It’s a few days since I last added to my blog. While I’m out enjoying walking &  gardens, I don’t set aside time for typing! Today’s been fine & dry – ideal to cut the lawn. It’s not a thing of beauty but I like my patch of green & so do the birds. Blackbirds spend an extraordinary amount of time searching the lawn for hidden treasure.

My finds of the day have been weeds, bindweed mostly. It has established itself on one side of the garden & despite my best efforts keeps popping up, twining round my favourite shrubs & roses. I have found bindweed is a great source of therapy! Ideal to pull & tug by the roots when frustrated by what life throws at you!

My front garden is also in need of attention. This is even smaller than my patch of grass! Originally this was a small grassed area, sitting alongside a driveway. Other houses in the terrace now have a gravel or tarmac to replace their front lawn. I have another patch of green – ground cover plants! These probably cost  a good deal less than the gravel that adorns neighbouring gardens.

Today I have added another heather to my patch. This one, unnamed, was a bargain find while doing the weekly grocery shop! My 35p heather spent some time by the kitchen door, where I could keep a watchful eye over it. Now it’s joined its big cousins in the front garden. Come the spring I am hopeful it will have built up the energy to reward me with flowers. This is another bonus of using plants versus gravel I have colour in assorted shades of green plus flowers! I admit some of the gravel does also sport a few random plants… These have arrived on the wing! There’s a few dandelions but also a few tree saplings. The proximity of sycamore trees means we often find these grow in the smallest amount of soil, my front garden & even gravelled areas.