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| Autumn raspberries are cut back each year |
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| Gooseberry and blackcurrant flowers are forming |
Our beech hedge is coming into leaf.
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| When all the new leaves cover the hedge the dead leaves are shed |
The farmers are busy rolling the grass and ploughing fields. The lambs are growing but are still young enough to gamble at dusk. I heard the cry of three oyster catchers when I walked along the river in the evening. Candy my dog has gone back to the kennels she came from.
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| Very smart |
The gorse is a vibrant yellow along the lanes.
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| Acid yellow |
Dandelions rule OK.
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| Dandelions are sun lovers and the flowers are also edible |
The gentle Welsh poppies remind me of my friend.
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| Paper thin petals |
I am making a series of door wreaths using flowers in season.
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| Ivy, blossom and daisies |
These are some of the flower arrangements I did for the Easter display at church.
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| For the entrance to the Haydock Centre |
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| For the entrance porch |
I have been weeding my allotment, extending the vegetable beds. I have made excellent progress with some very long days of digging. The soil is rock hard. I hope to finish by next week. Many of my vegetable plants in the greenhouse are ready to plant out, broad beans and kale and sweetcorn. I have planted some flower seeds today and the greenhouse is almost full.
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| Hi ho, hi ho it's off to dig I go |
I have redesigned my bees that feature in all my gardens and on my allotment.
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| New this year are wire wings |
This is a sock monkey I made for my granddaughter.
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| Cheeky |
