Dirt, bugs and rain...
.. the joys of gardening! What else to do on a long weekend except join the millions heading off to garden centres, pick up a couple of plants and then put them in earth and hope to heck that they grow!
Found a new garden centre today, the nearest one to me smells, is terribly laid out and is just depressing, and it was fabulous! Didn't know where to start, so something safe... lawn needs it's patches fixed - easily sorted with a box of lawn for dummies seed. Then it was off to the plant area, oh wow, plant heaven and not a care that it was steadily drizzling in the outside areas! A lovely blue grass discovered, some fabulously coloured oriental poppies and of course flanders poppies as well (hopefully these will grow from seed and yes, red seems to be my flower colour at the moment! Well would have to be after the black tulips and iris'!)
Then the farm shop was discovered... all grown on the grounds (this place is huge and I mean HUGE!) and you can drive round and pick your own too! There were even a couple of vegetables and fruit that this travelled person had never heard of.. though were rather scarey looking and not sure if I'd want to figure out how to eat them! Could have spent oodles of money in there, though restrained myself to rhubarb and a delicious steak and kidney pie with the pastry that makes you go mmMMmm! Was sorely tempted by the stem ginger ice cream but at £7.00 for 1 litre I thought that was a bit extreme, even for my spending sprees!
Found a new garden centre today, the nearest one to me smells, is terribly laid out and is just depressing, and it was fabulous! Didn't know where to start, so something safe... lawn needs it's patches fixed - easily sorted with a box of lawn for dummies seed. Then it was off to the plant area, oh wow, plant heaven and not a care that it was steadily drizzling in the outside areas! A lovely blue grass discovered, some fabulously coloured oriental poppies and of course flanders poppies as well (hopefully these will grow from seed and yes, red seems to be my flower colour at the moment! Well would have to be after the black tulips and iris'!)
Then the farm shop was discovered... all grown on the grounds (this place is huge and I mean HUGE!) and you can drive round and pick your own too! There were even a couple of vegetables and fruit that this travelled person had never heard of.. though were rather scarey looking and not sure if I'd want to figure out how to eat them! Could have spent oodles of money in there, though restrained myself to rhubarb and a delicious steak and kidney pie with the pastry that makes you go mmMMmm! Was sorely tempted by the stem ginger ice cream but at £7.00 for 1 litre I thought that was a bit extreme, even for my spending sprees!
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