I have finished making things for the CL Fair- I wish I could have made more but I have to stop sometime, I'm not doing that "taking a sewing basket along with me" thing.I am now concentrating on all the things that make a stall look nice.
One of the things that I have been doing today is potting up some unusual spring bulbs.
In the autumn I planted trays and trays of spring bulbs in the hope of having lots to pot up now.
To be honest, it hasn't been a great success. Mice and the unremitting rain saw a lot of them off but there were some survivors.
The photo is of muscari latifolium - basically a grape hyacinth in a very deep blue with a beautiful spathe shaped leaf.
I always think that shape gives a kind of sinister glamour to a plant - I don't know why. The flower hangs around inside the leaf for a week or two then elongates and looks much more like a grape hyacinth.
Bix, our eldest cat, has been supervising the packing up.
3 comments:
Love the grape hyacinth, I'm hoping to get some of them tomorrow (not as fancy as that one - just good old dutch van man ones!) Should really be calling it a day with the sewing too, but you know how it is! We're having a scheduled power cut tomorrow between 9am - 3pm, a blessing in disguise I think!
See you on Wednesday!
L x
P.S. don't suppose you've got a blackboard I could borrow off you?
Sorry Lisa, we seem to be out of blackboards - I even sent Euan to IKEA to buy one but no luck - I thought that they did mini school slate ones but seemingly not.
Happy shopping for the bulbs - I got some bog standard grape hyacinths there for the barrels.
J
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No probs - I'll see what I can find, if I can find more than one I'll bring one along for you!
L x
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