Happy Bank Holiday Weekend - The State of the Garden
I'm up, showered and dressed in clean clothes, it's fantastic.
I made myself a list of things I could go and do a while back, but actually I'll be writing entirely unpublishable stories because that's what I do, because it's fun and absorbing. There's a real freedom in writing something you know for certain will never see the light of day, that is just for you and you only. All the terrible plot ideas can come out for your Mary Sue/Gary Stu to enjoy.
The magpies are loudly creating about something, probably a cat. The garden is full of bramble that is feeding a whole lot of aphids that will, in turn, feed the ladybirds people actually want to have around. The fuschia looks distinctly wintery. The jasmine is sprouting. The garden feels a few weeks behind on where it should be.
Ground elder is edible and, if you like parsley, delicious, and it smells wonderful when you pick it and cut it. Nothing clears out a prolific weed quite as rapidly as wanting it around to use as a vegetable. Like nettles, it's good up until it starts getting ready to flower. It is also called goutweed because it used to be used as a poultice for gout, probably not very effectively.
Our peony is enormous and the flowers will be enormous too. It is definitely not behind. There are twelve buds, each the size of a golf ball or thereabouts. It is the current, flourishing star of the bed that the fuschia will later, in its thuggish way, entirely overgrow. The fuschia is very friendly from July onwards, and wants to sit next to us, be among us, visit new places... Bees and hoverflies absolutely adore it, so by then it's very loud too, and it flowers right through November as of late.
Just now the bees are eating a variety of woodland flowers, the rosemary that is almost entirely blue just now, and a whole lot, a huge amount, of Herb Robert, a wild geranium species with little pink flowers and intricate leaves that can be reddish at the base. A very pretty, very prolific plant that is weeded by getting under the crown of leaves to the one very central root and lifting out, clearing quite a wide area with one tug. The dandelions out in the front lawn have already been and gone. This entry was originally posted at https://supermouse.dreamwidth.org/85799.html. There are
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I made myself a list of things I could go and do a while back, but actually I'll be writing entirely unpublishable stories because that's what I do, because it's fun and absorbing. There's a real freedom in writing something you know for certain will never see the light of day, that is just for you and you only. All the terrible plot ideas can come out for your Mary Sue/Gary Stu to enjoy.
The magpies are loudly creating about something, probably a cat. The garden is full of bramble that is feeding a whole lot of aphids that will, in turn, feed the ladybirds people actually want to have around. The fuschia looks distinctly wintery. The jasmine is sprouting. The garden feels a few weeks behind on where it should be.
Ground elder is edible and, if you like parsley, delicious, and it smells wonderful when you pick it and cut it. Nothing clears out a prolific weed quite as rapidly as wanting it around to use as a vegetable. Like nettles, it's good up until it starts getting ready to flower. It is also called goutweed because it used to be used as a poultice for gout, probably not very effectively.
Our peony is enormous and the flowers will be enormous too. It is definitely not behind. There are twelve buds, each the size of a golf ball or thereabouts. It is the current, flourishing star of the bed that the fuschia will later, in its thuggish way, entirely overgrow. The fuschia is very friendly from July onwards, and wants to sit next to us, be among us, visit new places... Bees and hoverflies absolutely adore it, so by then it's very loud too, and it flowers right through November as of late.
Just now the bees are eating a variety of woodland flowers, the rosemary that is almost entirely blue just now, and a whole lot, a huge amount, of Herb Robert, a wild geranium species with little pink flowers and intricate leaves that can be reddish at the base. A very pretty, very prolific plant that is weeded by getting under the crown of leaves to the one very central root and lifting out, clearing quite a wide area with one tug. The dandelions out in the front lawn have already been and gone. This entry was originally posted at https://supermouse.dreamwidth.org/85799.html. There are
comments on the original post. If you have no DW account, you may comment on DW using username.livejournal.com as your open ID.