Gardeny Goodness

In autumn last year, we moved house, and now we have a garden. A nice one. In the past we had either no garden or 75 acres of lawn (possibly a slight exaggeration...) that was a nightmare to mow and led to extreme garden avoidance. Our current home came with a small and manageable mature garden.

As this is our first summer with this garden there is a lot that is mysterious. Plants and flowers keep popping up that we did not know we had. Many of which we have no idea what they are. We decided just to let the garden be this summer, to find out what we have and then think about changes. One thing the garden includes is a lavender bush. This bush is terribly overgrown and has no scent, but it is lovely and purple and attracts all the neighbourhood bees. I love this!

Actually, one of my favourite things to do on a weekend morning is to take to dog outside (who is a sun-dog and likes to lie on warm flagstones enjoying the sunshine), sit on the patio with a cup of tea or my breakfast and watch the bees do their nectar gathering thing; ants run about; spiders on the hunt; birds and butterflies flapping about... It is just so peaceful and lovely, and not something I ever really had the opportunity to do before. It is terribly grown up, but I think enjoying your own garden is one of he nicer sides of being a grow up.