The gorse is slowly regrowing
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nishatalithaAfter a busy weekend, I am experimenting with embroidery stitches. I have borrowed ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tamarillow's A-Z of embroidery stitches and I have a scrap piece of linen, which I suppose, technically, is a sampler and am trying out a few stitches before I start bl9_knt and purplesparkler's wedding present. I'll get the linen for that next week.
We hadtamarillow's mum and brother up for a birthday lunch yesterday and as part of her birthday present, tamaraillow got plants and transport to and from the Mitre10 Garden Croften Downs. We then weeded the bank and chopped down one of the hydrangas and planted our garden. But first, we composted. We made compost, rather haparzardly, but we made usable compost! It feels very good. There are a few herbs to replace - primarily tarragon and italian parsley, but we're rather pleased with how it looks. The garden is clearly marked off, so if the moron with the weedeater chops down our garden again, I think they should replace the plants!
Today we had three people from church up for lunch. One of them had to hurry off early, since it turned out she was working this afternoon, but the other two, a lovely older coupletamarillow and I have had lunch with before at their place a couple of times, stayed until about three. It turns out that he'd gone to school with maudlinrose's grandfather. Small world.
There was lots of gardening talk and they had a look at our section and were very glad they didn't have to deal with ours, with its steep banks and lack of topsoil. Not much they could recommend that would plant well, save for three things I refuse to plant - gorse, convuvulis and oxalis. The best thing would be to stick a lot more top soil and compost up on the bank and dig it in thoroughly, which is too much effort here.
tamarillow's A-Z of embroidery stitches and I have a scrap piece of linen, which I suppose, technically, is a sampler and am trying out a few stitches before I start bl9_knt and purplesparkler's wedding present. I'll get the linen for that next week. We had
tamarillow's mum and brother up for a birthday lunch yesterday and as part of her birthday present, tamaraillow got plants and transport to and from the Mitre10 Garden Croften Downs. We then weeded the bank and chopped down one of the hydrangas and planted our garden. But first, we composted. We made compost, rather haparzardly, but we made usable compost! It feels very good. There are a few herbs to replace - primarily tarragon and italian parsley, but we're rather pleased with how it looks. The garden is clearly marked off, so if the moron with the weedeater chops down our garden again, I think they should replace the plants! Today we had three people from church up for lunch. One of them had to hurry off early, since it turned out she was working this afternoon, but the other two, a lovely older couple
tamarillow and I have had lunch with before at their place a couple of times, stayed until about three. It turns out that he'd gone to school with maudlinrose's grandfather. Small world. There was lots of gardening talk and they had a look at our section and were very glad they didn't have to deal with ours, with its steep banks and lack of topsoil. Not much they could recommend that would plant well, save for three things I refuse to plant - gorse, convuvulis and oxalis. The best thing would be to stick a lot more top soil and compost up on the bank and dig it in thoroughly, which is too much effort here.
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Date: 2007-09-09 09:46 am (UTC)I think I ought to finish unpacking, first, though.