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Cottage gardener - encouraging bees & butterflies. Greeting card crafter, knitter. Love The Gaslight Anthem, Watford FC, hardy geraniums & frogs in my pond. Retired nurse. South of Cambridge.
Good tomatoes this year. Have harvested many already. Mainly Shirley & Gardener’s Delight. Also Ailsa Craig.
July 29, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Good tomatoes this year. Have harvested many already. Mainly Shirley & Gardener’s Delight. Also Ailsa Craig.
Clematis in the front garden. Name forgotten!🌱
June 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Clematis in the front garden. Name forgotten!🌱
Bee heaven always on this shrub
June 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Bee heaven always on this shrub
Favourite blue geraniums coming in to flower 🌱
June 8, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Favourite blue geraniums coming in to flower 🌱
So pleased with this rose. Absolutely Fabulous. Really pretty, healthy & lots of blooms. Bought it cheaply, too.
June 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM
So pleased with this rose. Absolutely Fabulous. Really pretty, healthy & lots of blooms. Bought it cheaply, too.
Garden views. Roses are climbers Snow goose & Shropshire lad. Love geraniums.
June 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Garden views. Roses are climbers Snow goose & Shropshire lad. Love geraniums.
Roses in my garden are wonderful this sunny Sunday morning. Have a lovely day!
James Galway…Shropshire Lad….Absolutely fabulous & Peter Beal’s Goldfinch. 🌱
James Galway…Shropshire Lad….Absolutely fabulous & Peter Beal’s Goldfinch. 🌱
June 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Roses in my garden are wonderful this sunny Sunday morning. Have a lovely day!
James Galway…Shropshire Lad….Absolutely fabulous & Peter Beal’s Goldfinch. 🌱
James Galway…Shropshire Lad….Absolutely fabulous & Peter Beal’s Goldfinch. 🌱
A lovely time of year in the garden. Glad to get some rain. Falstaff about to bloom. 🌱
May 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
A lovely time of year in the garden. Glad to get some rain. Falstaff about to bloom. 🌱
Another little vintage 3ply baby cardigan. Enjoyable to knit
May 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Another little vintage 3ply baby cardigan. Enjoyable to knit
Geranium Mayflower…just starting to bloom…pretty against philadelphus 🌱
May 20, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Geranium Mayflower…just starting to bloom…pretty against philadelphus 🌱
Last year’s blooming ‘Warm Welcome’. A pretty colour. Just about to flower now. #RoseWednesday #Roses
May 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Last year’s blooming ‘Warm Welcome’. A pretty colour. Just about to flower now. #RoseWednesday #Roses
Morning! Good to see blue sky & sunshine. Cheerful Welsh poppies have seeded all around my garden. Here they are from a previous year, growing happily, just in shingle by the cottage.
April 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Morning! Good to see blue sky & sunshine. Cheerful Welsh poppies have seeded all around my garden. Here they are from a previous year, growing happily, just in shingle by the cottage.
Apple blossom time. Queen Cox🌱🍎
April 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Apple blossom time. Queen Cox🌱🍎
Cheery Forsythia in full bloom on this misty Cambridgeshire morning.
March 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Cheery Forsythia in full bloom on this misty Cambridgeshire morning.
Lots of things starting to bloom in the cottage garden…including my Daphne that I thought I’d lost two winters ago. Cut it back to the ground..and it has been growing well.
March 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Lots of things starting to bloom in the cottage garden…including my Daphne that I thought I’d lost two winters ago. Cut it back to the ground..and it has been growing well.
Lovely scent of sarcococca Christmas box near the cottage
February 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Lovely scent of sarcococca Christmas box near the cottage
Winter honeysuckle - a welcome sight & fragrance at this time of year.
February 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Winter honeysuckle - a welcome sight & fragrance at this time of year.
Remembering lovely, intelligent Ruby who left us two years ago, aged almost 14. A rescue pup from Woodgreen animal shelter. A German Shepherd cross with Australian sheep dog.
February 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Remembering lovely, intelligent Ruby who left us two years ago, aged almost 14. A rescue pup from Woodgreen animal shelter. A German Shepherd cross with Australian sheep dog.
A photo of Mr Frog, at my pond, from a while ago. The joy will be seeing the first frogspawn in the coming months.
January 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
A photo of Mr Frog, at my pond, from a while ago. The joy will be seeing the first frogspawn in the coming months.
My veg beds. Got to choose what to grow this year. Always a few new potatoes, carrots, spring onions, herbs.
January 14, 2025 at 8:15 PM
My veg beds. Got to choose what to grow this year. Always a few new potatoes, carrots, spring onions, herbs.
A happy sight. Primroses blooming this morning, just in the shingle beside the cottage.
December 25, 2024 at 10:47 AM
A happy sight. Primroses blooming this morning, just in the shingle beside the cottage.
Visited the Cambridge University Botanical Garden light show this evening. Two hours of walking through a magical land. Amazing! Great coffee & cake too!
December 21, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Visited the Cambridge University Botanical Garden light show this evening. Two hours of walking through a magical land. Amazing! Great coffee & cake too!
On this wild, stormy day, I have been recalling sunny June days when my flowering shrubs are a haven for bees.
December 7, 2024 at 9:52 AM
On this wild, stormy day, I have been recalling sunny June days when my flowering shrubs are a haven for bees.
December 2, 2024 at 8:51 AM
Have lots of 3ply baby yarn so have kept myself busy in evenings making a few of these. Shall donate to local maternity hospital…..but these days, do baby girls wear these vintage patterns? I’m out of touch…
November 30, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Have lots of 3ply baby yarn so have kept myself busy in evenings making a few of these. Shall donate to local maternity hospital…..but these days, do baby girls wear these vintage patterns? I’m out of touch…