Country U.K.

Have a lovely day

Margaret 

CD Sunday challenge, - anything goes # 140

 Hi,

It’s now the middle of August,  where has this year gone,  just a few more days to wait before Vernon will finally get a scan on his shoulder,  he had the accident in June,  saw the orthopaedic surgeon on the 3rd July and the scan he wanted is on the 24th August,  we have been farmed out to another hospital   When I rang the RUH Bath   I was told that was quick and if we wait for the RUH bath it would be end of October

This challenge this fortnight is being hosted by Meg,

For my card this fortnight,  I found a brilliant card on craftsuprint.com,   It’s our friends birthday who came with us to Scotland in April,  so thought this would be ideally suited.  By the time this challenge is due he will have already had this card, 

 CD Sunday Plus challenge has a Facebook page for those who would like to enter the challenge and do not have a blog,   here is a link to the page

I hope you will visit the CD Sunday Plus Challenge site, and remember if you want to enter the challenge you must use something from a CD, USB or digital material no matter how small and let us know where and what you used the material from,   and that it is a card or a project.    Here is a link to CD Sunday Plus Challenge blog  we would be pleased to see you.

Enjoy your weekend,

Margaret

Happy 22nd Wedding Anniversary

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Hi,

Today is our 22nd wedding anniversary,  funny how today falls on  a Friday and 22 years  ago it was a Friday we got married on.

We have had our ups and downs and at the moment,  I am looking after Vernon,  he had a fall on the 16th June  and after an X-ray we were told he had three fractures in his shoulder,  by our local minor injuries unit,    We saw  the orthopaedic surgeon on the 3rd July,  next Saturday the 24th he will have a scan we have been farmed out to another small hospital for the  scan on his injury,  when I asked about waiting so long I was told that was quick,  if we had waited for the Royal United hospital in Bath it would have been the end of October.   Then we have to inform the surgeon that he’s had the scan and wait for an appointment to see him.  Hopefully we will find out what real damage has been done.   He’s  beginning to do little things with his good arm,  not easy and he gets frustrated,  I am totally knackered and exhausted,  with the fibromyalgia playing up as well.  Still it is in sickness and in health,  so we just pod n.

I made a quick card,  it’s all from stash,  I tried to make it masculine,  he’s not one for a card that’s too feminine,  so I hope he likes it,  instead of flowers, ribbon or feathers,  I just used die cut foliage and three die cut hearts,   I’m afraid my mojo seems to be tried too, or has disappeared,  hopefully it will come back soon.

Margaret 

CD Sunday challenge - anything goes #139

 

Hi,

Another challenge on CD Sunday,  this is always a hard day for me it would have been my fathers birthday ,  and also my dogs birthday,  she was a Lhasa Apso,  I had her almost 16 years and she got me though some of my toughest times in my life.  Lhasa being the capital of Tibet and the only breed of dog  allowed in a Tibetan monastery.  I still miss her,  perhaps one day I may get another.

On another note, Amines,  has dropped out due the hurricane Beryl for the time being and hopefully when everything settled she may be back with us,  there is an update link on Carols blog.

On with this challenge as always it’s anything goes and the host is Pamela

For my card this fortnight I used a blank card by KatySue,  first time I have brought anything from her and I am pleased with the quality of the card.  I used an old favourite CD Pamela West collection by Joanna Sheen for the  image and background,   the ivy die is also from Joanna Sheen,  peel off words and a hand made bow.

CD Sunday Plus challenge has a Facebook page for those who would like to enter the challenge and do not have a blog,   here is a link to the page 

I hope you will visit the CD Sunday Plus Challenge site, and remember if you want to enter the challenge you must use something from a CD, USB or digital material no matter how small and let us know where and what you used the material from,   and that it is a card or a project.    Here is a link to CD Sunday Plus Challenge blog  we would be pleased to see you. 

Margaret