Why I have been absent.

Hello Everyone - I hope you all are well and keeping safe.

I know it has been a long while since I have written or posted anything or has often has I use too. 

Why or what has happened, last year I witness a traumatic event when a immediately family member got seriously ill and was took into hospital. I've never been apart for long periods of time from this family member before. I thank God every day that this family member is still with us..

I've been trying to recover from what I had witness. I went thorough what felt like hell at times, these past 13 months and I believe I am nearly past the worse of it.  I have always been a carer for this family member, but since June last year this has gone up a notch or too.

In my darkest hours of this time I re found my faith and I feel more calmer in my life and compete.  I have and I guess I am also still, finding my way and learning the new me. While mourning the old ways of life. 

So now you know why I haven't been about much... 

Thank you for stopping by and Thank you for you're loyalty if you are a returning follower. 

Until next time stay safe.

Blessings 

Em aka Busybee 

I am back

Hello Everyone!

So sorry I have not posted anything in the last 12 months.

My ipad died in September of last year 2019 and my phone was slowly packing up also. 

I now still do not have a new ipad or laptop... But I do have a new phone, so hopefully I will be posting as and when. I need to get my blogging  mojo back. 

New Year Wishes

First of all I like to wish everyone a Happy New Year. Secondly I would like to say sorry for the lack of post last year. It was partly to do with a family situation, and also the fact I had trouble with the tablet I use to write this on...

Hopefully I have sorted the problem out, so full stream ahead

New Friend

Hello all -  I'm still alive.....

If you are wondering where I have been. Well the answer is, I had trouble with my newish iPad (He was new to me anyhow ). I learnt I could write posts easy on the iPad. But couldn't upload photos, maybe my brother new of a way but didn't want to share and I couldn't go back to my old nexus7 as it was slowly dying. (Its still dying)


Until the other day when my Godmother said I could have her kindle fire.  Has she was upgrading to the latest version.  At first I was a little unsure about it, as I always thought the kindle is just for books. How wrong am I?


Today my Godmother pop around for coffee and a chat with my mum, she also dropped off the kindle.


I've decided from now on this is what I will be using from now on to blog...


See you soon 

Happy New Year

Wishing all my readers a Very Happy New Year.

How the garden looks!

It as been a while since I've written anythink. To be honest my life if up in air at the moment.  That much so I have let the garden do what it want's.

I have even let every single weed or should I say miss placed plants. Yes there is dandelions!

You may have noticed the buddleia is no longer. Like we are all told buddleias will take over.  Well it's true, the buddleia started to take over the garden.  Which isn't good for my little garden.

Grandmother's Tree #TreeFollowing

It as been a while since I have done an updates on my grandmother's tree.

Before I start I best say I can not promise I will do a post every single month.

So like I have said in the past, nearly every day I walk or drive past my grandmother's tree. In some ways you could say I've been #treefollowing.
I do have to report back to family.

Back in May I noticed how my tree had started to blossom, by the 11th the tree was in full bloom... Then on the 14th of June I noticed my tree had lost its blossom.

I'm not completely sure if you can see from the pictures that there is fruit, little berries that looks like blueberries. 

Please note they are not edible of course.

I'll finish off here till next time.

Don't forget to search #treefollowing on

 twitter or Instagram

Nature showing the way

In my last post I wrote how I had hit a brick wall, lost my gardening mojo. Down to the fact slugs and snails had ate everythink even the stuff I grew from seed.

I started to give up on my passion in life.

Just like I did when I was fourteen years old, which made me very much sad.

Then somethink beautiful happened - nature.

Nature took complete over and I didn't really mind either... 

Nature shown me to not give up, not even to give up on your dreams.

This is how the well nature took over.

 

My Aloe Vera's in my mini greenhouse that is falling to pieces slowly.

I am amazed how well the Rhapsody in Blue has done this year... If your wondering where I got it from here is the link - https://grovesnurseries.co.uk 

I'm not happy about the rose I bought from local Morrison's store. The rose I bought was the Queen Elizabeth Rose for £5.00 , but to me it looks like the rose as died, actually when I planted it there was not much of a root on it either.

My little tea plant!

Next post will be how I have saved a tomato plant..

Having a off spell

Back in May I wrote about my plan to use up most or all of my seed stash.

I started off well, then one night while I was at work on my break I got a call from my mum to say the garden is covered with snails and slugs. 

I was horrified to hear that!

So I ordered nemaslug and two days after it arrived I made the formula up and watered my garden. 

Then that night and the next few nights I was out collecting them up in a 5ltr clear empty water bottle. 

At one point it creeped me out.... 

So as you can guess they ate everythink I grew from seed. I was so heartbroken, I think I must be still.

So today is Friday 22nd of July and I have hit a all time low, fed up with how the garden looks..

I'm seriously hoping I snap out of it soon..
Only time will tell. 

All Seeds Out!

If you follow my crafting blog you will know how I am trying to clear out my craft supplies.  

So it won't be such of a surprise, that is what I am hoping to do with all my seeds.  Shocker right? A true gardener wouldn't do that I hear you say...

Well honestly I don't want to de-stash.

But every season I like most of you, I buy most of the gardening magazines which give more free seeds.

So how bad is it really - well here is the proof!

Some of the packets I just can't find, down to the fact - I've stashed them away.... Well and truly!

Over the coming weeks I'll let you know how I get on..

So watch this space 

Life

I noticed the first week of December on twitter and on my local news, how everywhere had spring flowers out.. 

Then on the 15th of December my family and myself went to Wales to visit friends and pick up our new family member (Which I will write about soon). 

Anyway on our way through Yeovil, we came across daffodils right along the road for a few miles. I honestly tried so hard to get a photo - but failed!!! 

Then a few days before - well it was a few nights before Christmas week I noticed, Life in my little garden.

Saint Johns wort

Rasphy in Blue rose

Rhododendron

Flowers out on Fushia's and Geranium's 

Even the hyacinth's have popped up.. Not bad as I bought these last year at my local Morrison's  store for 15p each was £2 they were reduced!

At the time I was ill so I could not get any pictures.

A New Year!

First of all I just want to wish everyone a happy new year and I hope you all had a good time over the festive period?

Sorry it's been a while since I have posted anythink on here.  

So what are my plans for 2016?  

This is my plan.

• Tropical Weymouth 

• Reviews

• All Seeds out

I will be working on the above.

I also need to look into dog friendly plants as well.

As I now have a dog, who loves eating everythink in sight..  My cats don't seem so fuss as long as they have grass to eat.

So watch this space... 

Going Wild

I think I have said before how my little garden becomes a jungle during the summer.  It is normal down to how much I grow. From tomato's, to beans, yams and cucamelons, the list goes on...

But this year I have failed, to spend time in the garden. I have grown sweet peas, wild flowers and garlic. My garlic is a bit behind, maybe about six weeks or more. I'm still waiting and praying for the scapes to appear!

I got my garlic bulbs 30 for £9.99 (please keep in mind price may change) from South West Garlic Farm base here in Dorset. Mark and his family is well known for their Black Garlic!

Which by the way I have tried and wow the garlic its self doesn't taste like the white blub garlic that you get in the supermarkets. How can I described it, hmmm, to me the black garlic as a kind of sweet taste to it!

You need to try it to see what I mean! So back to the garden.... 

Remember the Christmas tree I bought from Groves at Bridport about two years ago or more.. Well I finally found a nice pot to pot it up in back in April.  I also bought a couple more of the same pot. To pot up two other plants I just wished I got more now. I used one of the pots to pot up the rose I bought for my mum on mother's day a few years back ' Rhapsody In Blue' also from Groves at Bridport.

Plus two years ago my mum bought me a tea plant, I'm ashamed to say its took till April this year to find the right pot! 

The tea plant is the one closes to us with the bee in and the rose Rhapsody in Blue is in the pot behind.

Has you can see it is wild were the tree is!

So Ive named this post as 'Going Wild' well... I have a buddleia that appeared, I think I have wrote about it before now. Anyway I thought I was on top of it, keeping the buddleia under control. Then last month I was not to good with my health.  So I think the plant had decided to go completely wild. I know people call it a weed, an unloved plant.  But I have always like  the buddleia since I was little. I have fond memories of walking to school in the summer and looking forward to seeing the buddleia to see what bees or butterflies was on it. Has I walked past on my way to and from my little primary school..

This is how my one looks it towers over me!

Picture

This one is from my kitchen window.

Life

I wrote this down on the 6/6/15, but before I could upload and post this I caught a virus that knock the stuffing out of me.. Today is the first day I have felt well enough to post this!

Wow, I can not believe how fast the #treefollows come round. . .  I am not complaining honestly.

Yesterday (5/6/15)  while walking home in the evening I popped into the gardens to see my tree.

I can not quite believe it was 7:45pm in the evening and how it was still daylight.. 

So while I was there checking to see what had changed or not. I got asked by a lady who was walking her dog what was I upto? I explained the tree was for my grandmother and that I write about the tree in a monthly #treefollow. The lady said that the #treefollow sounded interesting, she smiled and carried on walking around the park with her dog.  I then carried on what I was doing taking notes and photos. 

So I checked the leaves to see if someone had been nubbling them, from what I can see no one as been.

Some think I had noticed when walking into the park the blossom had gone. So next I checked to see if there was any berries forming? And look berries!

Then before I left the park I noticed someone else was coming to see me... 

I was so happy to see the little ladybird.. They are one of my favourite garden friends.

Just look she (could be a he) is a two spotted!

Blossom!

So nearly every day I walk past the gardens either too or from work, friends and family. You would think I would notice when somethink as changed. Right?

Well its not always the case, some time the gardens are really busy with students or people walking their dog's. So I wait patiently for a quite moment. I suppose really I don't really want people questioning what I'm up to.  Bad I know..

Anyway!

About two weeks after my last post about the gardens and my tree. The Prunus Grandiflora (grandmother's tree) started to bloom. Yay!!!

Sorry about the windswept looking picture.

Look how beautiful this one above turn out. After me taking picture after picture to get the right one..

The rest of the garden since the new fencing went up is slowly getting there. I first thought WHAT!!! No shrubs, but I'm not sure if you can tell by the picture below.  There is wild flowers and grass growing. Maybe the local gardeners will class the wild flowers as weeds.. But for me I like love the let nature take its course kind of thing!

One last thing the other trees in the gardens are just about still flowering!

The Sort Out

The past couple of week I have been busy on my days off sorting out the garden. I finally decided to get rid of the unused barque that was falling to bits.. Due to weather and the little family of woodlice. Which I'm not entitle sure how they have moved in. Maybe its due to the plant swapes/shares and buying! I really do not mind how they have moved in, I think they are cute..

Has you can see from the picture above (1) the barque has gone... Also remember the New Zealand Flax? That my aunt was going to have, well she never came to get the flax. Then last winter hit and I believe the flax died, so I sorted the pot out and bagged up the plant. The picture is above (2) is how the planter is looking at the moment..