money does grow on trees!

I found this money tree at the dump, bought it home and abandoned it for a month or so while I wondered what to do with it...finally planted it - thank God it has survived because my friend told me it could be 30 yrs old or more, it's big, decided to plant it whole and take cuttings to pot up later - it's also known as a jade plant, used in Feng Shui to bring luck and prosperity

Poppies

The wild flower mix I used has lots of different kinds of poppies, single and multilayer and many different colours - all so pretty

wild flowers

Been ages since I've posted any garden pics, my garden's been getting a bit out of control lately...a bit like my life perhaps? but if flowers as beautiful as these can emerge out of the chaos that is my garden right now...then there's hope for me?

another guinea pic

awwwww :-)

getting away on me

The garden has been very neglected lately, which is why I haven't posted much for a while...my neighbour suggested taking pics of other peoples gardens, pretending they were mine, (after all who would know lol)because not much has been growing in mine except for grass...lots of it. I admit I was tempted, but now, having taken a back seat to other things, the garden is overdue for some frantic attention, and when I've made some progress again, I'll post pics of my own garden again (promise ;-). Hoping to have a full time job again soon (cross fingers and toes ) so would love to get the garden into good shape before my time is cut back again. I partly blame the weather for the state of my garden, it refuses to settle into a nice ambience suited to pleasant gardening, Instead, choosing to produce deluges of rain sprinkled between blustering winds. There are a couple of things worth a pic or two though. The sunflowers I planted are doing well and should have a good show in a month or two, and some of the succulents I rescued from the green waste tip are rewarding me by producing brilliant red flowers. Overall the garden is a mess lol with a couple of redeeming features :-)

New Guinea Pigs

Finally...after turning out squillions of rat coloured offspring, we have three new little guinea the colour of caramel, ginger, and honey, so cute I could eat them lol (not really!!!). hard to get a good pic cause although mum left me to it, aunty is very protective. She's due to have her little ones soon, after which they will all be moved to the new home I've been building over the last week or so. Trying not to have anymore babies after this, at least not for a while, so as soon as they are old enough to be weaned, they'll be seperated by gender

Wet and miserable

well the farmers have had enough rain to keep them in grass for some time, so I hope they're happy :-) it's been good rain for down on the farm, the kind of rain that makes grass grow, without causing havoc with floods. It's rained nearly everyday for the last two weeks, and been bitterly cold after a false start to summer a month or so ago...did I really get sunburnt?? Anyway, it's cold and wet again today, and snow has been predicted. This all means that I haven't been getting out in the garden much and it shows. The grass...is growing, it's starting to look quite a mess, and even the guinea pigs can't keep up with it. They are huddled up in their hutches, gnawing on some pumpkin, and I don't blame them. It's not a nice look outside.