My Studio begins!

This week has been very exciting as it has seen the beginning of the Pinks and Greens Studio! It feels a long time coming after tripping over material and stepping on needles and pins , Timothy  has decided that enough is enough! So the cement mixer chap arrived and now we have a base HURRAY!

As you can see the Cosmos is fighting to keep in the picture. Can't wait to redesign the beds in front of the building.

Summer the Jack Russel decides to help out, she had to be quickly bathed before setting!

Just admiring the lovely spot for the Studio. Watch this space for progress I will keep you posted step by step!

Bouquet from the Garden

Picking flowers from the garden for friends is one of the best feelings ever! 

Rollo ready to give flowers to Helen for her birthday, its amazing that a packet of Aster seeds for less than a glass of wine gives you a whole bed of beautiful blooms.

Pick! Pick! Pick!

What a week so many things to pick all at once I am worn out! Have spent most evenings topping and tailing Gooseberries{ Pink and Green!!}. Raspberries, Strawberries,Blackcurrants,Loganberries. So many courgettes too. We have just eaten so much fresh veg and must have exceeded the 5 a day easily and have had lots of fun picking with our friends. Its so good this time of year but I am quite worried that I have seen the cabbage white butterfly in the garden so the next thing will be pests etc. oh well its never the same as the last year and I suppose that's the joy of gardening....  You must take a look at my web site as Christmas isn't far away I have been very busy this week making Garden Aprons and Smocks, so satisfying to think they will be used by other people as passionate about their garden as I am. Also I package everything up so its a real experience just to receive the parcel! www.pinksandgreens.co.uk. Love to have your feedback!

Amanda chilling after a hot morning fruit picking

Rollo trying not to eat them all as Pink are much sweeter!

Kate preparing and weighing.

Sweet Williams for Sale!

My first flowers of the year are put out on the side of the road today! All very exciting as I had sown these last season and had to wait all this time to behold their glory. Taking my flower snips and Spring Green Twine I thought I would just gather six bunches and see how they go,  We haven't put the stall out yet so they are hopefully going to stay upright in their galvanized flower buckets. The fragrance is gorgeous and colours so vibrant makes you feel happy to be alive.

Here's a picture of them in the veg patch I have also got quite a few in the flower garden!

Damian The Sheep Shearer

Today the annual event of sheep shearing took place at Rectory Farm.  Our six girls had there hot fleeces removed to reveal skinny bodies underneath and much relief as the cool breeze washed over them!
Damian is so good with them and checks them over for any signs of problems, one sheep is getting a bit old so no more lambs for her, but apart from that they are looking good. Timothy gave the lambs a pedicure whilst they waited for their mums to be shaun.  We have put the fleece on the verge free to a good home.  Last time we did this a lady came back with a couple of egg cosy hats that she had knitted from the wool. She took it home and washed it in the bath then spun the fleece, amazing.

Damian our trusty shearer!

Tim giving a pedicure

One sheep seems to come back to find her coat!

Potatoes!

Last night I thought I would just check out the potato situation in the Vegetable garden. Low and behold small gorgeous new potatoes fell off the fork onto the grass path. The best sight on a warm balmy June evening. We gobbled them up for supper leaving just enough for Timothy to share at the pub later that evening (showing off that we had a first in the group!!), we had been brave enough to plant them on Good Friday and are now rewarded. Can't say the same for the rest of the veg. but it will come along in time.

Josh in the Man Apron

Here is Josh, came over the other night so I collared him to try on my new Apron, same styling but with a plain edge and small bake lite buttons from the 1940's . Josh is our Godson and is now a landscape Gardener, he came to Timothy Garden Design (my Husband Timothy's business) for a school placement and loved it. Well I think he looks just the part in the Apron, £28.00 made of hard-wearing 100% cotton twill with the usual handy pocket with 4 compartments for all the stuff you carry about in the garden.  Can't believe what I have in mine so many bits and pieces, mainly seed packets with a few seeds in the corner, lots of off cuts of twine, a few sweets, flower snips which I must confess I use for everything, mobile phone, gloves and quite often a trowel, always my mini dibber and a pencil. Let me know what you have in your garden apron pocket!

Today Mandi who helps us in the garden lost her phone, we all searched high and low but nothing. Poor Mandi was getting quite upset and thought she had lost it so we phoned her number and could hear that it was on the lawn, eventually after many calls it was located at the bottom of the trug full of weeds!! She should have put it in her apron pocket!