I expected the rose garden to be lovely in June. I had planned for continuous succession of flowers, but I didn’t realise it would be delighting me quite so much in July. I am taking a ridiculous number of photos. It’s just that there are so many lovely textures. Ticklish ones… Soft, bouncy ones… Bibbly-bobbly…
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I’m not beautiful. I’m feisty.
This is a quote from my step-daughter. To give you some context, we were having a discussion about someone being beautiful. ‘Like you. You’re beautiful.’ ‘No I’m not. I’m feisty!‘ I love this. I love that she chose feistiness over beauty. She is feisty. And beautiful. But she chose to identify as feisty. When I…
The Rose Garden at the end of June
I wrote a post called The Rose Garden at the start of June, so I thought I should write one about it at the end of June. I’ll go around anti-clockwise, the same way I walked last time. Rosa ‘Emma Hamilton’ first. She is lush, isn’t she? You can see how in the bottom right of…
Moody Blues
When I wrote the title of this post, it was because of the colours of the flowers, and the overcast conditions. I got about this many words in, and tried to add images, and that is when my woes began. I couldn’t upload any images. I switched between laptop and phone, I used up my…
The Mindful Gardener 