Spring has sprung

I love Spring and getting out into the garden. This year my Weeping Cherry looks the best it's ever looked. My weeping peach doesn't have as many flowers but the color is so vibrant.

  

 

I planted 3 camellias along my back fence - an Emperor of Russia, Carolyn Tuttle and Jennifer Susanne. They look great have already have lots of new buds.

I love gardening and had fund planting my new trees. Unfortunately my great gardening effort wasn't without incident - I had another fall which left me rather battered and bruised. I had a wonderful black eye that gave great color to my right eye and the side of my face. I have a suspected small crack in the scaphoid of my wrist and also have a another broken bone in my foot. This fracture in my 4th metatarsal (the last was in my 5th metatarsal) happened before the fall but wasn't diagnosed until I had a bone scan to see what was causing the pain in my foot.

My hand is doing well and the black eye has cleared up. My right foot however, has been reacquainted with the CAM boot. Cam boot and I are working on improving our friendship. Its definitely a dislike/tolerate relationship which needs lots of work.

Just for fun: I had a sit on Andrew's new John Deere tractor (yep with my broken hand and foot!)

I love spring and the flowers it brings

Spring has to be my favourite time of the year. The weather is warm but not too hot and everything is still green before the summer comes and dries the grass again.

I love being out in my garden. It's only small but I find pottering around and pulling out weeds really relaxing.

Yesterday I potted up some vegetables for summer. I planted a pot of mixed lettuces, cucumber, pumpkin, beetroot, rolly polly carrots and a couple of tomato plants. Last year it was nice to be able to go out side and pick fresh lettuce so hopefully this year the plants will grow well and I'll have a lots of vegetables to pick from.

My little potted veggie patch

Some of my favourite flowers in my garden.

Spring is here

I can't believe how fast this year has gone. Just in time to welcome in Spring my Weeping Peach and Weeping Cherry trees came out in bloom on the 1st September.

I've had the last four days at home sick with a sinus infection. With all the time at home I've been doing a lot of sewing. I've cut the template for quilting circles on Jake's quilt and started stitching around the first circle. I have finished all the blocks on Hannah's quilt but had to order a bit more material for the boarder and binding. Hopefully that will arrive this week and I will be able to finish the top ready to quilt.

As the tops of the quilts are finished I have now started working on Sarah's. I like to have a quilt that I can take with me when I go out to appointments or to Brink, my craft group. I've cut all the cardboard templates and material so am ready to tack the material onto the templates. I haven't worked with chenille before so am finding little bits of fluff all over me and the couch!