After several rather busy days, I spent an entire Sunday afternoon in the garden. Just sitting, knitting, drinking tea and looking around with my camera at hand. Everything is growing so fast, I can hardly keep up.
Above, you can see my utterly comfortable chair. It was a present for my 50th Birthday, which seems like yesterday, but is in fact so long ago that the fabric has become quite faded in places.
Behind my chair, you can see a part of our small wildflower meadow. It took a while to get going, but now it’s absolutely glorious, with many different plant species and always something new to discover. And one of the best things about it, is that it attracts lots of butterflies, bees and other insects. Here, on an oxeye daisy, is a large tortoiseshell:
Mooi tuinfoto’s Marijke!
ik ben benieuwd hoe groot je lathyrus nu is 🙂
Met dit warme weer ben ik begonnen met het borduren van een lavendelzakje, van Textile Heritage Scotland. Erg leuk vind ik zelf. En prettig breien nú, vind ik de doekjes uit het boek van Helle Dikte Neigaard (dat nu redelijk goedkoop bij de witte boekhandel te koop is).
De eerste bloem zit erin! Bedankt voor je tips. Ze klinken leuk en gezellig; ik ga ernaar kijken.
Lovely to spend some time with you in the garden, even if it is from a distance!
That shawl looks so very soft and fluffy, hopefully the weather will cool soon and you can enjoy working on it again.
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You’re very welcome! And it looks like it’s going to be cooler the coming days.
Thank you for sharing your afternoon in the garden…the dark spots inside the foxglove blooms are actually the footprints of the fairies that climbed in the flower for their naps.
Thank you for your lovely snippet of botanical knowledge! It brought a smile to my face.
Thank you for sharing your garden with us. It’s lovely! I live on the west coast of Canada and we share most of the plants I can see in your photos… the birds, however, are new to me.
Nature is amazing!!
Hi Gwen! Thank you for you comment. It’s so nice to ‘meet’ people from all over the world through my blog and knitting. To us, these birds are such everyday creatures, that I hardly gave it a thought that not everybody knows them. You, in turn, must have birds around that we’ve never heard of.