Thanks to our good friend Gerry Hectic who let us know about these cheap bulb packs above that are available in Lidl* now. We like the crocus called “King of the striped” but there are quite a few different packs available. We can’t remember how much they were, as we’ve chucked the receipt out, but we are sure they were around the £3 mark each which is a bit of a bargain. When it was sunnier today we filled a few pots with them and will keep our fingers crossed. Anyone else know any more garden bargains that are about now as we feel a trip to B&Q coming on before the weather gets rubbish.
*Other discount supermarket chains are available.
And as if by supermarket magic we tapped Lidl into Bandcamp and the Lidl Museum of Ancient and Contemporary Art came up and it sounds very much up our street. This is what AI told us about the project:
The “Lidl Museum of Ancient and Contemporary Art” is not a physical museum but an experimental audio tour and cassette release from the Dublin-based collective The Ecliptical Newsletter, inspired by the Lidl supermarket on Aungier Street. The supermarket was built on a site with significant historical layers, including an 11th-century home, a medieval church, and an 18th-century theatre. The audio tour, which features artists like Acid Granny and Robbie Kitt, blends skits, essays on capitalism, and meditations on the site’s history and the company itself.”
More about the ancient ruins in the Aungier Street Lidl at 6.36 below.
A big shout to Rich R who is on his holidays at the moment in Crete and found this rather nice flower called a sea daffodil (AKA white sand lily, amaryllis, lily of Knossos, beach saffron or beach crocus). It’s supposed to have a “pleasing, exotic and very subtle lily scent”. More about the plant 
Debby also has a self-seeded
We’ve got some time off work for a week now and typically there’s a good bit of rain on the way. It’s good for the garden (as it’s parched), the pond (water levels are low) but not for us (lounging around in the sun doing nothing is fun, can’t lounge around in the rain!)
The garden is going to go wild with all this rain and of course mixed with a bit of sun that may come out from behind the clouds this week. Above is a reminder of what plants in the sunshine look like just in case you have forgotten. This is the salvia we got from B&Q a few weeks ago and it’s loving where it is.
Whilst having a cup of tea admiring our good work, we were visited by a fox quickly passing through, two birds including the Robin (top pic) and then a neighbour’s cat came in either for the birds or the bit of catmint we are growing near the pond. We remember years at Shannon’s someone telling us it will bring all the locals cats in. Perhaps they were right?
Weeds up to me knees 