I'm sorry I didn't get round to my blog this Sunday, cos It was sunny - hallelujah!
The first sunny day for how long, feels like an eternity, doesn’t it?
Here in the UK anyway.
Day before, I was let loose in a garden department, and as they say, it all became a blur...
Spent most of the rest of the day trying to find some Ericaceous compost, to plant my new bright red Camellia, apparently, it’s an acid loving plant, along with heather, which I also bought, ‘Erica Darleyenesis’ lol sounds like a lady in a bonnet at Downton Abbey!
Oh, and ferns love it too, already one planted last year, woops.
The compost took so long to find, even a nursery had run out, so by the time I got home ready to plant things, it was already 4pm.
I realised I needed to tidy up the winter mess, of stuff blown around, weeding the bed of little yellow flowers from the lawn, and spread some new compost on the no dig bed.
There was a scurry of activity, planting, these and a ‘sage’ plant, re potting my 2 bay leaf plants, not ‘straight’ in the pot? and generally tidying up the place!
I got back in the house about 7pm just as it was going dark, as the solar lights lit their friendly evening cheer
Oh, and what heaven, I bought my first rose, a ‘Chandos Beauty Hybrid Tea Bush Rose’!
The picture of this rose, is like the most romantic wedding, or pale but fascinating, delicate, dreamy cream with a slight hint of pale pink. Oh, my heart stopped, my imagination fast forwarding to sit outside and ‘wonder at it’, along with the most beautiful fragrance!
Sounds like heaven...
Heads will turn! It’s a showstopper, truly, a ‘look at me, you’ve never seen anything quite as beautiful’ moment.
I worried as I planted it, I hit clay at the bottom of where I was digging, but apparently roses thrive on it! So, lucky me, phew, the splendour I’ll see from the living room, and its fragrance as I walk into the garden mmm, can’t wait, fingers crossed!
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Beautiful rose