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  • Lion SLion S Posts: 263

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

  • kate1123kate1123 Posts: 2,815

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

  • sotongeoffsotongeoff Posts: 9,802

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

    There will not be any ironing involved

  • YviehYvieh Posts: 85

    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! image

    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 image.

    Inka, get your camera ready for that Tree Peony!

    Yvie

  • Eddie JEddie J Posts: 108

    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.

    http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/2782/dscf2864z.jpg

    http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/9529/underway1.jpg

    http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/1223/p1110187.jpg



  • kate1123kate1123 Posts: 2,815

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

    Eddie I love the sculptures, do you do commissions?

  • Eddie JEddie J Posts: 108
    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.image

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

    http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/1289/seedone.jpg

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

    http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/548/dscf2798.jpg

    http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/6277/dscf2810m.jpg






     

  • kate1123kate1123 Posts: 2,815

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

  • Eddie JEddie J Posts: 108

    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!

    http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/603/dscf2823v.jpg

  • Eddie JEddie J Posts: 108
    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.image

    http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/889/dscf2492x.jpg


     

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