Wednesday...

I have one buddleia in my garden...a very light purple one.
But neighbours on either side have two slightly different shaded dark purple buddleias... which overhang into my garden!
I picked two massive bunches from my own garden this week and they are making the house smell amazing, so I thought I’d snip some of the overhangers too...

the selection of neighbourly purples...

...combined with sweet pea, lavender, perennial pea and bronze fennel ( I’m very proud of this purple fennel, as last year I picked a teeny seedling from a crack in a pavement, planted it in the garden and now it’s about 5ft tall and just about to flower! )

...I thought that the valerian, hydrangea and heuchera flowers added to and complimented the buddleia textures...

with the heuchera leaves echoing the purples and pinks, and the poppy heads acting as a good contrast...

I chose one of my favourite ceramic vases...

...and started with the buddleia and hydrangeas before the adding the valerian and the other green textures and props.

I really like the bold geometry of this black and white pencil as it often works as good visual punctuation, and this aqua colour always sits so well alongside pinks and purples...

I also have a strange little doghnut vase which belonged to my other grandma ( Florence ), and which is hugely useful for little snippings which I either I cut off and don’t use in the large arrangements or for flowers and leaves which I rescue after a flower and petal composition...

It’s quite an odd vase because really you have to look at it from above... perfect for the table!

Friday...with Pots

The shed is getting a little tidier now, and also seems to have a lot more space at the moment; we even had supper in there last night for the first time ever.

But although The Cheeks looks as if butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth he has wreaked havoc on a few plants just outside the shed door.
So, this morning I thought I’d put some suffering Heuchera into a pot and also sort out the succulents...

This bright yellow enamelled colander was given to me about 20 years ago by a voice teacher who was moving house. 

A few weeks later it was hurled across the room by my flat mate in one of those heated student rows, flying towards her obnoxious boyfriend, hence the chips...she missed.

I mixed some rough earth from the garden...

...spooned it into the colander

...and arranged the snail savaged survivors. ( I think this colander is all about survivors! )

For potting up the Heuchera, I added ash from my fire bin to some compost and mixed it up...

I’d salvaged these Heuchera from a man at the tip a few weeks ago, and earlier this week had salvaged them again from Cheeks’ own kind of tip!

I’d re-juvinated the plants in jam jars of water, and I could see definite signs of recovery when I planted them up...

...so I made sure that this time they were placed in a cat proof situation!

Throughout the year I keep Geraniums on my kitchen window sill; obsessively snipping and re-rooting them as well as admiring the relationship they always cultivate with their pot.

As I’d moved the succulents to a different spot today, I decided to unleash my extended family into the warm outdoors.

Really hope you all have a great weekend... in your own warm outdoors!