The Colourful Everyday: Strawberries and caterpillars and peduncles, oh my! 🍓🐛🌸

Hello again and welcome to a very garden-filled update 🌼 it's only been 2 weeks since I last posted but somehow I've amassed lots more photos to share!

My sister took this polaroid of us when we were in Falmouth, I then tucked it into my purse for safekeeping and forgot about it! Then we have this wildflower patch in a garden near our house which I admire as I drive past most days, I like the flag featuring in the background as a little reminder of all the Jubilee celebrations that seem so long ago now already.

A recent sourdough loaf with some experimental scoring (Ed said it looked like a football ⚽):

These following photos were all taken on a drizzly day in the garden, it seemed funny looking at them when I started writing this post a week later as it was nearly 30 degrees outside and the plants would've really appreciated some rain!

Alpine strawberries and my old boots sprouting nasturtiums:

Hypericum and a glistening cobweb (I recently discovered the spider that made it is very big):

Juniper and the donkey, plus some baby blueberries:

Raindrops and more strawberries (hanging from the scaffolding!):

Juniper surveying the border:

After the slugs wreaked havoc last year we decided we'd go all out to destroy them this year, but then we got worried about cats eating slug pellets so we didn't bother and now we've just settled on the laid back approach of doing nothing 😆 The hostas aren't too happy about that but most other things seem to be surviving, at least we've got some flowers (aquilegia sown by my mum last year, plus one of the hydrangeas we rehomed from my grandparents):

On a sunny day off last week (after a hearty pancake breakfast 😋) Ed and I decided to visit Plant World for the first time...

Lots of unusual plants to see and some lovely views...

Spot the monkey in the monkey puzzle tree 🐒

The next day Ed messaged me whilst we were at work to suggest a spontaneous BBQ which I thought was a very good idea!

Juniper even joined in and tried a little bit of sausage, usually she doesn't show any interest in our food so they must have been particularly good 😋 (yes you can see correctly, the scaffolding is still here!)

Our rambling dog rose has really taken off since we planted it in 2020, with soft pink flowers along the garden fence:

The nasturtium patch is loving life as well:

Some nice purples too from borage and lavender:

We spent a very hot morning in the garden on Tuesday, doing some much needed weeding and planting out courgettes, a cucumber and the rest of our tomatoes 🍅

We've just got chillies left to plant out now when they're a bit bigger and stronger!

Logging on for zoom housegroup, and a nice airy sourdough loaf:

Exciting news! The 10 (maybe 11?) peduncles on my hoya are growing away...

...and the first few have now started to open! They're so pretty, each one a slightly different shade, from almost white to dark pink 😍 Last year was the first time it flowered and there were 3 blooms in total, I can't believe there are so many this year!

An attractive 35 week bump photo by Ed, and a peek at my latest socks! After I finished all those baby items my hands were feeling a bit restless to start something new, so another pair of socks for myself was in order 😄 I bought this green wool ages ago as it's my favourite colour but didn't get round to using it until now. I'm not in any rush to finish this project so I imagine it will last me up until the baby comes, sock knitting might be a good focus to get me through early labour haha. The countdown is on now!

Last week I made a pie! With chicken, ham, and cabbage, it was very tasty and I had fun decorating it:

Tiny alpine strawberries, and a sweet little poppy which appeared from nowhere by our garden fence:

The nasturtium patch is now inhabited by many hungry caterpillars but we are just embracing it as it means they aren't on our veg 😆 plus some more strawberries from the garden on my breakfast (I've become a bran flakes fan):