Some Garden photos

 

Lilian's Amaryllis 

The beautiful Flowering Cherry in our garden

 

Good Morning Ladies, 

With ot being the 1st of April I thought I'd share some of Mother Nature's Spring treats with you.  I am starting with a photo that Lilian shared of Roger's Amaryllis, how beautiful is the colour?! The flowers are enormous too!  Thank you so much for sharing it with us Lilian xxx

I hope that you all had a lovely Easter Sunday, do you all have a roast dinner?   It's one of the few times we will have lamb, I only like to buy British lamb,  but its so expensive,  the leg we bought was 2.4 kg, it would have been £35 but Morissons had a club card deal so it has half price, believe me Mr Yorkshire would not be ok with spending that much on a Sunday roast!!  The thing is with lamb is that a lot of that 2 4kg is the huge bone, it's a nightmare to carve, I wish I had the butchering skill to be able to take the bone out before roasting!   

We had a busy day in the garden yesterday,  We did some more painting of raised beds, Paul has the first ones in position now,  so they are ready to be filled,  we are going to do the 'no dig' method, so we will sit the raised beds on the ground, add some cardboard in the bottom which will kill off the grass and weeds (hopefully), we then will fill them with top soil and compost, we are both really excited to get started.   I took some before photos of different parts of the garden, hopefully the 'after 'photos will be an improvement! 🤣

I was mostly potting up and potting on, I ordered some beautiful Dahlias a few weeks ago, the actually came from Holland,  so they got put into big terracotta pots yesterday,  we (paul) had to mix sharp and grit into the compost to help it be more free draining,  apparently dahlia don't like to be in heavy wet soil.  After potting those up I moved on to potting on our Sweet Peas, Sweetcorn and Cosmos daisy, I needed to do Lupins and poppy but my body said no more!!  The medication I take has some pretty nasty side effects if not taken on time,  its because they are an opiate,  over the 15+ years I've been on them my body has become reliant on them (addicted I guess), however I don’t like to keep changing the time I take them,  the clock change can cause a bit of an issue, I had totally forgotten yesterday about the hour change and I couldn't understand why I was in so much excruciating pain, I literally had to lie down and take the weight off of my lower back and hips!  Then it dawned on me that pill time was 45 minutes ago, its surprising how fast it wears off.  Luckily it only takes about 20 minutes to take effect. I did end up taking paracetamol too.  But we had a lovely day doing something that we both enjoy, we were both getting excited about seeing everything growing.

Today is forecast rain most of the day though, so we probably won't get much done out side. We probably need a day of rest though. 

I was so excited to see all the different colours and shapes of the daffodils in our garden, we bought some bulbs that were half price late last autumn,  we weren't sure they would come up but they have, so I took some photos to share with you...

How incredible is this variety,  it has three tiny daffodil heads on one stem. 

This one is so beautiful it has about 6 layers of petals, mother nature is do amazing at times! 

Another beautiful variety it was hard to capture the intensity of that yellow centre.

Another triple head on one stem, I honestly didn't realise that there were so many variables. 

A few of our tulips, there are lots just waiting to burst open !! 

As I was tip-toeing through my tulips I discovered a little clump of violets, what a lovely surprise!  😍 

I'm sorry it wasn't a craft related blog today, I just didn't have the energy to make a card, I was also excited to share my gorgeous daffodils with you.

I hope you all have a lovely Holiday Monday,

Love and hugs to all of you,  

Sandra xxx