Quiltingorchardist

Seeing Spring bulbs flourishing in her Edinburgh garden on Pam's blog I knew I had to get more bulbs planted here. I brought pots of  ...

I finished all these quilted alphabet letters. All I' m doing for now anyway. 36 here.  I have the upper case and lower case letter...

Over the last weekend some new activities happened here. As we grew far more sweetcorn than we could eat when it was at its succulent best, ...

Last evening I walked down to the jetty at sunset to see how high the tide was in.  Touching the boards on the jetty.  There was ...

All the plants and bulbs I bought were in the ground by late yesterday. As always I maybe could have fitted in a couple more punnets of bl...

The only thing written on the calendar for this weekend was Friday evening dinner at friend's place. 9 of us ate, drank and were very ta...

Sometimes something very simple can be a pleasure. There's not much to this. A terracotta pot, some good potting mix and some seed. ...

Yesterday was the right temperature for a picnic. ( not too hot or too windy ) Our Patchwork and Quilting group met at Yatton Park (  off ...

When we grow a lot of produce quite a lot of time has to be spent picking and processing/ eating it.  The big pot is plum sauce . The sm...

This week things are quiet again at our place. The Grandsons and their parents had to return to the big smoke ( for work ) at the weekend. A...

In the subdivision / Community where we now live we have a lovely NZ Christmas tree  on a small round about which is flowering at just the ...

Some of the things I have planted in the new garden are rewarding us with bright displays. This dahlia Holly Houston being the biggest sho...