Green Thumb Sunday May 27th

I'm absolutely thrilled with my flowering yucca. It looks so beautiful i can't help admiring it every time I go outside or look out of the windows. Especially when the light catches it in a certain way!

My chives are also flowering. I know I should remove the seed heads but they are so pretty. The garlic chives are coming up well but are not really photogenic right now.


I have a challenge for everyone....help me name my new gnome! I bought him on my trip to Leeds to visit Talj. I liked him because he's reading book and I'm a librarian. I'd love a really suitable name for him so I thought I'd ask for ideas.


Talj gave me a container of salad leaves she has grown but has no room for plus a sage plant in a beautiful blue pot. I'm looking forward to eating home grown salad! Do you pick the leaves by hand or cut them with scissors? And will they grow up again? (I've never grown salad before!)
Hope everyone has a happy gardening day. Forecast here is for wind and rain so I doubt I'll be able to get outside much :(

Duck and basil

Basil from Talj

Talj grew this basil from seed for me and she's decided he is old enough to leave home and move to Helsby.I hope he settles down here ok and is happy being at ground level instead of viewing the world from his 6th floor balcony!

Talj and I went to B&Q for some ivy and fuschias and while we were there I spotted this sad little face peeping out at me...couldn't resist him so now he's sitting on my deck!

The acer is infested with greenfly which may be why it's not been looking too happy. Have sprayed it so fingers crossed...

Pot lady

I bought this little person when at a garden centre in Leeds with T. I thought it was a male person but T said definitely female and that she looked like me; I cannot really see the resemblance at all...

Below are the grasses now planted in their pots....





I love my big glazed ceramic ball (behind the pots). I keep meaning to get another one.