Gone potty? Plants gardens and lawns .

[Auriel]

Are they tasty? Or are they "special"

 

[JayCS]

Are they tasty? Or are they "special"

They are just absolutely much too beautiful to try. (But inedible.... so 'special' - but not 'special special', you no... )

 

[Harpy]

Yes they were growing on the roots of the old stump. Nothing left but black patches on the ground this morning.

 

[JayCS]

How do I choose from everything I've been doing the past few days? 77 photos today...
Ideas for deadwood, getting and decorating with natural stones, finding deco stuff in the shed and putting it out, neighbour bringing me an ammonite and seashells, discovering hidden flowers and distinguishing about 7 types of moss, all extremely beautiful to my eye....
Sorry I hope this amount and size doesn't bring your connection to its knees.

These are: under front doorstep, front of house (= pavement), starting with moss and stones, the last 4: what we now see first when we go out of the house.

 

[JayCS]

I saw this beautiful hanging bowl, very heavy, wanted it to stick out from everything else, but in the magnolia it was hidden too much, then I used that same stick and hung it with some sisal hemp or summink in our giant cherry tree. Where I'm actually dreaming of kids and grandkids swinging. Again, I can take this construction apart in one minute, which is again good, because as ever I'm not fully satisfied. Reminds me when I first put up all my paintings indoors, I used to rearrange them and turn many of them upsidedown or sideways, until they found their place more and more. Not final, but a bit more stable. Again each pic takes one minute to move. I'm actually now planning to put the pics I have no more room for, and also "calendar paintings" all over the place in the cellar, the shed, partly praps outdoors, rather than just storing them for no one and nothing.
The daffodil patch now has some selected natural stones. In the middle to the right is a big seasnailshell, which I feel is kitchy, but an eye-catcher too, praps something for kids to discover. I remember finding a strange shell somewhere on a walk and asking on a forum what it could be and was disappointed that it wasn't local, like this it was deco stuff. But on the other hand it is natural, and why do we collect this sort of stuff and then put it away. I just need ideas to make it fit in better. But it was fun to find a snail shell on a climbing rose this morning, and even more to find it alive and kicking an hour later. I don't know whether I need to protect anything from it, but first the joy at the beauty is above all.
Then small purple flowers on the "lawn" - this spawns hope that just letting it grow will end up in a natural beauty all of its own, esp. if I bring everything to its own right, keeping balance between the life forms.
What I do myself seems so artificial compared to the beauty of the natural growth that's coming up everywhere, I need to develop compromises.
In one of my organic food stores yesterday they had loads of seeds, which is what all the pots I've been finding and placing empty are waiting for, altho I was actually thinking of just waiting and seeing what grows by itself, cos there's so much shade everywhere that I shouldn't be forcing anything.
But I'm so keen to see the seeds get going, esp. sweet mace and cornflower / bluebottle, two of my absolute favourites. First I read I'd need to cultivate them first, then read on and saw if I wait and put them in later they will come later, and that will exactly solve a problem I saw last year: Loads of bulb flowers flourishing in the spring and early summer and then just green, no more colour at all.
This will now change, I'm sure. Just got to try and find or make room, cos I bought 25 types.
Maybe all the pots first, but maybe dig up some or all of the patio which is such a waste of earth...
Ah, that's just brought me to my next plan....

 

[JayCS]

So I've named the moss sorts (uploaded in that order and named): Ferny, Starry, Furry, i sparkler, Starry on Tentacle, Flowery, Dark bush.
#10 Ending on a pink tipped white daisy between starry on tentacle.

"i tip" (or "i tiplet" actually) is the literal translation German expression for "icing on the cake", "last detail", "final touch" and here to me "i sparkler" (with a small "i" of course) means that like in the case of a real sparkler the sparkle is just at the end.
But I thought I'd seen a moss sort sparkling completely, not just the "i tip", but I can't find a pic, so either I looked wrong or it didn't come over on one of the pics. If I find it, I'd call it "sparkler" separate from the "i sparkler". Sometime I'll try to find out the Latin names, but mine are better, aren't they. It'd be funny if they had similar names tho!

 

[Harpy]

Wow the moss is pretty and the little daisy just sets it off.
Your names for them are funny.
I just trimmed the dead leaves off my banana plants. Looks tidy again. My May bush is looky tacky, gives me a job to do. Will go see if I can prune that right back.
What are you going to put in the pot?

 

[Harpy]

Well I pruned the May bush. What a job. Quite proud of how much tidier it looks.
Now for new branches to grow. this May bush is well over 60 years old. Hopefully I didn’t hack to too much.
My old seniors skin got caught up in a snapped branch that flung back and has left with some nasty torn skin on my arm. Oh well.

 

[JayCS]

left with some nasty torn skin on my arm.

I got a dead branch of pyrocantha/firethorn with all its bits out.
My best handshoes, eh, no wait, that's German: gloves didn't stop thorns getting into my skin. My hands are OK, but again my fingertips paining. So every time I got up tonight I put hamamelis cream on it, better now.

 

[Harpy]

I got a dead branch of pyrocantha/firethorn with all its bits out.

Oh ouch, lantana is a horror to clear out too. Or picking black berries.

My best handshoes, eh, no wait, that's German:

Handshoes lol.

gloves didn't stop thorns getting into my skin. My hands are OK, but again my fingertips paining. So every time I got up tonight I put hamamelis cream on it, better now.

Does sound like a vicious plant.
Might need a stronger glove.

 

[JayCS]

Might need a stronger glove.

Definitely. And I do have quite a variety, like some old leather gloves. Ordered my gloves better today.
Don't mind the pain when the thorns dig in, but after washing, esp. at night, or when inflamed.
Pruning a buxus today has put cuts all over my forearms cos it pushes up my hoodie sleeves: Any ideas?

 

[Harpy]

You need to find an old pair of jeans, cut the legs to length of your arms and re-hem the smallest end and thread elastic in . Ta da arm protectors. Lol

 

[Harpy]

You know you have hit the jackpot when you go for a walk and find a wallet.
You open it up and find the biggest reward ever.


It made my day, I found the perfect new home for him near my wishing well.
How cool ?

 

[Eff2013]

Oh my goodness Harpy, that is amazing. It would have frightened me though.
It looks so cosy in there!

 

[Harpy]

Sure does Eff2013, very snug. I love frogs, as I probably said too many times lol.