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Silver Trails, New Blooms and Barbecue Smoke

1   It’s been a beautiful sunny day and I’ve been tidying up the garden. Lifting the lid on the rhubarb forcer, I found these delicate slug trails which shimmered and silvered in the sunshine. I’m not sure what the surface film was made of, webs perhaps.

Slug trails

Looking down into the terracotta rhubarb forcer onto the film with silvery slug trails

2  The purpley-blue of these little flowers is very beautiful. (I can’t remember the name and the label has gone. Help please?)

Blue star flowers

Blue star flowers

3   The smoke may not be beautiful but to have our first barbecue tonight was!

Barbecue smoke

Barbecue smoke with Berberis behind

 

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Wedding Run-through, Planting Courgettes and A New Wall

1    I spent the morning at a run-through of the Humanist Wedding I’m doing on Sunday. The whole Ceremony is going to be so beautiful – the vows written by the couple themselves, the readings they’ve chosen and the song, “Make you Feel my Love” – recently sung by Adele, but originally a Bob Dylan song – that a friend is singing for them and all in the most beautiful setting, Treassowe Manor, one of Cornwall’s Listed Buildings.

This is where the Ceremony will take place.

2    I’ve made a heap of compost and planted just one courgette plant and three seeds. I’m hoping the slugs will find the heap hard to climb!

Courgette protected from the wind

3   From the rubble our beautiful new wall is growing!

The old concrete is dug up and piled up

The new wall is growing – another new planting opportunity!

 

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