Hello and garden update

Nice to have you back Lulu, I enjoyed looking at your photos

You garden is a delight Lou. I love your arch, Gaura and your veggies look good too. Enjoy your elderflower cordial, I always used to make it when the kiddies were little!

Loved this blog Lulu....welcome back...:>)

Thank You girls. Good to be back.
Not sure if a Pims isn't the order of the evening GM!!!
Just about to go and give a thorough water!! Things are drooping which never usually droop, including me.
Now a busy week ahead organising 50th birthday bash!

Nice to hear from you Lulu and to see some pics of your garden. I'd love some of that cordial when it's ready...or perhaps you could give me the recipe???

Hi Lulu....definitely Pims I think. Good with birthday cake too. That is a nice arch you've got there.

Hi Lulu, nice to see you back! Brilliant photos of your garden, I love your arch, I have been wanting one like that for years, it should last a life time. I am watching one on eBay, they are always so expensive, but worth every penny. :)))

I have a recipe Waddy if Lou is busy !!

Have you tried elderflower Tea? One flower in a cafetiere makes enough for two mugfuls. And you don't have to wait for two days!

So there you are, Lulu! Have missed you. Lovely blog. The fox cub is adorable and I love your arch. Stera's tea sounds like a great idea too.

I like your arch :o) Happy birthday for when it comes !
Lovely photos of wildlife and pets also :o)

Cracking arch Lulu! Good to see you on here again!

Hi Waddy, the recipe was 20 flower heads 1.5 k sugar, 1 L water, 4 lemons zest and then sliced. Boil water...chuck in sugar..let it cool...throw in flowers zest and sliced lemons and leave for 48 hours. Any flower heads left you can make a tea as Stera says! Sad that the flowers are now over, so can't pick any more to make any tea!
Linda the Pims ran out on friday eve, we had an impromptu BBQ at the cricket ground..I bought enough meat to last the weekend but friends kept joining us and we ran out of everything!
I think this arch was the deal of the century..it wasn't that expensive just an amazing find especially in Tetbury where everything is usually so expensive.

The WLCam is out on the patio tonight. Am hoping to catch the vixen and maybe a cub or two eating up some old cherries I put on the table. I've put them right at the edge of the table, wanting to see her spit the pips out!!
Hello TB, nice to be missed...Now I have to stay up half the night going through all the pics!!! Actually not. it's def bedtime, up at 5.30 each morning!!!
Hywel, Hello..those pink Eveing Primrose still a bit weak to send. How's your new Pusscat?
KS, that arch would look fab in your garden!!

What a wonderful birthday pressy, and i love the fox's toy are so lucky to see them

Don't worry about the Evening Primrose. Leave them till next year if you like :o)
Thank you for asking about Bella. She is enjoying herself driving me mad lol !
I wouldn't worry about catching up with GoY. Just take a look when you feel like it. I haven't been on very much myself lately. Other things take priority sometimes :o)

Fallen in love with your garden, Lulu.
Your arch and seat are lovely; I wouldn't be at all surprised to see fairies caught on your wildlife camera too, I bet they are equally as 'at home' as the foxes and amphibians.
Is your aquilegia a named variety, it is a beauty.

Funnily enough, I've been thinking about an arch at the entrance to the little gravel path!

Hi Lulu....everything's lovely and colourful.I have white Gaura which stays in the soil and has survived 5 or 6 winters now! Great that u have tadpoles, let's hope they survive this year!And that arch is superb...you have very good taste!

I'm amazed at your Gaura Paul. do you protect them. I also think that mine get a bit crowded in, which they don't like.
Good luck finding an arch Karen!!
Thanks Zela, I'll tell the fairies you have spotted them!!
Hi CmSue, hope all is good with you?
Glad Bella is being a good puss Hywel. Millie snuck into the house last night, she was ever so pleased with herself. I may have to put in a couple of cat flaps for when she is an old moggie and teach Sluggy to be nice to her and tell hubby to stop hissing at her, it's really annoying and Millie always hisses back. She is a clever cat!

No protection Lulu, for the white Gaura...Although I did lose my pink one...I think it was swamped by other plants!

I lost my pink ones first and the next year the white, swamped me thinks!
ps.....the elderflower cordial is simply scrummy. Wish I had made more but the flowers were nearly over. Will collect small pots of a kind I can freeze and make lots and lots next season :)

Beautiful arch, I have arch envy now :) I would like to replace my damaged wooden one with a metal one. Are you going to grow something over it?

Great blog Lulu, love the pics of the foxes, it must be great being able to record them like that, your garden is looking good and thats a lovely arch you have there, I hope you enjoy your birthday bash and look forward to seeing more of your wildlife as the summer continues, thats if you don't wilt away in this heatwave......

Gee Lol. Good luck in finding an arch. Not sure what I'm going to grow over it...don't want to cover it too much because it's so pretty. At the moment I've wired it with planters of geraniums.
Lincslass, the foxes are on a diet of apples whilst preparing for this party (not so smelly as trays of meat) They come out when it's cool and make lots of noise playing in the garden!
There is a massive tent on our back lawn as I type...ooo er it's getting close now. Off to buy the final food stuff this morning. will post some pics of the view from the marquee onto the garden, it looks so pretty. I think it's slightly cooler on Sat. Today is meant to be another 27 degree scorcher with Sat. being around 25.
It's 4.30 am now, lovely and cool and the birds have just started to sing.
Right back to bed to see if I can have a wee nap!

Lulu, you are a dear, thanks for the recipe. I shall save it into my favourites and be ready to make it next year, hope the party went well :)