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20/5/2014

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We're enjoying the simple pleasure of being in the garden all day every day lately.
 
There are four pairs of birds nesting - great tits and blue tits are already feeding young in the nestboxes on the end of the shed, the swallows are refurbishing last year's nest above the studio window, and wrens are making a nest in the clematis of the last two posts! Our tame robin keeps his nest a secret from us..
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Things are popping up all over the place.

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The Brandy Snap tulip collection lived up to expectations - gorgeous.

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I'm painting canes for a sweet pea wigwam. This one is now planted with sweet pea 'Almost Black' and the deep purple and wonderfully scented 'Matucana'. Around it I've sown a dark plum coloured annual poppy and cornflower 'Black Ball'.

Can't wait to see if it works..

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Last year's tulips from the black pots were  replanted in the cutting beds and have given us lots of lovely bunches for the house.

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This year in the pots are the delicate and beautiful 'Vintage Silk' collection from Sarah Raven who has a great eye for colour combinations.

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An unlikely success as a cut flower is purple sprouting brocolli - it has lasted nearly a week in the vase (and doesn't smell cabbagey at all).


I love time spent outdoors - fresh air, birdsong, some physical work followed by a good night's sleep....a little bit of heaven.
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elaine link
20/5/2014 04:15:26 pm

Your tulip collections are simply ... lovely. Nice to hear that you have plenty of birds nesting round and about. We put up a couple of bird boxes last year the blue tits seemed really interested at first but must have decided not to bother. Maybe next year. We have had a wonderful few days of gorgeous weather, a chance to get everything planted out before it all changes at the end of the week.

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Freda
21/5/2014 05:37:11 am

We too have had a few lovely days - what a difference it makes to everything! I hope the birds take up residence next year..

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Swissrose link
20/5/2014 08:20:02 pm

Be-yooo-tiful tulips! We are so disappointed that whenever we have nice ones, they never re-appear the following year - any tips?! All that comes up regularly are a few that were here before we ever came…:(

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Freda
21/5/2014 05:41:24 am

We lift the tulips without cutting them back and store them in trays until the leaves are yellowed, then clean them up and replant in autumn in the cutting patch where it doesn't matter so much if they don't produce flowers - we get two or three seasons out of most of them this way.

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Swissrose link
22/5/2014 02:56:16 am

Thanks, will try that :)

Lucille link
20/5/2014 11:30:55 pm

I love your attention to detail. I'd never thought of painting the canes. I have raised some Black Ball cornflowers and have a few sweet peas waiting to go out so that's just the poppy and the canes and I can try your idea out. Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery no?

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Freda
21/5/2014 05:45:11 am

The poppy I've used is the annual papaver somniferum Dark Plum from Sarah Raven - sumptous! Can I look forward to some pics? Thank you so much for the link (and for thinking of me in Paris - I'm touched!)

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Sarah link
21/5/2014 05:08:02 am

The purple sprouting brocolli looks so good in the jug and I love the collection of tulips.particularly the brandy snap and vinatage silk. I have bought the vintage silk sweet pea collection from Sarah and hope they will be as good. Sarah x

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Freda
21/5/2014 05:46:03 am

I look forward to pictures of those too!

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