Life has been a bit busy lately. It is all due to having a new kitchen fitted, which has meant the rest of the house has been turned upside down. I've been falling over kitchen worktops and boxes of pots, brewing up umpteen times a day and trying to persuade the cat not to leave home. Then there was the cleaning up every day after the kitchen fitters had gone home and trying to cook a decent meal in a makeshift kitchen on the dining room table. But whilst the house was in such a mess, and fortunately the weather was good, I could at least escape to the garden and catch up with some jobs out there.
It's been good to have that time to appreciate the garden instead of dashing off to the allotment. I feel that I've made friends with it again. I've tidied the borders front and back, sown seeds for the allotment beds and tackled one or two projects. Last year when we had the big conifer cut down we saved some big pieces of tree trunk to do something with. I wasn't sure what the 'do something with' was going to be at the time but I finally got around to 'doing something' with them. I've also found two plants which I must have planted last year but I've no idea what they are and have no recollection of where I got them from. They are growing very well and I'm looking forward to seeing them flower so I can identify them. Must remember to label plants.
The rest of the garden is looking good, as it always does in May. There is lots of lovely fresh green foliage and blue, yellow and purple flowers--aquilegia, euphorbia, forget-me-not, brunnera, golden grasses, purple honesty. Everything is growing really well and the borders are filling up at an amazing rate.
Finally the work is finished and I now have a beautiful kitchen, a spotlessly clean house and I'm back on speaking terms with the garden.
