April in Your Garden - Page 10

Hi all-fail to understand this preoccupation with ironing--must be a British thing.

I am chuffed-just spotted some buds on my Tree Peony-it was a gift several years ago, and has never bloomed. Dying to see what colour it is!

today so far it's cloudy--the plan is to lay the first course of block for my retaining wall--not if it rains, of course.

Geoff, as your business is picking up, do you have a job for a girl that knows her business?     

Inkadog exciting news about the Peony, I look forward to seeing the photo.

Flowerchild-you will be my first employee providing you can commute and be here everyday at sunrise

There will not be any ironing involved

Kate, Cosmos!  Why didn't I think of that.  I have lots of different pinks and whites growing from seed.  Poppies too!  Doh!  Perfect, they can just sit on top and waft about prettily until the end of the season, be pulled up, and then top dress and mulch the tulips underneath.  You're a genius!

Wintersong, I like the sound of that combination.  The Aquilegia underplanted with the Lady's Mantle, and it's frothy, limey green-ness.  Might steal that idea .

Inka, get your camera ready for that Tree Peony!

Yvie

I was rained off from work on Saturday, so spent the afternoon playing around trying to find somewhere for the latest sculpture that I made last week, then spent the rest of the rainy weekend weeding,  removing buried rubble from under patches of the lawn, then repairing the damage. I even found time to finally get some planting started on the veg plot.

Yvie, the thing about a small garden is you soon learn to double plant.

Eddie I love the sculptures, do you do commissions?

kate1123 wrote (see)

Eddie I love the sculptures, do you do commissions?

Thanks for the kind words Kate.

 I have recently started to take on commisions and whilst I work with oak everyday for a living as a timber framer, my real passion and love is for sculpture and one day I hope to be able to give up the timber framing completely to concentrate solely on sculpture and garden art. I just find it so satisfying and mentally rewarding. My problem is that I don't want to part with any of them.

This is another piece that I did a few weeks ago, and I'm currently quite keen to develop this theme further.

My next project is this little creature of the deep. I can't wait to get started on it.

I can see your dilemma, it must be hard to give them up when you have spent so much time on them.

I'd forgotten that I also found time over the weekend to give this simple garden bench a further coat of Danish oil. I now just need to finish the wall!

kate1123 wrote (see)

I can see your dilemma, it must be hard to give them up when you have spent so much time on them.

I even find it hard to part with things like this simple deer. I want to keep them all.

I did some sculpting work in my day, mainly teaching children but mine is household mostly in clay. I would dearly love to work in wood or stone, (I have a stone fetish) and I even had a very very expensive collection of chisels bought for me as a gift, (they belonged to a sculptor who died) but as yet wood chunks are beyond my budget. Lat year a lady cut down her massive pines and I knocked on her door to ask for spare bits but her mother in law took the lot for burning!

So, garden art is definitely an interest of mine when I find the wood.

Love the sculptures, and look forward to seeing the Creature of the Deep develop!

Inkadog wrote (see)

Love the sculptures, and look forward to seeing the Creature of the Deep develop!

Thanks. You won't recognise it as the same piece of wood by the time that I finished playing with it.

Wintersong, if you happen to live in East Sussex, I'm sure that I could find you some wood to practice on.

Although I know a couple of people that carve/sculpt from Stone, it has never interested me. I still admire the skill involved though.

@Eddie J: You're kidding, I live in Kent. That makes us practically neighbours

*flings a seed potato in Eddie's direction*

Out with the camera and iscovered this in the wild shady garden.

Wonder if this link will work.

Inkadog wrote (see)

Out with the camera and iscovered this in the wild shady garden.

Wonder if this link will work.

Nope

dudleyas-native to coastal north america-tender but thrive inside-the one in the picture is about 8 inches across and ready to bloom-90f here on sunday-a record-the same today-Big Summer is coming

Thanks for the info David.

Wintersong wrote (see)

@Eddie J: You're kidding, I live in Kent. That makes us practically neighbours

*flings a seed potato in Eddie's direction*

I must have done something very bad in a past life.