Another day, another stroll around the garden

congratulations on the flowering bonsai, I can understand your excitement! The apple blossom is beautiful, and all those seedlings and plants hardening off are full of promise for the summer. All we need now is some decent weather!

That's very generous of you Louisa - yes, we'll surely get some summer weather soon. Our open-air swimming pool opens next week, so it MUST be summer!

Some lovely plants there Sheila, all queuing to be planted out, think I have given up, I am going to plant more grasses in the hope that they will just grow and be showie!!

Wonderful to see the Magnolia flower, Sheila ..
.. and now you have Dwarf Amnesia too ... Lol.
I hope you're patenting all these varieties ;o)

Your seedlings look neat ...
I hope there's no building allowed on the school playing field...
You have a lovely garden ...

What a lovely blog...isn't that meadow field just wonderful? You are really clever with the bonsai Sheila..that one is a cracking shape!

the others have said it all - congratulations on the bonsai flowering!

Many thanks Grandmage, Terra, Karen and Stera :))

cant blame you for being excited about your bonsai flowers sheila, love the field and how its gone wild meadow look, lets hope it stays that way for many years, we are sick of buildings going up near our village and in it to :( taking all the green belt up.
you have some nice new plants there doing well, so lets hope we get some sun soon sheila to get planting :o)

Thank you San. I'm sorry your area is being built on. We did feel fortunate - and delighted of course - when the Council decided that the field would be best kept 'for recreational use' and said that it would not be built on for another ten years. That'll do for us, lol!

Great to see plants nearly ready for the big outdoors and how lovely they all look.
We have waited a long time for this and I think we all appreciate it all the more because of this!

Thank you Chris. We have indeed had a long wait, and today was actually WARM and SUNNY, so plenty of pottering and then sitting in the garden with the crossword and a cuppa . . . bliss!

What a delight your bonsai is it would be great to see pics when the blossom opens. I can imagine how pleased you felt when your Council made the choice of not using it for building purposes, we have what was once allotments and then a childrens park directly leading on to our back garden and when the swings etc became obsolete we were so relieved when our Council decided to let it go back to meadow and keep it as a recreational area .
Just hope the weather is kind to you so those healthy looking plants can go where they belong.

Thanks Phyl . . . believe it or not, that blob in the middle of the pic IS a flower! And not Magnolia at all: Karensusan has very obligingly told me that it is Euonymus! Not to worry - I'm happy with anything that gives me a flowering bonsai :)

I should have gone to S savers Shiela, Bless Karensusan I would never have guessed Euonymus, but if your happy - then alls right with the world.

:)))

Was very interested to read about your Bonsai, we have one a Abies Koreana which we hope one day will have the blue cones, it is over 20 years old now, do you trim the roots every year of yours?

I trim the roots of most of my bonsai, most years, but it's probably not essential. The Copper Beech is very difficult to get out because of the inward curve of the bowl, so that often misses a year. And I leave the tiny ones for the first year or three!

Do you have a pic of your Abies Angela??

Will put one on Sheila, when the rain stops!!

OK . . . that'll be Friday then, lol. I'll look forward to it!