Easter Greetings

 A very happy Easter to everyone reading this blog.

This chocolate is for our big Easter egg hunt on Friday.

Last night we had some very welcome rain and I am delighted with the difference it makes to the whole garden. This usually means there will be no frost so I have left a few trays of bedding uncovered to take advantage of the showers. |

Cosmos, sweetpeas, calendula, cornflowers, ageratum.

I have begun to plant out my bedding including sweetpeas. The latter are protected with fleece for a while yet.

Cornflowers, calendula, statice, gypsophila are in. All fairly hardy.

Two days ago I watered the tomatoes with a comfrey mix. They changed overnight,

Alongside them are the courgettes which are well away.

 

 

I repotted the aubergines and peppers because they had come to a standstill. At this point in the proceedings you have to ask yourself if all the goodness from the purchased multi-purpose compost has run out and that is why I think a bit of weak comfrey mix will give them all a boost.

Around our own garden the apple blossom has just opened.

 

Honesty flowers have seemingly appeared overnight.

The pansies are having a second coming after a bit of trimming and a feed.

 

On Saturday we looked after my nephews for part of the day and they did jobs for pocket money. One of the jobs was to collect camellia flowers. And there are plenty of those.

 

 

They also swept up magnolia petals, washed the greenhouses and sprayed with white shading. They both worked very hard.

 It gets pretty hot inside the greenhouses already.

This morning as well as catching up with housework, I managed to complete the latest batch of patchwork shoulder bags.

(I might be keeping this one)

I have also been experimenting with string patchwork. I am hoping to make a decent sized bag with four motifs on each side.

I also got the chance to change the coffee table display ready for the Easter weekend.

All I need now are a few budding spring twigs to make an Easter tree.

(More next time)