Hello, flumpy from Bristol UK! Pat lives in new South Wales in Australia (South East). That cream flower is the first new flower on my Xmas present of a Phaelopsis orchid which I had as a Xmas present last year. It has just finished flowering and started again.
Hooray it is raining in Bristol, not very hard but it is wet. When i got up this morning and found despite the dark gloomy day it was the garden was still bone dry I despaired before the drought forecast for Tuesday of getting any rainwater stored in my butts, but i can hear the steady patter of rain on the lining of the back boiler in the chimney so my heart is singing with hope once more.
Hi flumpy, as Marion said, I live in SouthEast NSW in our version of high country - about an hour's drive from Mt. Kosciusko our highest peak. I've been winging al day today because we didn't see the sun all day (it's now 6 pm)' and a thoroughly miserable day It was. I've been glued to the TV and knitting all day - which I'm sure my doctor would be disgusted about. Never mind, maybe tomorrow I'll make up for it.
I did wonder, a specially when you said it was -7, I thought where does she live, I did know it went that cold over there, I have family in Australia and in Newzealand, my mum and dad was meant to move to NZ when I was one year old but pulled out, I always wondered what life would of been like now, you carry on knitting at least it will keep your fingers warm, what are you knitting? : )
i knit dolls, fingerless gloves, and embroider bags for my lavender. They get sold in the little art gallery where I am a volunteer. Today I was finishing a pair gloves.
Pat. they are lovely. I am sure they sell well. Are you in a tourist district? I took some pics from my back doors of the damp but not damp enough garden. But there are little green tomatoes on the plants in the conservatory which was just reward for my tapping the flower trusses patiently every morning as there seemed to be few pollinators venturing into the conservatory. I bet your lavender field smells delightful.
Hello Marion - yes the lavender does smell lovely. We usually start harvesting at the end of January and it takes weeks - not just the picking but the bunching and hanging!
We do get some tourists, especially now while the ski season is on - which starts early June. I think mostly the people who buy, are locals - but not sure.
your garden look so lovely, and wel done with the tomato pollinating.
i knit dolls, fingerless gloves, and embroider bags for my lavender. They get sold in the little art gallery where I am a volunteer. Today I was finishing a pair gloves.
Hi Pat, awe the are lovely Pat, are they Lavender bags in the bottom picture, I love the smell of my lavender plants mmmmmm : ), Marion your Tomatoes look nice and healthy and your garden Evan in the rain looks good, it's gone dry here again and windy but nice and warm, just been to the garden centre and yes I bought more plants whoops : )
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Flumpy, if you click on Pat's name you will get her profile. She lives in New South Wales.
Good morning Marion.
Hello, flumpy from Bristol UK! Pat lives in new South Wales in Australia (South East). That cream flower is the first new flower on my Xmas present of a Phaelopsis orchid which I had as a Xmas present last year. It has just finished flowering and started again.
Hooray it is raining in Bristol, not very hard but it is wet. When i got up this morning and found despite the dark gloomy day it was the garden was still bone dry I despaired before the drought forecast for Tuesday of getting any rainwater stored in my butts, but i can hear the steady patter of rain on the lining of the back boiler in the chimney so my heart is singing with hope once more.
Hi flumpy, as Marion said, I live in SouthEast NSW in our version of high country - about an hour's drive from Mt. Kosciusko our highest peak. I've been winging al day today because we didn't see the sun all day (it's now 6 pm)' and a thoroughly miserable day It was. I've been glued to the TV and knitting all day - which I'm sure my doctor would be disgusted about. Never mind, maybe tomorrow I'll make up for it.
Hi again flumpy1
i knit dolls, fingerless gloves, and embroider bags for my lavender. They get sold in the little art gallery where I am a volunteer. Today I was finishing a pair gloves.
Pat. they are lovely. I am sure they sell well. Are you in a tourist district? I took some pics from my back doors of the damp but not damp enough garden. But there are little green tomatoes on the plants in the conservatory which was just reward for my tapping the flower trusses patiently every morning as there seemed to be few pollinators venturing into the conservatory. I bet your lavender field smells delightful.
Hello Marion - yes the lavender does smell lovely. We usually start harvesting at the end of January and it takes weeks - not just the picking but the bunching and hanging!
We do get some tourists, especially now while the ski season is on - which starts early June. I think mostly the people who buy, are locals - but not sure.
your garden look so lovely, and wel done with the tomato pollinating.
Hi again flumpy1
i knit dolls, fingerless gloves, and embroider bags for my lavender. They get sold in the little art gallery where I am a volunteer. Today I was finishing a pair gloves.