Friday, 4 June 2021
As usual, I got little done but minor puttering on the first day off of four. I admired all the beans and courgettes that are popping up.
Last night we had broad beans for dinner. Though tasty, some of the pods only had one bean. They were more successful when eaten, pod and all, as small green beans.
I cut down the big flowering stalks, now looking tired, on the Melianthus major. The stalks were so thick and hard that I needed Allan’s help cutting through.
I invited two admiring passersby to view the garden. We walked all around. Not till the end of the visit did I find out that I knew who they were. They did look familiar. Face blindness is a curse!
Faerie enjoyed her new Catio furniture. (I have no idea why auto fill insists on capitalizing Catio.)
After some pretty inneffective puttering (even a bit of compost shifting in the bins), the day had been frittered away till campfire time. At last, an evening with no wind. I photographed some of the garden.
Diplarrena latifolia:
An epimedium whose tag is…somewhere:
Rose ‘Radway Sunrise’ and white camassia and a nice peachy geum:
My mom’s “red velvet rose”:
Rosa pteracantha:
Is it normal for Panicum grass to come up with white blades that then turn blue-green?
The beautiful but terribly annoying sweet woodruff:
Peony and my only eremurus so far:
Rosa rubrifolia and Allium christophii at dusk:
We had a campfire dinner with some dry, cut wood from the willow grove, eliminating one wood pile.
We retrieved Skooter from squabbling with an unseen adversary in the Bogsy Wood…
….and ended the day with Gardeners’ World and Springwatch on BritBox.
I liked that peachy geum.
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Yay! Finally a campfire dinner! The dogs didn’t have to go back in the freezer!
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Beautiful garden! I always like seeing your campfires. Nice way to end the day. Faerie is a lucky kitty to have such nice furniture to stretch out on.
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She is a good little cat who deserves it. 🙂
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