Woodland walks, seed planting, bright blooms, spring spotting, muddy paws, garden mulching, and bread making. A few favourite spring things that we have managed to fit around our working life this March. Every spare moment has been spent outdoors putting up fences to keep wild animals and loose dogs out of our front garden, planting bountiful hedges to feed the birds and tempt the bees and planning what seeds to sow to fill the gaps in our freshly mulched flower beds later in the season.
As you can see above, our garden is open to a quiet road but we have lots of dog walkers up here and that means lots of dogs on the loose, running in to say hello or chasing the cats, so we are putting in a rustic fence and trellis. Hopefully a rugged and wild looking creation with lots of opportunty to grow honeysuckle, roses and sweet peas up!
Small details from indoors – a vintage sari curtain in a dark corner and teeny scented pelargonium petals resting on the windowsills. I love to discover these tiny petals when they drop. So fragile.
Grasses and seed heads for decoration are a staple around here, I am sure you noticed! Our borage has been blooming for weeks now so we have been using their blue jewel petals to decorate home baked pitas, filled with every Deliciously Ella falafel recipe we can try. I bought this book a few months ago and every recipe is a winner. Some of the cakes are a bit of a shopping budget blower, but well worth it – I often make a half batch as it’s just us two here – or take extras round to family 🙂
