Crocheting and flowers

Even though I haven't been doing much crocheting, my granny stripe blanket is now taking shape. I'm pleased with how it's coming on and I'm excited to see how it will look once its finished, that might be a long way off though!

Here is my progress so far.

The pink lupin in the rockery is flowering now and looks lovely.

I don't know what has happened to the red lupin though! It went a bit funny after I bought it but it seems to be perking up a little bit now.

The foxglove isn't flowering yet but seems to be doing well.

I haven't seen any ladybirds yet this year, which is unusual. Last year it was about April when I first saw them and we had quite a few around the garden. I guess it's the late Spring making them later. I haven't seen many butterflies either, just the Large Whites.

I have been busy uploading my mums photos to Flickr now that you get 1 terabyte of storage and unlimited uploads, it's nice to look through the old photos. I will be packing tomorrow to go on holiday on Friday, hopefully I will get to do some posts while I'm away.

Hope you all have a great week!

 

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A beautiful day

It's been a beautiful day, very sunny but also very windy. I have finally put the pots out into the garden from the greenhouse and I managed to take some photos earlier. We have quite a large garden so I will try to get some photos to show the whole garden for another post.

This is the rockery with the pots behind it, the tall flowers on the left of the photo started coming through last year. I've looked in my new wild flowers book and I think they are Columbine. The Lupins and Foxgloves aren't flowering yet but I noticed the slugs have been eating them so I hope they will still flower.

 

 

This is a Gazania Tiger Stripe flower, it's one of my favourites but I prefer the orange ones.

This tree is in our neighbours garden, I think it looks lovely now it's in flower.

And finally, I got a picture of a Red Kite but unfortunately it wasn't very close so I will endeavour to get a better one. I missed a good photo opportunity earlier, when two Red Kites glided past the window as I was looking out.

I have just watched Springwatch in the Afternoon and I'm looking forward to watching the new series of Springwatch, which starts at 8pm tonight on BBC2.

 

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Birthday fun

We had fun at Legoland on Monday for my nieces birthday. It takes us about 40 minutes to get there, in good traffic. As its not the school holidays, there weren't that many people and the longest queue was about 10 minutes! We took a packed lunch this time as it can be expensive to buy lunch for everyone, most of the food places were closed and we sat at the picnic tables of one of them.

This is my kind of stop!

We saw these lovely flowers, I'm not sure what they are.

I managed to get all of my plants potted up over the weekend and yesterday. I've left them in the green house for now as we are still having some frosts. I also cleared part of the rockery and planted some lupins and foxgloves, I hope they will flower this year.

I saw this robin on the tree while planting in the rockery.

 

I put some washing out earlier and it's a beautiful day, clear blue sky and bright sunshine which is nice to see!

I've spent most of the morning composing this blog. I only have an iPad and every time I try to move to the end of the post it only goes down about halfway. It's so frustrating, any advice?

 

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