Off to my meagre garden. Gardens can gives pleasure. Big stress reliever and a refuge. Spring 2021.
These are photos that I took, in our garden, today.
After a long winter months with the wet, winds and snow. My most awaiting time of the year is here. From the previous year, my collected garden waste, that’s not fit for my small compost heap is now ready to be burnt and the ashes will be feed into the garden. I placed all the dried garden waste into my repurposed fire pit, it’s an old washing machine drum that my neighbour had help me to dismantle it from it’s body. I was rather pleased with it because it’s now become very handy for burning small amount of garden waste. And the ashes will goes to some alkaline loving plants. I don’t really tested the soil pH balance. I just apply small amount of ashes to the plants base and mulch them. Before lighting the fire pit, I made sure that there is not a slight of breeze, a total calmness ( do not play with fire). I have the water hose pipe ready just in case of any accident happen health and safety is important. I love watching the dancing of the fire, it’s so therapeutic,
Below is a multipurpose fire pit that I used to cooked my barbecue too. Spring into action!
Yucca plant 2021
Though it’s a nice indoor/outdoor plant, extra care must be taken, beacause it has a rough edges on the leaves and has a almost needle point at the tip of it, hence it’s name (Spanish Sword).
Above are my border plants, in the 3rd week of May.
June 2021 Summer Time. Cottage garden collections.
As you could see these are my beloved activities, it’s helps me become more active, thus also help to divert my negative energy into good use. Not all of us are fortunate enough to have small home garden to tend, but sometimes a plants pots are good enough to use if space is an issue and it is easy to manage too for those who don’t have access to small garden that otherwise wanted to grow some plants.
While growing up in Island of Leyte, our place was along the shore so space was scarce. I had a collection of Begonvillia plants in a rubber pots . I paid 5 peso each pot, 5 peso was the cost of a lollipop candy then. I had a few pots and my mother was not please that I spent money on useless stuff, because we were poor my mother think it was a waste of money. Begonvilla plant flowers all year round, it’s an acid loving plants, and love warm weather, there was reddish pink and purple blue colour it was pleasant to look at and brightened our very deprived area. Yet my mother who did opposed to my spending (poor soul) help to tend my flower pots collection. RIP Nanay (mother). Obviously climate in UK and Philippines are different so no Begonvillia in my small cottage garden here in the Northeast of England, though it does thrive in the Southern part of U.K. because I spoted it on my recent holiday with my mate Jo.
I enjoy watching the fruits of my labour. The roses are in full bloom this time of the year, the passers by also admire them.
Till the next cycle of plants life.
This was from a tiny snip I took along the children park many years ago. I just planted it in corner next to my existing roses and forgot all about it. Now it’s in full bloom.
So that’s the story of this wild rose.
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