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..

Blooming good!

Remember last month I wrote about how the local council gardening team had nearly destroyed the park garden or aka Saint Johns Gardens! 

Last month!

I wrote how I was worried about how and what they were doing or going to be doing to the gardens...  

Putting my worry's and fears to one side now.  Has I have some very happy news. . . The local gardeners have put a basic wooden fence up. Not very completed in places. But better than nothink - right? 

Has you can see the other trees in the park are all in bloom! Only down side is the boarders were the fence goes into are now empty, I just hope that they the gardening team puts some shrub's in at a later date!

I do like how the gardening team have used railway sleepers in one of the corners. 

Back to my grandmother's tree.  At a glance the tree looks like it's doing no think. 

It is only when I got up close and personal I saw in fact that the tree is in bud!

Before I finish this post I have been looking back on my #treefollow journey. I can not quite believe its been a year since I joined!!  I know for sure I will keep this #treefollowing going..