Gardens and gardening 2021

I hope you don’t mind me sharing this picture, as it’s not my garden, but the field behind my house. My favourite tree. The place I like to come and sit, and get my thoughts together. 

Thats a fairy ring, SiTs favourite! 

Lovely tree x

Hi chellesimo

Of course we don't mind Chelle

That is one serious tree. I'm spoiled in that respect, we have a few serious trees in the fields surrounding my house and I too love to go and take time to spend and relax and lose myself in the surroundings. Wouldn't it be great to have a circular seat right the way round the trunk?

Tvman xx

Hi everyone, gardeners and non gardeners,

I haven't been on much recently, 10 days in hospital with a chest infection that had no symptoms and an incredible jerking problem that means I've thrown countless cups of tea and coffee over myself and the floor, I'm neutropenic every few days also, had to be put in a side ward after day 6 because of neutropenia. 

I have to share with you all a photo of our rose, silver anniversary that we bought 38 years ago. As you can see it's doing wonderfully, such a show of blooms and in the background looking out is our soft coated Wheaten Terrier, Conan, who is possibly looking at either me or enjoying the blooms however I would hazard a guess it's the former.

Take care everyone and stay safe

Tvman xx

Beautiful rose and doggy Tvman. Hope you can get back out there soon.

We had a harvest yesterday. We've already had so much spinach that we're damn near living off the stuff!

Much love,

Stuart x

Lovely picture tvman and a lovely story to the rose it always amazes me how things come back year after year great to have you back and posting again xxxxxxx

Beautiful. I love roses.

so good you are home now xx

Hi Stuart Galilee

A lovely selection of produce, yes, spinach is one of those crops that keeps on giving! Along with runner beans, cut and come again lettuce. It's easy to oversow carrots and if you don't thin out when small then you have intertwined, almost unusable blocks of carrots with spindly roots emerging. Hard to peel too!

I must put a little display on show myself. I've no giant cabbages this year, one single cabbage was used for four consecutive meals. I have sown just a few small cabbages this year, little hispis. 

I've been just as busy in the garden and the plot although of course Mrs Tvman and I constructed the raised beds and the wide paths for my wheelchair. I'm not restricted to the wheelchair at home yet but the way things are going-neutropenic sepsis, neutropenia- I'm maybe starting to venture down a different path soon 

Take care everyone and stay safe

Tvman xx

Hi Tvman, Ruth & everyone, I love roses too and they are exquisite! My mum used to have a rose garden and when we got married & bought our own house, I took a cutting of one of her roses (she had died of stomach cancer by then) with my dad's blessing. Years later we moved to Leighton Buzzard and again a cutting came with us, then again when we moved to our present house (40years ago). It is still beautiful and when we get home from Scarborough, if there are any roses still flowering, I will take a photo and post it here. As you can imagine, it is a Very Special Rose to me!

Hope you are well on the mend Tvman, no more frights please!!