fresh air friday

 Thanks for your get well wishes

I'm sure I'm not alone with this cold thing,
the flowers are blooming for me today
and not just in my garden :O(

I cannot stop taking photos this week,

so I shall let you peruse my choices 

and discuss after.

 

 Another fantastic display of lupins this year

(all grown by seed!!)

I thought the white one looked like 

Gaudis cathedral in Barcelona!

feeding time at the zoo!

 This plant self seeded by my front door,

the flower was a lovely purple thing,

but these seed heads..well?!

They are about the size of a tennis ball,

any ideas?

I have been enjoying the garden for sure this year!

I'm really very excited at how things are 

changing for the better year on year.

And I cant wait for even more maturity.

Stuff I've done this week:

Pruned shrubs to shape and to invigorate growth.

Tied in growing ends of the grape vine.

Planted out butternut squash.

Eaten lots of peppery salad and turnips.

Sprayed aphids with washing up liquid solution.

Fed rhododendron, ericaceous liquid feed.

Pruned new plum tree

(normally done in June, due to silver leaf disease

my garden thinks its June so meh!)

Thinned out apples.

Covered strawberries.

Pondered...watered...relaxed...
sniffed