In Preop Limbo...

17th June 2018

Birthday week and Granny clearing and sorting our house out!
It's been an eventful and chaotic week in our house and we have sorted a lot of garage sale items. The sale is next week...

Allium

The week of my birthday was not restful but a lot was achieved. I slept a lot because I think the thought of the surgery has hit me for six. Gardening was on the backburner due to other things taking priority, but the kind gifts of family have enabled me to buy some things for the garden and dear friends from far away have treated me to Ardbikie Gin and Gardener's balm for my hands. Somebody is following my blog!
My clearing of a corner for a compost bin was abruptly halted when my husband's car was written off in March... and the cleared stuff had never reached a green bin, but it was collected by the refuse lorry on Thursday. Yay!
A large amount of couch grass beside my rhubarb was cleared and a greenhouse was assembled today! This was my dear husband's attempt to get me growing from seed and saving me a fortune in pregrown plants. My brother gave me an Amazon voucher which has been spent on some of my favourites; blue poppies, chocolate cosmos and seeds and plug plants.
I've watched a lot of the garden shows on TV this year with envy, but our budget and free time is not about that this year.
We will try to enjoy our month until I go for surgery, as yes, I have a preop date the first week of July and Surgery is scheduled for mid-July, a few days before the school suumer holiday. I go to see my consultant on Thursday and I must prepare my question list...

A new garden centre...

25May 2018

This weekend involves lots of food and it taking my mind off surgeries and biopsies. We went round the Letchworth Food Festival and had lovely Spanish churros. Then I lunched with MS Friends, a group where the local MS Society group subsidises lunch for people with MS at a super pub in Henlow. My youngest spent lunch up a tree but had a healthy fruit salad with her ice cream!

garden centre cat

We visited the garden centre we had not been to before which had amazing window box plants, in amazing oranges, reds, and tricolour perlargoniums. They had beautiful olive, oranges and lemon trees too.

Purple aquilegia in our garden

Tree climbing over lunch

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Spiky allium I think is called Christophii

I have said our garden is overgrown but finding treasures poking up between the green stuff adds to the pleasures of the garden. I did try to eradicate some of the pink in our palette but finding it looks better in small bunches with my special spiky alliums coming up between. I found my husband still expects me to try and grow fruit and veg in my planters but I had planted more flowers and am hopeful of them lasting a bit longer if we cover the plants in the winter.

Spiky shiny allium peeking through other plants