Thanks to my many lovely friends, the garden is still looking beautiful; daffs are hanging on, tulips blooming, one magnolia is still making new blooms and the other is about to burst open.
Not bad for an iPhone.
It’s worth a thank you. I didn’t want to garden last year, but being sent trees and bulbs meant I had to and now, in a lovely Spring, we’ve just loved the colour and joy it has brought us. We’ve even sat out in the evenings, just enjoying the peace and the colour and each others company.
They still look gorgeous, even now they are fading. I don’t want them to go.
Freddie’s Tree.
But time marches on and I want something I can see and touch and taste this year in the autumn and winter. So Josie and I have been planting and watering and making that happen.
There are pots with herbs, pots set ready for tomatoes sprouting on the windowsill, pots with peas and beans already showing through, pots with spring onions and radishes. (Yes I really did say I had done things ahead of time.)
There is also Playmobil spread across the garden…
These pots have carrots, potatoes and two types of courgette and when the beetroot, cabbage, cauliflower and very possibly something else upstairs shoot, they will get moved into what is about to become a veg patch underneath them.
I’m not totally sure where the pots will go then.
Some orange tulips snuck up on us.
Josie and I have thrown handfuls of flower seeds into the beds too. And sunflowers.
I spy, with my mummy eye…
This is my happy face. I will garden. You never know.
Where are the Chili plants?
Hm. I really want to grow one actually, but our kitchen is so dark and has such a small windowshelf. Not sure I fancy it in the lounge.
So glad that someone grows veg in pots! 🙂
The trees and bulbs are lovley 🙂
Am rather scared of the real veg patch thing, I must say. Pots are so easy.
Someone once said to me, a gardener is someone who believes in the future. The flowers are lovely, and love all those pots neatly lined up! We grow our veg in pots too – much easier to get good growing conditions and no weeding!
That is a very good way of looking at it 🙂
What a gorgeous container garden!
Container garden… I like that! Make it sound very proper!
Gardening is hugely therapeutic – before you know it you’ll have an allotment!
Grin. Indeed. Possibly by tomorrow in fact if parish council haven’t already assigned it to someone 🙂
It all looks fabulous! We container gardened for two or three years (before breaking out into an honest to goodness garden patch) and I loved it! I hope it’s very successful for you.