Celebrating sinks! 😁

 

The conversation went something like this:

“ We are having our kitchen renovated. We have a double, Belfast sink that we need to get rid of so would you like it?’

Anyone who knows me well, would know that was what they call a ‘no brainer’! I needed no time to ‘sink’ about that! 😆

And so the said sink was transported from a kitchen somewhere in Gloucestershire, to a South Devon garden. 

And very heavy it was too! So much so, that I didn’t faff around, saying to my other half, ‘Let’s try it here..NO…let’s try it here..or how about here?’ 

I went into the garden before it arrived and decided that it would be best to place it on the patio, rather than haul it up the steps and then have problems levelling it.

And then came the fun! 

I’m a lover of Alpines and whilst I was having a cuppa and browsing online, I came across a very nice site called ‘Ice Alpines’. 

This one was new to me. I do tend to have my favourites, along with the nurseries local to me but I thought I’d give this one a try…and they were offering collections of 8 or 10 at a very reasonable price, too…

 

Ice Alpines can be found here.

In particular, I looked at the ‘Easy Alpine’ collection

The service was superb! Within no time at all, my plants were with me. They were well packed…and the package even included a free plant!

My pack included these:

                                                       Erigeron Four Winds

Ajuga reptans Burgundy Gold

Veronica Prostrata

Chaenorhinum  origaniganifolium ‘Blue Dream’

Polygonum vaccinifolium

Helianthemum Ben Vane

Campanula Mrs Resholt

Aster natalensis

Saxifrage Winifred Bevington

Erigeron Four Winds

Geranium Sanguinium ‘Shepherd’s Warning’

Erigeron karvinskianus

All that I need to do now… is get planting!

What with all of the vintage touches that are creeping into my garden, I can certainly say that it has everything AND the kitchen sink! I now have five,vintage sinks in my garden! Just don’t remind my other half of that! 😂

But…before I finish, do you remember the small sink that I spotted in the summer, the sink that was sitting in a nursery not far away from where I live?  Well…it still sits in that nursery not far away…and it’s still NOT FOR SALE!😫

I guess that’s what I’ll be searching for, next! 😆