It’s Monday and I’m sitting here, contemplating! This is where my other half and I tend to sit for our morning and/ or afternoon drink. It’s shady under the tree fern and much appreciated right now!
However, my morning began with a real treat: A wonderful look around the garden of our daughter and her husband. When they bought the house, in 2021, the garden was more or less a blank canvas. It’s a good size. Our son in law, Ben, has spent the last four years creating a wonderful, wildlife haven…and by jove it is stunning! My quick snaps don’t do it justice but I came away feeling so inspired and very impressed!
He’s built two wildlife ponds which have very soon become a haven for frogs, toads and newts…and not to mention dragonflies, damselflies and a host of all sorts of pollinators.
I share many plants with him but mostly wild flower plants and it was good to see how so many of those have progressed…
There’s nothing like a wander around a lovely garden and I’m very lucky to gain inspiration from both Ben and Nich…who absolutely love their gardening! I came home feeling very excited about my own garden!
I’m especially pleased with these, Hydrangeas, planted three years ago; they are beginning to make their presence felt.
And my first Mesembryanthemum has opened. I grew these from seed, after many years, and I can’t wait to see the rest of them…hopefully, there will be a good range of colours! Isn’t this lovely?
On Friday, we visited a local garden centre to look at garden furniture, with a view to buying something with a bit more comfort, for our patio. We did find a table and two chairs (after much sitting on various pieces to test for that comfort!) And even though I would’ve liked four chairs, they didn’t do extra chairs for this particular set. So we agreed that we would look for two more similar chairs, at a later date. The table and two chairs are being delivered on Wednesday, which is just as well as on Friday evening I put the old table and chairs on Marketplace and by Saturday lunchtime, it was gone…sold to a good home!
However…back to our garden centre visit…as there’s more! 😁
On entering the garden centre, there is a walkway where they display lovely plants, and this time it was full of roses…and they were gorgeous! And I mean gorgeous. That’s Gorgeous with a capital G! One of these, in particular, caught my eye: ‘Lots of Kisses’. They had quite a few of these roses. And I didn’t buy one. And over the weekend, I regretted it! 😱
Anyway, today, when I arrived home from having coffee with my daughter , I said to Mr Snippets, ‘ If I can find a pot big enough, please could we go back and buy ‘Lots of Kisses’? Having had his approval…kind of…I went to the back of the garden, where I knew I had very two large pots used for storing my smaller pots. I tipped out the smaller pots, organised them into sizes and then stacked them neatly on the shelves of my potting table; it took me a while! I was happy and started off back down the garden to tell Mr Snippets that he was in luck! 😂🤣😂🤣
But wait! And here comes the hilarious part! And I’m still laughing now…
I’m walking down the garden, slowly, as I always like to take in what’s going on, I look to my right to the middle patio, which is a small, stone patio, rather charming…it is one of my favourite parts of the garden…
And I look…and then I do a double take…because it doesn’t look like this any more! Oh no! There is something there that I didn’t put there…can you guess what it is, yet?
It is…
Can you believe that? And it was in a brand new pot!
Well, what more can I say? Apart from ..l was laughing and crying at the same time! Mr S had nipped back to the garden centre whilst I was busy having coffee with Helen.
And…apparently, it was the last one they had…they must’ve sold all but one, over the weekend! 😱😁🥀
