28th SEPTEMBER

 We have a special visitor hanging around near the house today.  A roe deer turned up yesterday evening.

It was raining quite heavily during the night so I was surprised to see her still sitting in the corner of the field when I looked out this morning.  

She saw us looking at her and wandered across to get a better view of us!

I like her as long as she remains that side of the garden fence!

I have enough trouble with rapacious rabbits!!

Andy (my husband) took the photo above ... here is my effort from the same window...

... and this is the reason I will be using Andy's photographs as much as possible in this blog!!  😅

My first job yesterday was to sort out that dangerous leaning urn:

Originally I set out to continue work on the pond area but I have this awful habit of getting distracted ... so I cleared the over grown perennial sweetpeas from a messy corner of the rose bed instead!

This ...

... and this ....

.... became ...

... and ....

The pot contains tulips for a bit of spring colour.

The sweetpeas went to the compost heap.  I collected some of the seed pods because I am an eternal optimist .... Every year I attempt to propogate perennial sweetpeas from seed and every year I fail!

I then moved on to this section of the raised bed.  It is filled with irises, hyacinths, tete-a-tetes and muscari so I placed ten red carnations on top to cheer it up over winter.  

The begonias and geraniums will have to come inside before the frost but they look too good to disturb just yet!

I looked at the pond area for a moment but decided I needed a cup of tea instead!!

Hopeless I know!  My dream garden will just have to wait ... !

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