Tuesday, April 29, 2008
gardening project day 10
When I went to look at the watering can to refresh my memory for painting it, I discovered that bindweed had looped prettily through it! Bindweed has such pretty heart-shaped leaves. However, due to it's strangling of everything else growing behaviour, I spend lots of time pulling out bindweed - no chance of eradicating it completely because it invades from the railway cutting which backs onto my garden.
Monday, April 28, 2008
gardening project day 9
Friday, April 25, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
gardening project days 6 and 7
Hooray! I've been able to upload these two images : )
The pruners are antique: they came from my Grandad, and I have seen identical pair in a museum of gardening. They are the best: I've had modern pruners, which have not lasted more than a couple of years, unlike Grandad's which still do sterling service in my garden : ).
The flower pot was knocked over sometime during the winter - probably by a squirrel! Fortunately, the geranium, or to be strictly correct, perlagonium, is very forgiving, and will recover now I have replanted it.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Gardening project day 6
Hmm.. Well, I have another image ready to post, and blogger won't let me upload an image at the moment!
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
gardening project day 5
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Gardening project day 4
A lovely facet of tidying my neglected garden is discovering hidden plants like this tiny violet and the muscari hyacinths : ) The violets have arrived on their own, and the tiny hyacinths have migrated from where they were originally planted by me. It is so rewarding seeing them - a definite encouragement to go outside and do more tdying.
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Gardening project day 3
Here is today's new illustration: next step in the garden is some serious pruning and weeding! Fortunately, local council collects garden waste separately for turning into compost. (Bonfires are not allowed where I live). I also had another go at tweaking the colour balance from yesterday's illustration: this time using Photoshop's "curves" function, which has worked a lot better.
Monday, April 07, 2008
Gardening project day 2
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Gardening project day 1
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