Hello Friends!
Thank you, and a
heartfelt welcome, to several new followers who have found their way here in
the last few days. I hope you enjoy my ramblings and photography, and I love it
when you join in and leave a comment to say “hello!”
Before I share what’s
happening in the garden, you may recall I mentioned that my favourite author, illustrator,
and Happy Person, Susan Branch, has so brilliantly and thoughtfully arranged
for her beautiful bone china mugs to be made available here in the UK for all
her UK followers. Well, it has since happened,
and you can buy them from Nursery Thyme in Devizes {in person or online} and
guess what? My Autumn mug arrived in today’s post! I could not be happier with
it, it is so perfectly Autumn, and just a darling mug, both in pattern, shape,
and to hold ~ as well as to treasure! Do
you see the attention to detail by continuing the pattern down the handle? Can you hear my squeals of utter delight? Although my birthday is not for a few more months, this is my very special birthday gift to me ~~~
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| Perfect companions! |
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| Always counting our blessings |
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| attention to detail! |
I’ll take a moment to gather myself before moving on!
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Summer rain, sweet,
soft, gentle summer rain has fallen for days across the garden, and sometimes
it has been not so soft, sliding sideways like needles in horizontal torrents
with a rare summer gale blustering in from the Atlantic Ocean. There’s not much to be done when the weather
misbehaves other than hunker down inside and wait for the gales to blow over and make yourself comfy and cosy indoors with a big pile of books and plenty of hot tea and cakes ~~~
Once the winds and
rains have passed, it is time to nip out quickly between the showers with my
camera to see what is happening. Some of you know me well enough by now to know
that rain on plants is one of my favourite subjects, so this morning was
another such excursion ~~~
There was a little
damage, my poor Verbena Bonariensis were lying down and having a rest across
the path as their whippy stems failed to keep up with the lashing winds, but
they are now snugly tied back up using the hydrangeas as support. The
Alchemilla Mollis is also flat, but once the sun comes out and dries it, it
will perk up and be resplendent as ever. It is one of my favourite plants: it
fills gaps in borders well; is very tolerant of both lack of care and too much
fussing; its acid yellow makes everything around it come alive with colour; and
it makes a pretty addition to any small arrangement of flowers. A most appreciated
plant indeed.
Everything looks
pristine, freshly showered and still sprinkled with raindrops, and yes, some
raindrops on roses, but no kittens, not today, I think the rain has driven them
away!
The Musk Mallow is looking
very pretty indeed as it wraps around my ‘corgi’ which was a gift from a corgi
loving friend. The Monkshood {which is
not doing so well this year} is one of my favourite colour schemes as it has a
Bindweed {Morning Glory} twined up its spike, and I just love the striking
contrast of purple, green and white in combination.
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The succulents, despite the rain and cloud cover seem to be preparing a few more blooms in the cluster ~ I am looking forward to this!
And in a rare moment of sunshine, a beautiful butterfly settles on a raspberry leaf to warm its wings while opportunity strikes ~~~
Until next time ~~~
~~~Deborah xoxo
