Hello, all you lovely people wondering about my "open " day. "My public" and I seemed to enjoy it equally. The weather was perfect and my plants and wildlife impressed. I cannot wait to repeat it. It was so lovely to share my beautiful space. I took lovely photos of my visitors and printed them and sent them off to the chairwoman for their next meeting. They insisted on having a collection for the Botanic Garden (I had displayed the Garden publicity material) and so I was flavour of the month the next day when i went to do my volunteer gardening there. Incidentally I had been in two minds whether to pull up the forget-me-nots,grape hyacinths, Spanish bluebells etc which were over very early in the drought, but decided to leave them and thank goodness I did. After the rain we had yesterday we had brilliant sunshine and the butterflies came out in droves to feed on the nectar on the few remaining flowers. I've never seen so many orange tips. I spent the whole day yesterday dead-heading and weeding, it was so easy. But today is planting time for veg. There is no room for me in my conservatory at the moment Because of the hundreds of plants I have grown. Sugar peas, dwarf beans and salad onions must go out and the runner beans are propping each other up. The sweetcorn is two feet high but they are in bigger pots and can wait. And of course my sweet pea freebie from our mag.(which have all grown wonderfully) and the one sunflower out of my seven free seeds which was the only one that germinated. Anybody else have this happen?
