A cuppa with a couple of riders after their ride....a little shopping...and then rain if course..I'd left he clean clothes out on the line!!
A picnic lunch in the car by the seaside..and no view, thanks to the rain.
Then garden centre time...
The first, big chain...a couple of plants..but nothing to write home about...a little bedraggled...
The second, a local family business...with quality plants...say no more!
These were the ones who kept one employee on during covid lockdown to care for the plants in stock.....
Now the new beds just need to settle.
Plants need to be potted on or hardened off and planted out.....
On the way home I called past our local feed store to buy wild bird seed for the feeders...I was already a little friendly with the woman there....her husband has now terminal oesophageal cancer...having backed off a large op a while ago when it could have worked....she needed to talk....we are firmer friends now...
And at home my neighbour's daughter needed a lawnmower...so I gave her the petrol mower..on the condition that if my grass got too long to cut with my wee handraulic mower, they would cut it!!
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...playing catch up in the garden can be difficult.
You are keeping busy. Sounds a good deal with your neighbour's daughter.
What a huge gift you can be to the woman. You will understand in a way that others will not, and this is a huge comfort.
Moving solidly along, good friends. Even scored a lawn mowing in a crisis.
Good to have that talk with the woman who's husband is dealing with cancer. Strange bedfellows...I talked with a woman at the studio today about avoiding COVID and heart attacks. We had both in common, though her husbands heart attack was more recent than mine, and he had much faster turn around of medical care (I think by being a man). Great deal on lawn mowing!
I don't use my mower anymore. I have used two lawns for a potted plant nursery and the other grass areas I strim every couple of weeks. I like your barter deal agreement for your lawnmower.
It sounds like your garden is providing you with solace. There is always plenty to do in any garden. Glad you found some quality plants.
I finally got my runner and French beans in this week - having busted a gut getting a bag of compost and ditto FYM down to the bottom triangle to top up the raised bed containers. By the scenic route as the alternative are two steep sets of steps! Someone wasn't thinking when they did those . . .
I succumbed to a beautiful Azalea yesterday - orange no less. Not usually my choice of colour either.
A productive day with friendly conversations...and plants!
I’d happily give someone my mower if they mowed my lawn occasionally
As I have lots of lawn I don’t think anyone would take the offer
Too bad the rain ruined the view for you
But it is perfect for the garden
Your observation re the two garden centres reflects mine - we live just along the road from both a major chain centre, and a smaller family run centre. The quality of plants in the family business is so much better, and also frequently no more expensive.
Interestingly, the couple running this centre used to be our village shopkeepers and post mistress when we first moved here, then when a run-down garden centre just along the road came vacant they jumped at the chance and haven't looked back. Their son is now also on the team, so hopefully will be going strong for a while to come.
Puttering about in garden centers and gardens, my kind of day. That poor lady though, you know what her journey will be. I know she appreciated talking with you.
Can you explain a bit more about what that first picture is? Is that where you planted your plants?
The two square things are raised beds made of pallet surrounds...I hope to get plants in one tomorrow
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