I’ve Been Nowhere but in the Garden – Cherry Menlove

With it being Wednesday today, I’m coming to you from outside!

I‘ve been harping on about this but the weather here in the UK has been glorious over the last week or so.

At times it’s been too warm to work outside as the new place is a sun trap (YAY!!) but I’ve made

good use of the early mornings and evenings.

The picture above shows me outside, on the floor, making and tying up bunches of bay leaves.

I trimmed the bay bushes we have here and was chuffed at how well they seem to be drying out.

Come the colder months I’ll never have to purchase bay for soups and stews again.

have planted quite a few of them in this bed right here.

My thinking behind putting them there was that I hope to create a wall of Sunflowers in that spot.

Tall, friendly and, if I can help it, NOT eaten by slugs.

They are fairing pretty well so far and my nightly slug patrols are paying off.

The same can’t be said of the snails.

“Will you just keep off my Chrysanth’s?????. They are not yours, you didn’t pay for them or spend hours planting them!!!!”

This drives me crazy because I actually quite like snails. They have their home on their back, they’re quite slow and I

like the fact that their eyes reside on long stalks that

come out of their heads.

When I was small I used to touch them just to see them retract. Sorry about that Snails, I’m sure it was irritating.

Which is why I am now experiencing ‘poking snail eye’ karma!!!!

A section of the garden that is not being eaten by snails and one that I am very proud of is the Sweet William bed.

I bought these plants from my old house as I had begun to grow them from seed last year and was NOT going to miss them.

They transplanted super bloody well and have now started to flower. I love the vivacity of Sweet Williams.

The way the flowers are packed in with each other and look so great as a cut flower.

This is what I mean by that………

These came from my mum’s garden last year. Each week she would bring me bunch after bunch and I loved them,

which is why I was inspired to plant my own seeds and grow my own.

I have a feeling that growing these bad boys will be something I do each and every year, in each and every garden I

ever have until the whole world is one big Sweet William.

Yesterday I mentioned that we’d been laying turf over the weekend just past. We turned the soil over,

carried about 35 rolls of turf, laid it out, punched it into place, cut it to shape and then watered it.

The whole process is not complete until the grass has grown sufficiently to cover the joins but it’s well on it’s way

and I will go through the whole process in just a couple of weeks.

But for know I’m maintaining. I deadhead each evening in the sun and wander about the garden like

Vita Sackville-West talking to the plants and consoling them on the loss of their buddies because of Mr Snail.

Occasionally they talk back and tell me that the recently eaten chrysanthemum was a

fine fellow and a man of morals, a pillar in the flower community.

Then Robert the Husband comes out into the garden, ties me into my jacket and leads me off
to my padded room for the night.

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I’ll see you tomorrow morning. It can be nice to bestow upon a friend a hand-made gift but

NOT ONE that is crusty or looks below par. I think you’ll like my idea.

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