July 2026
The flowers here have needed a lot of looking after in the recent heatwave, but worth it to see the colourful sweet peas, revealing new blooms daily in range of heady colours. Most are from saved seed, meaning that there are lots of nameless surprises never ever seen before! The trick is to stop deadheading at the end of summer, in time to let a good number of the pods swell ready for harvesting. Several new cards: three new prams in a variety of colours and a pretty floral
June 2026
Have you looked in The Curiosity Shop lately? (See tab above). It is a shop within a shop where I put mostly reduced price items and a few other things I have made, like photo cards taken in the cottage garden here for instance. I have just added some ‘old stock’ cards at reduced prices, so why not pop in and have a browse! The baby birds here are now appearing, tiny pale bluetits, long-legged speckly robins and screechy young blackbirds ‘parked’ around the garden waiting
