Oh yes (if we get some sun!!) just they look so sad at the moment
I also planted some aqualigia, anemones, trailing lobelia and trailing fuscia, chives and mint! Trying to replace at least some of that which died while i was away. Am going back to get some bleeding heart, cosmos and marguerites but they aren't in yet. I sewed some wildflower and cornflower seeds but i don't have much confidence in them doing anything!!! Last autumn i nabbed some poppy seeds from these massive plate sized poppies my mum has and i've planted some in a home made propagator on my kitchen window sill!

I was getting super depressed by life and trying to bring my wee garden back to life is my self prescribed occupational therapy

Oh my god tomorrow? have you much furniture to move/cover up???

yes it's a long old hike....couldn't get an nhs one

That far and it's PRIVATE????????? SHeesh

Gardening and growing things is the best therapy. Rewilding yourself and shoving your bare hands [and feet] in the mud and grass is the best meds for any depressive ailment. Nurturing and tending plants is just amazing and why I spend as much time as I can in the garden in the Spring, Summer and Autumn!! I love my garden although it is mostly wild looking [don't like manicured gardens] and it's a full time labour of love!

No furniture to move and he brings his own cloths to cover everything. I will just have to scrape out all the ash and move away the log basket, fire irons, and the old brass bed warmer etc.

Its so blooming dark here I need to put the lights on! I think the thunder is passing. Tata Thor

Yeah it's a bugger innit??!

I completely agree with you about the garden Twass.
Mine is a little courtyard garden, all pots, so of course 22 months without attention most of it died. The summer before i went into hospital it was amazing (i had accidentally massively overfed with plant food, it was supposedly a one off feed which i thought was a weekly feed my sweetpeas grew so big they grew up the wall and pulled down the washing line with their weight ) and to see it mainly dead and such a mess every time i was at the kitchen sink was a real downer.

I don't know if i mentioned but one of the nurses who looked after me came round the other week and totally cleared all the dead stuff and pruned the alive stuff and cleared loads of pots so i just had to plant new things. It gave me the motivation to try and bring it back to life. I feel like Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden!!

I have a massive Hebe bush which is taller than me and the bees and butterflies loved which was in a terrible state with black spot i read up on it and have carefully pinched out every affected leaf in effort to save it (fingers crossed).

I should have taken a before photograph but i never thought and my lovely nurse one minute was eating cakes and scones and the next minute sorting it all out i didn't have the time!!!

Oh at least it isn't too much disruption for you then.

It's been like dusk all day here yesterday was sort of foggy but it wasn't actual fog more the clouds were so low we were in the rain cloud rather than under it!!

How good of your nurse! If you did post this I missed it.....but she clearly knows the power of green things on the mind. My garden is on a steep slope, it's quite big and has a few borders, grass, trees and bushes, and the three oast houses at the end. Ancient crumbling farm buildings all around - the nail that went through my welly was from a plank that had fallen off the old granary which is right next to the cottage.

Here it is

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zttylt43d4...873_o.jpg?dl=0

I know!!! i was so touched it was her day off too! bless her she's lovely.

WOW it's huge!!! i love the oast houses and is that a humungus buddleia on the left?

It is, and there's a second one at the bottom of the garden. It is big. No wonder I am pooped on lawn mowing day And you see what I mean about the slope! I live on a hill.

Problem with growing veggies is the vast number of wabbits who also live in the garden and eat everything I plant with a few exceptions....I've also seen a weasel in the garden, a hare and of course foxes and bats. In the evenings the calls of many owls can be heard. I get visiting pheasants too

no rogue highland coos looking for love?
i shall have to plant myself next to your buddleia when it's in bloom to do a butterfly shoot!!

Oh i have bats here too i love them!! also owls and a large blue heron
nothing on foot due to the stone walls. god i'm starving i don't know what to have...it's one of those days today where i wish i lived in a city and could get a delivery

I can't get food delivered either but I don't miss that. I just boiled some pasta, chucked in some peas, fried a few chipolatas then chopped them, threw in some cherry tomatoes and the cooked pasta and peas, fried up a bit longer and scoffed. Absolutely lush

Do you have bacon, peas, tomatoes and pasta? Version folks with no chipolatas could do!!

I've had to fend the coos off from my garden a number of times, when they are being driven past the cottage up to the cowsheds and fields beyond. I stand waving a stick in the drive saying NO NO

Awh Twass can't stand up long enough to cook pasta etc today!! That's why i'm fantasizing about delivery.....mmmmmm.....*pictures fish and chips*

My mum used to stand at the fence with the garden hose shooing cows then when it was hot they'd all crowd round the back door so she could hose them down they loved it

I'd better not start watering the cows or the beggars will come in the garden looking for me!

I hope you got some nice noms in the end last night. What if you put a chair in the kitchen so you can rest while you cook? I say this, there's no room in my kitchen for a chair, but hopefully there is in yours

The coos loved the hose my mum thought she was punishing them and i'd watch out the window laughing my head off as they came running from all over to play!!!

awh thanks Twass i do have chairs in my kitchen (sitting is actually more uncomfortable than standing ) i love having a table and chairs in there means you can hang out when you're cooking for people, i had emergency fish fingers!!they were yummy i'd forgotten how much i liked them

i have been cunning and roasted tomatoes and garlic, made them into a nice sauce so just got to chuck some pasta on tonight!!! I'd eaten all my emergency foods when i was poorly the other week normally i have a stash of stuff i can shove in the oven when i'm not well.....need to do some cooking and build stocks up again!!

I hope you'll have some cheeeeeeeeeeeeese on your pasta and yummy sounding sauce What you need is an automatic bed! By which I mean an upright mattress attached to a device whereby it gently lies you down in between cookings and then goes back upright when necessary. A low step at the bottom of the mattress allows you to step on and off. I'm a genius!!! A godsend to all those who can't stand long and are better off horizontal

*runs off to patent office*

yes i've got some lovely melty mature cheddar and my favourite a nice block of fresh parmesan!

i find roasting the tomatoes makes a much more flavoursome sauce, so you get s tasty sauce without having to cook it for hours!

i like your kitchen bed idea i learnt to do so many things horizontal ( i can't knit upright because i learnt how to knit lying down!) cooking is just not onw of the horizontal arts i have mastered....yet

it's cold and wet and miserable here again today....have you got something tasty for dinner?

I threw a chicken quarter in the oven, part nuked a spud and threw that in as well and boiled some broccoli and frozen corn. Scoffed half the chook and got a piece left for cold nibblings Dead easy din dins.

sounds nice i do love chicken!!!!

i saw the weather and you guys were ten degrees hotter than us up north!! you guys were practically tropical!!!

We've to get snow tomorrow, near glasgow !

We've had a glorious few days, no coats needed, lots of folk out in t shirts and shorts, the sun has banged down for hours on end! Tonight it will rain and the temps will drop a few degrees but it was fab while it lasted

I've still lit the fire this evening, especially after the sweep came earlier and it's as clean as a new pin. I polished the hearthstones with rapeseed oil and they are gleaming

bit jealous about the sun it's disappeared since i planted up my pots!!

oh lovely are you feeling all ship shape? i love it when everything's newly cleaned....

it was hailing on me a couple of days ago when i was pruning in the garden!
it's an Arctic Swirl apparently....sounds like a nice dessert

I'm shipshape and Bristol fashion

Arctic Swirl sounds fantastic....I am thinking chocolate cake surrounding ice cream with raspberry jam..........

*throws hat (well, woolly cap) in door of thread*
Sorry had to leave last night, new arrival. Then today was actually DRY so could get some washing out.
Need to catch up, but what beautiful photos of your gardens. I don't have one, surrounded by green but everything I ever planted was eaten by lambs or cattle. (Usually not our own!). Remember a few weeks ago I went looking for a fjord? Must look for pic *pats pockets*
Hope everyone ok

Evening tk! Thank you for your comments re my garden. I love it!!

Looks like some grim weather coming in for us all now Still, at least the washing is done!

hello!! you must be knackered, are the babies all doing well? you still have allthe wildflowers on the verges though! lovely stuff!

ooooooooooo fjords !!!

Evening P, your garden is very like my sister's, until her now ex-husband forced a house sale, about the time your photo was taken. Thankfully she has been able to regroup, and is recreating something lovely (bit difficult in a 1950's house) but it's all good.

Hmm I see Twass doesn't know about our trolley/mattress!

awh it's sad when you have nurtured something but the silver lining is she gets to create something new!!

my garden looks very different now but it's given the chance to try things i didn't have room for like Bleeding Hearts had run out of room so now ive got pots to fill i can give them a go!!!

The coos ate my mum's clematis she was NOT happy

She'll find out at the patent office