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Green faience tiles, Uppingham. The world needs more faience 💚

Willow flowers backed with the sun setting behind some trees

Sunset sky with goat willow flowers & a hint of Saharan dust

For #RoseWednesday 🌹a couple of Summer Damask roses: the Painted Damask, Léda (before 1837) & Pink Léda. They are sports of each other but it is not clear which one came first. Such gorgeous, fragrant blooms. #Roses 🌱

Not long now.... 🌱

I see petrol & gas prices are rocketing & no doubt food, feed etc will follow. Best be prepared where I can. Thank goodness I have a well-stocked pantry & plenty of seeds 🌱

I am going to fill some jerry cans tomorrow to tide me over for a while too

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus

Sunset sky

It's trying to rain so I went & bought some flower seeds to dream of warmer days 🐝🐞🪲💐☀️🌱

beauty is all around us

Sunset sky

YouTube video by Sow Chatty S2:E4 - 5 AMAZING Crops to Sow & Grow Together | 2026 Sow-A-Long

It's the Sow Chatty sow along tonight & I have my celeriac seeds at the ready...
#GrowYourOwn 🌱
youtu.be/fmTXeZjqh8E?...

Chiffchaff singing its creaky door song in the garden. The first one I have heard this year. Under the trees pretty Narcissus bulbicodium 'White Petticoat' has opened; tiny creamy trumpets lying on the grass awaiting bees. A gloomy start today but we were promised sunshine. ☀️

win-win

Sunset sky. Swirly pink clouds over grazing sheep. #SkySheep

Countess cherry plum. Always the first to flower 🌱

Wet again. I have a feeling global events will shortly hike petrol prices so I have come to the cheapest garage around here & filled the tank (something I never do).

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Hellebores in the sunshine. I even managed to do a few things in the garden (e.g. start laying a path with Victorian hand made bricks salvaged from a skip).

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Pippin enjoying the fiery sunset sky

Old 1lb tobacco tins are ace (& I have never smoked)

they will 😊

I will pot them on like a normal tomato as they grow. They stay as small bushes so end up in medium sized pots. I am not good with sizes but I used pots that young roses came in last year

no. They germinate well if you give them heat like a chilli. The plants grow well & get quite large (3ft by 3ft) so you don't need many. Delicious though

I keep my vegetable seeds in old tins. This tin is for seeds to sow this month. It is large enough for most seed packets & has air holes for ventilation. Today I am sowing micro dwarf tomatoes to sit in pots on the windowsills & give some early fruits that taste of summer 🍅🌱

Much milder day but still very muddy. I stood ankle deep listening to the gentle trilling of a Redwing in one of the fruit trees. Such a lovely song 🎶

yes.... they do what they want & live in the trees. I love them dearly 🦚

Timperley Early rhubarb reaching for the sun (aren't we all?). Another sign that spring warmth is not far off. 🌱

Three peacocks on a gloomy grey day

Another grey day though my barometer suggests better weather on the way (the forecast says light rain). As the early spring days lengthen my first chilli, pepper & aubergine seeds have germinated & I shall be sowing onions, celery & celeriac this weekend.🌱