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Bluebells, Colourful foliage, Flowering shrubs, Garden flowers, Holly flowers, My garden retreat, Nature, Patchwork garden colours, Rhododendrons, Wild flowers, Wild poppies, Workspace with a beautiful view

Okay, this probably only applies if you live in the UK, and are over a certain age (40 ish)- but, does any one remember, if you fit the above criteria, The Smash makes Mash adverts??? (please excuse my washing line prop bottom right – a roofing lath from my devoted dearest – he’s so generous with his thoughtful gifts – all splinters have now been removed, and over time gathered in my hands!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SAbJjktk7E
I took a wander down to the bottom of our back garden this evening with a mind of taking some pictures of how lovely the colours of the foliage and flowers look, when I got back inside and saw this shot on the computer screen, the Variegated Privet (the lime green plant in the centre) just reminded me of one of those little aliens!!! LOL Planted some 25 years ago, to fill a gap, it’s certainly done that…and then some!… it has now also taken on a whole new look π Normally Dearest keeps it in check, though hidden behind, in the slit gap, is a nesting box, housing a new family of Blue Tits, so pruning will have to wait another week or so! Anyways, back to the post….. I have always thought that our garden is a mismatch, but beautiful patchwork of plants, this is the view I look out over every day from my conservatory workspace and May is one of the nicest months to see. The deciduous plants have now gotten almost all their new leaves, the larger shrubs, rhododendrons and Holly are starting to come into flower and the smell from the Lilac tree is quite overpowering on this still calm evening – beautiful!! π

Tiptoeing to the side a bit… a bit more of a promising colourful corner. In the background under the Holly tree, is my lovingly built garden Stonehenge, not that you can see much of it at this time of year, when we let it go Nature’s way – Wild and FreeΒ – to do as it pleases, usually it becomes laden with wild poppies and ferns – The little standing stones are for some interest in the winter months! Whilst the Japanese flowering cherry, on the left, has gone through its best, and is getting new foliage, in the foreground a beautiful pink Aquilegia is growing through our little twisted Hazel, with the first of its blooms opening today!
Your garden is blooming, blossoming and beautiful! :@)
I think it would make a perfect snuffling ground for little piggies :@) :@) :@) to play hide and seek in ! π
I know! And for the Blublet is would be a paradise world to explore and play in. They’re so small the garden would seem like a whole forest to them π (need a Blublet smily face… But i guess they have s snout so :@) still works π )
How nice would it be to have your little creations :@ :@) :@) roaming around at the bottom of my garden ;-)???! It really would be enchanted then π !
Pretty blooms. As for the privet I suspect it’s no coincidence. The aliens have probably got bored with crop circles and have moved onto topiary π
You could well be right!… moving into the new millennium, I bet they thought they’d try something different, perhaps we should be on the lookout for more of their hidden work !!! π
I think so. Maybe you should ring Paranormal Witness – I’m sure they’ll want to make a program about you π
LOL…Once they meet me they might think I am more paranormal than the foliage…I’d better not take the risk ;-D !!
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What a lovely garden you have! Thanks for the tour. π
Thank you so much Jackie, though a little untidy at the moment, it is very colourful still π
Whatever you do don’t let Andy trim it! π
He certainly won’t do it without my supervision this year, that’s for sure,!!! My red Japanese Maple is 3/4 the way recovered after its short back, top and sides last year – thank goodness π
It’s good to know the garden is safe under your watch. π
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Now I can see why you are soooo inspired with your patchwork, nature sure is putting on a show for you to keep on track with your recent totes π
She certainly is, added to now by the Rhododendrons being in full flower too π Since my last post, I have turned my space completely around, cleaned every last inch, and no fabric is in sight (well not if you don’t peak in the hundred or so boxes) cracking on today, I found myself, quite literally, up to the elbows in oil paint…funny when you get out of something for a while, you tend to forget where you place your equipment when in complete concentration ( I tend to cut 8” squares out of grease proof paper to set my oil paints out, rather than have to clean my palette) completely lost in the moment I moved in for some close work at the table easel and discovered I had both arms planted firmly on two different squares LOL…sad thing is, the abstract body art masterpieces would probably be worth more than the one on my easel !!!! ;-/