#firepit #redwine #garden #weekend ... not much more needed to say really ... perhaps just #happy #content 😜
Alan’s growing up so fast, thought best to get a family photo together for the family album! 🌿 #AlantheAgave flower stem is now 2400mm. 🌿 #familyphoto #theygrowupsofast #GoAlanGo #onwardsandupwardsandoutwards #gardenatNo5 #AgavedesmettianaElM
WOW ... if ever I wanted to be a potted plant that would’ve been the time and location @liceu_opera_barcelona in Barcelona!! What a fantastic performance and act reaffirming the value of art, music and nature as a roadmap for life returning bac
The #parthenocissushenryana always holds out until mid June for its beginning of hibernation here at #gardenatNo5 and I enjoy that it prolongs the colours of #autumn #inmygarden #leaves #parthenocissus
Morning garden walks = coffee mugs left around the garden #distractedgardener #forgetfulgardener #mustdoaroundupcollection #gardenatNo5 #gardenmeanders #saturdaymorning
It does make me chuckle when I see my Pinterest emails enticing me with their “We found some fresh boards for you” and they include #MyRedPod 🤣 Sorry to anyone who sees me pop up in any of your Pinterest feeds! 😬 #gardenatNo5 #ilovemypo
Here’s cheers To #worldginday2020 and adding more gin boTTles To The g&T collecTion. Today’s tipple is @imbuedistillery The Journey 👌🏻 #gardenatNo5 #gin #GandT #T #GandTchair #cheers #australiandrygin #australiangin
#AlantheAgave now stands at 2160mm and continues to look like a giant asparagus spear!! 🌿 No changes to the flower stems, just a bit of steady growth this week. 🌿 #GoAlanGo #onwardsandupwardsandoutwards #weeklyupdates #gardenatNo5 #Agavedesmettiana
The delightful #eucalyptuscaesia flower - nature’s tutu dress!! #inthegardenatworktoday #eucalyptus #flower
So, the Communal Perennial Patch V1.0 didn’t quite go to plan. The clay base resulted in a little bit of moisture pooling! 😬 Oh well, just temporarily remove the plants and bring in more steamy soil and organic compost I say, and more gypsum,
Friendly magpie visitor - came, chatted and left after dining on a praying mantis (pictured mid mouthful)! 🤷‍♂️ #gardenatNo5 #magpie #inmygarden
As #AlantheAgave reaches 2060mm this week, today I’m absorbed by the flower bud details and I stand pondering on the bud’s intricacies and all that still lies within it that is to come. Amazing. 🌿 #GoAlanGo #onwardsandupwardsandoutwards
Just some joyful brightness to match the sunny day Glass by Rob Hayley sitting on a @treadsculptures base 😊 #royaltalbotrehabilitationcentre
#avoidingthepostISOcrowds 🌿 Sanctuary, cocooning, garden immersion, selfcare, my happy place ... whatever it’s called, I could stay here and escape the world for a long time! 🌿 #thankful #gardenatNo5 #weekendretreat #happygardener #sanctuary
#facesinflames 😲 I am not alone! 🔥 Daytime firepit time hitting the spot after finishing the gardening jobs for the day #firepit #gardenatNo5 #succulents #lateautumn
Seems that there is a bit of friendly banter, nah competition, between the plant siblings about who is taller. Let’s just say it’s on like donkey kong between #AlantheAgave and #EmirtheEuphorbia 🙄 🌿 I’ve been measuring Alan’
Jellybean anyone?! #midafternoonsnack #jellybeanplant #sedumrubrotinctum #succulentsinthesunshine #succulent #sedum
Is it a UFO? 🛸 Is it a baby Dalek? No it’s just a 1990’s external garden light pole that is thankfully being removed from a garden project tomorrow!! #beyondexcited #designwhatdesign #ufo #dalek #lookingup
Morning views of #yuccagloriosa and #cupressussempervirensglauca at #royaltalbotrehabilitationcentre #blueskies #lookingup
Fun work day today. Amidst the bare soil a new oversized flower field burst into bloom today in one of my garden projects. Taking a little inspiration from ‘The Little Gardener’ by Emily Hughes the delightful large cobalt blue metal flow