Tiny Pink Flowers and Cone Wool

For the last two days it has really felt like we have entered a new season. The sun has been warm on my back, the huge bumble bees are out and about and today I saw my first butterfly. Weeding in our own garden has been a pleasure.

 I have been sorting all my plants and trying to make more space in the greenhouses. The sweetpeas and the tomatoes are all coming up in a warm propagator.

In the garden we are still working on the entrance area. I start each session there, not really knowing in which direction we are going, but we end up with it looking pretty good, though by no means finished. 

 

 I even managed to plant a huge foxglove and a fern, both relocations. Best of all everything is recycled.

At home I am using up a lot of cone wool. I`ve mainly been making mittens and pompoms.

The pompom toys have an Easter theme.

I also tried some bead bunnies.

Many years ago my dear sister Lee gave me some beautiful, tiny artificial flowers. I have kept them and kept them as they gained more sentimental significance after she died.

When I made these little bunnies I felt the project was special enough to use them at last. Here is a closer picture. They are the tiny pink flowers at the neck and between the ears. I won`t be selling these bunnies.

 

My new dahlias came on Saturday. They took quite a long time from ordering, the first lot having been "lost"  ..... and they had to be replaced. I have unpacked them all and labelled up.

Some of the names are a bit of a mouthful and take a lot of time when labelling.

Hootenanny Swan Island

Sturm Sweet Nicole

Ludwig Helfert

Striped Nagano

Jowey Chantel

As I unwrap them, I am imagining the displays they will make and wondering where they will all go!!!

Happy days.