Hello again! I am kicking off this post with my AMAZING night sky petunia ✨✨ because I'm a little bit in love. I tried to grow one of these last year but my small seedling plant got knocked over in the wind and sadly didn't survive, I made up for it this year by buying a bigger pot with some beautiful blooms already and she is thriving. I'm going to pot her up into some sort of arrangement but for now she is chilling out hanging on the washing line away from the evil slugs!
Here's Juniper being a little poser, helping me make up the bed for when my sister came to stay a few weeks ago. Our first overnight guest! We had a Eurovision party via zoom with some friends which was very fun.
Rainbow worm doodles at work:
A top-notch pjs/socks/crocs combo 😍 and the inspiration drawing for a sea themed mural that Ed and I have been working on for my little brother's bedroom:
I'll share more about the mural when the whole room is finished but for now here is a little taster:
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Zingy green leaves against a bright blue sky when I went for a run:
Juni is loving spending lots of time in the garden now that the weather is warm, as you can see she likes to retreat to a shady spot just like me 😄 She has become quite a successful insect hunter and manages to catch and eat a variety of flying and crawling creatures, including a lovely damselfly that Ed and I were admiring, much to our shock and horror.
A recent sourdough loaf:
A sleepy Juniper that let me trim all of her claws in one sitting! It was a proud moment for me.
Cute little pansies growing on the pavement outside my mum's house, and a great big june beetle spotted on our sweet peas!
Surprise! I cut my hair short again...by accident this time! I was just planning to do a trim and tried to incorporate some layers but that was a big mistake 😂 I tried to even everything out and suddenly my hair was short lol. I was full of regret during the whole process but it turned out fine in the end (Ed had to help me do the back!). C'est la vie, at least I don't have split ends anymore.
Ed was planting out the leeks in our raised bed and found some buried treasure! A little plastic army man:
When we moved to this house there were a couple of unidentified plants on the front lawn, they weren't much to look at and we wanted to start from scratch so we dug them up. This one had some tubers underground which we thought we'd gotten rid of.......but after our neighbour told us that it was a peony we were glad when it popped up again this year! We only had one flower but it was a beauty nonetheless:
Starting the morning with a clothes wash and then hanging it out in the sunshine is one of my favourite things to do on a day off! I find it soo satisfying:
One of the hostas in our shady corner, and a strange sight of poppies growing out of the pavement when I was out running (in the rain) recently:
Our viburnum which looks like confetti, featuring my new sandals:
A snail update:
This happy yellow pansy has a little success story behind it! I picked up a broken off stem from the floor by my till at work, I didn't know for sure what the plant was but it looked healthy enough to try and root so I saved it and brought it home with me. I stuck it in some perlite in the propagator and soon enough it was producing flowers! We snipped off the first couple of flowers so it could focus on growing roots and now it's doing just fine outside 😄 (it's also hanging on the washing line away from slugs!).
Ed's brother and his wife came for a visit with their dog Ralph, here he is looking out over Dartmoor:
Some of our purple tansies in a vase, and a golden hour glimpse at the mural:
We went for a walk a few days ago and saw some cows:
A wildflower bouquet from said walk, and myself as a garden statue (I'm tempted to buy it!):
We made two loaves of bread this week! Featuring Juniper and a vase of flowers from my grandparents' garden:
Our mini wildflower meadow is really taking off now, these poppies have all started opening in the last few days and they add so much colour to the garden! 🐝 the bees are loving it too.
And finally, I picked the first couple of strawberries from our hanging basket this morning! They smell really good but I haven't tried them yet because I was waiting for Ed to get back from work for a ceremonial first produce tasting of 2021 🍓😋🌾
Thanks for reading again! Ed and I are going on holiday soon (a staycation?), which I'm looking forward to but I'm also a bit worried about how much I'll miss Juniper 😂
P.S. I just realised I haven't taken any photos of my current sock knitting project, you'll have to wait and see!
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