Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gardening. Show all posts

Carnage

Monday, 11 March, 2024

Here are a few pictures of the carnage. The worst part of today? Having to throw shelf after shelf of signed books, collected over many years and at great expense, into the bin!

Burnt to a char and still a smile on his face. I'm gonna be keeping this
fella no matter what he looks like after a scrub.

The cause of the fire - faulty electric socket wiring

Our digital clock

Our once bejewelled bedroom ceiling light

Our bedroom TV

The view from the bed

Our telly

My old Jaws shelf, videod here just the other day

Our bedroom fan

The plants in the front porch, however, loved the burst of heat.
I've never seen this Jade looking so good!

Caught the highest tide of the year briefly as we drove back to Mumbles after house-sorting:


We saw something strange as we approached the Airbnb then. Dont Ask! But it ended with a furious dog chasing me from the scene:



Been a busy day but can't complain when there is still time to chill with fudjcat and a good film - The Black Phone. It's our last day in this Mumbles holiday let tomorrow. On Wednesday we relocate to a cheaper caravan/trailer down Llanrhidian for a couple of weeks. Our landlord reckons it will take at least 6-8 weeks to make our house habitable again...

Our Garden Fox is Getting Brave

 Tuesday, 05 May, 2024


A Sunny Morning in the Garden

 Sunday, 03 March, 2024

The sunshine is warm this morning 🌞... 


...and The Soosh has taken to chive-licking.

 

#foolofacat

Mandy Lives!

Thursday, 29 February 2024

Mandy's alive! Despite thinking that my Mandrake had died in the cold damp Welsh weather last Autumn, I brought the root inside and gave it some tender loving care. And look who just popped up above the soil announcing she is alive and well and very much looking forward to a third year of life! 🙂

Hermon Ivy in Our Garden

Sunday, February 25, 2024

The ivy cutting I collected from the ruins of Hermon Chapel, back in 2021 is growing nicely in our garden now. Its located in a few places in our garden now and is a lovely reminder of the chapel than can still be seen from the window of my childhood home :)

An Afternoon venture into the Garden

Sunday, February 11, 2024

It was mild enough for me to go out into the garden today and have a little fire in the chimenea. It was lovely to see that Spring is finally starting to claw its way into 2024 :)



Hagstone

My Yew Cutting, taken from this magnificent tree down the Gower Peninsula, was looking nice and healthy:

My Yew Cutting (pruned to be a bonsai)

Another bonsai in the making - this time a Cherry Tree

It was nice to see that the Sycamore, grown from a trio of seeds I collected a trio of Sycamore from the sacred Chalice Well Gardens, the sacred in Glastonbury:

An old pic of the three Sycamore Seeds collected from Glastonbury

These three seeds have now formed a rather cool 'single' entity whose contortions continue to amaze :)






Cat Balance Training

Friday, 12 December, 2024

One of the neighbour's cats practising their balancing skills on our Sumac tree.

A damp start

Tuesday, December 02, 2024

Looking out at a drizzly new year...



Some more Christmas Gardening

Thursday, December 28, 2033

Sorted out a few more plants this morning.





A Boxing Day Project

My Boxing Day green-fingered project. Re-uniting a mother with her offspring. These were grown from a single leaf cutting I took from a plant I took when my daughter was a newborn.








Crassula Ammonite Topping

September 30, 2023

I've given my oldest Crassula a fossil ammonite soil topping.