Well today dawned sunny - which was wonderful after the last couple of days which have been awful - horrendous winds and lots of rain. Quite a few of my pots are water-logged, so that meant moving them onto stones to let them drain. I've cut back a few limbs of my lilac trees because the wind had bent them over and they were blocking the path past the shed and to the garden. I hadn't realised how weak my hands were cos it took ages and lots of cursing, puffing etc to even get one branch cut off. I've got a lopper which means it doesn't take so much effort, but I'd already started so I had to finish it off.

I pulled more 'goosegrass' out of the hedge growing around the baywindow and it honestly looks as if it was all from one plant, because it all seemed to come from one place - if that's true - then it'll be easier to get rid of the rest of them and boy are there loads of them - all around the driveway.

Still there are lots of aqualegia sprouting all over the place - some white, purple, pink and blue ones........

Blue/purple aqualegia

White aqualegia

White aqualegia

Sun through the petals

Then I noticed that there are lots of Icelandic/Californian poppies coming out, and apart from the yellow ones, there are also orange ones......

Orange poppy

I've got a little plant with variagated leaves which I thought would be flowerless - but lo and behold it's got tiny blue flowers - great.....

Tiny blue flowers

Then I saw spit coming down from the base of the seed pod, it was quite a sight......

Spit on the bottom of a poppy seed pod

I thought I'd sit on the bench for a while in the sun and Pippin decided to join me.....



Oh well I'm off to get supper. I hope you all have had a good day today.