This morning we wandered around the garden with the watering can and spotted these carrot flowers from plants that were sown in a large pot (found down the road with a “please take me” note on it) up near the house. They’ve got strange old graphic type flowers. Architectual flowers for a Lldl budget?

We then found a sprig of lemon thyme growing out of a strawberry terracotta planter (also found on a wall to be thrown out). We did have a bigger plant in one of the beds but it just didn’t make it through the winter this year but this spindly thing did! Lemon thyme works well on roast chicken and we’ll be feeding this plant with comfrey liquid) to see if we can make it grow more as we have culinary plans for it.

And while watering the wild bit at the bottom of the garden, we found the old slow cooker container that is now a micro-wild pond and also an overflow for plants that have been thinned out from the big pond. There’s some water mint, hornwart and even a water lilly and the actual container isn’t even that big.

Enjoy this great weather and as the late great Joe Maiden used to say, it’s better to water early in the morning then the evening. Watering in the evening only invites the slugs and snails and you don’t want that.

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