A different Mixed Up Saturday

 How true is this?! 

(Thanka Maria xxx)

Good Saturday Morning, 

I hope that you are all ready to have a lovely weekend.  Covid has me beat, its proper affecting my heart, it took me so long to get downstairs yesterday,  I had to do a couple of steps then sit down and get my breath back. I slept on and off most of the morning and early afternoon! I did try and sit and do a tutorial but tiredness caused me to struggle to concentrate so I ended up losing patience and giving up!  

So instead of seeing a tutorial today, I have taken some photos of some of the flowers on our deck, I will admit that growing flowers for pots is as fun to me as making cards, the different pots seem to have a different surprise for me every morning, a new flower or a bud has opened

My Beautiful Dahlias,  I have been looking at some new varieties for next year, I find them so incredibly perfect to look at, so many different colours a shapes that I can't decide which ones to buy.  We will also dig a bed for them rather than having them in pots.  Although i love having them just outside the back door.

This is 'The Fairy' rose, its so pretty and has literally thousands of buds waiting to pop open, its huge and has spread the whole way down the stairs on one side of the deck.

A couple more Dahlias !

If I could recommend anything for you to try next year it would be these Climbing Petunias,  they are gorgeous and have filled the whole tub. There are so many flowers on them, worth every penny.

Not as exciting but I find the darling flowers on the lobelia so fascinating,  thats a mint in front.

No introduction necessary but worth including, pretty bright pink Geranium, this we managed to save from last year.

Our first Zinnia, they have taken ages to flower  I sowed these in February. 

Beautiful daisy's! 

Now I have to say that I was not prepared for how gorgeous this fuschia is, we bought it back in March, it cost £1.50 so we weren't expecting much, but oh my, she's like a perfect little ballerina, with big poofy skirt with layered petticoats underneath, I must have spent 15 minutes sat taking in all the details. 

I tried to capture the chocolate box purple velvet texture of this petunia, so pretty!

This rose is a commemorative rose when we lost our dog Gemma, she was part of our family for 13 years and left a huge hole.  So Paul went out and picked this pretty rose and a large pot to put her ashes in.  She has treated us to a lovey display of roses every year.

A lovely purple clematis.

The first Cosmos flower, I was beginning to think we wouldn't get flowers from them but on closer inspection there are loads of buds waiting to open.

That's it for today,  sorry there's no card tutorial,  I was determined to not let Covid stop me but it clearly had more determination than me!  

I hope that you all have a lovely Saturday, 

Love and hugs to all, 

Sandra  xxx