Exploring the wild patch!

A very pretty wild patch....

Thank you. It's one of my favourite parts of the garden.

It's lovely to have enough garden for a wild patch......

It's actually not a very large garden, Dd. I have it in three fairly equal sections : a patio with a herb bed alongside close to the house in a very sunny area; a smallish circular grassed area (not in good enough condition to call a lawn, although that's what it should be) which is surrounded by fairly deep borders; a "wild" area through an arch, which borders onto a school site, and is edged by sycamores over the low wall. At the moment it is all a bit unkempt because - for various reasons - last year was not my best gardening year! But I have loved it very much for the last 43 years.

If you are interested, I wrote a blog "My garden" on my "Melchisedec" account, describing it.

Cute! lUcy Attwell springs to mind!

Thank you, Karen. Perhaps a bit more steel in there...!

:)

Is this darling child a grand-daughter? I personally love the wild look. A beautiful formal garden is a treat, but a hunt in the wild for queer plants that's fun.

Yes, Wells, she is my granddaughter, a real peach! She spends every Thursday here with us.

The wild look is very much my style, I just can't help it. I reorganise beds (sometimes) in the fond belief that I want more formality but they always end up on the wild side because it's what I like really!

Oh yes - determined is the word! Lenora will be two next week. She comes here every Thursday, and is getting to be so much fun that the hours just fly. Occasionally I go to her house instead - about 45 minutes away - and spend 10 - 11 hours there. It skims by, and we enjoy so many laughing times together! Such a joy.

Oh that sounds good, Homebird! Hard work, but so rewarding. I hope Samuel's Christmas meal is a success!

They were here on Friday for a family get-together. Lenora wanted to sit on my lap towards the end of the meal - the first time she has ever done that with anyone while her Mummy and Daddy have been there. "Pleased" and "flattered" don't begin to describe how I felt! But, of course, she is growing up fast.