Mum and dads house

Mum and dads house in lovely Derbyshire their adopted cat wants to get in by the fire

Before going to Tatton park on Wednesday I spent Tuesday night at mums and dads so Judith and I could get an early start, Judith is Roberts sister my sister in law. We woke to a dull gray sky followed by rain on and off all day.

Dads beans and sunflowers and his new rose bed

The front of the house

Mum has a variety of lavenders

Dads veg patch with his sweet pea at the back

Baby Hannah

These are the latest photo's of my nieces daughter Hannah having fun with my sister Julie.

Yes at last she is walking unaided, running about all over, now the work begins.

Busy at the shop

It is such a busy time at the moment in the shop with weddings and a good amount of plants to sell. I love the light nights and spend as much time as possible outside. I find dead heading therapeutic and although its a small garden its packed with plants and there is always something to do. I have been cutting away the spent flowers and foliage with the hope of a second bloom. the poppies I cut a few weeks ago are coming again one plant is nearly ready to bloom. We have had a lot of plants at work and it tempting not to buy them all, but if i haven't got them in my garden i cant resist. At the moment I'm filling in the gaps.




Before my day starts at the shop I have to bring the four trolleys out and make the display against the front of the shop. The sun is on the shop all day so the cut flower bunches for sale are left in the shop. It takes a lot of watering at the end of the day but hopefully I will sell a lot throughout the day.




Just a few of the bridal work I have been doing this week.

July garden

Roberts three teared pot growing nicely.

I was a bit worried back in spring as I cut back the passion flower really hard and thought I had gone to far, but as you can see its OK. Robert has now tided it up and we can see out of the window now. The hanging basket is full of cherry tomato's we just need them to ripen.

This is my new David Austin rose hopefully it will grow up the wall, it has a lovely smell.

church wedding

We had a big wedding in our church two weeks ago these are some of the photo's. Its a real pleasure to do the arrangements for the church family. There are a lot of faithful helpers and we all work to gather well.