Granny's in the garden

I didn't see you lurking in the bushes, gracesmum. You've just described my day.

Lovely! (flowers) I hope you enjoyed your gin and bathwater!

Oops - I am out of touch! I meant !

gm

That's true, gracesmum

You painted a lovely picture gracesmum
I had a gardening day yesterday too.....but it was spent reparing a broken and almost falling over fence. (I wonder what rhymes with drill?)

I did end the day with something white and beginning with 'V' though.

Am trying to pluck up energy to get back into the garden, made me smile - it paints a picture of me.

I was all ready to go out and spend the afternoon in the garden then found that the cordless hedge trimmer had lost its charge; so plan B was to sit in a chair with my Kindle and watch the sheets drying in the sun. BUT a thoughtless b**** has started a bonfire so that I've had to bring in the sheets and put away the chair. Guns spiked all round. And it's not as if the offender couldn't see my washing line.

It isn't as if we didn't have large green wheelie bins for the disposal of garden waste that won't compost easily! Mine was full of rose and buddleia prunings last week and when the trimmer is charged there will be lots of stuff to put in it.

Now the bonfire's died down but it's left behind a nasty smell. I wonder what he was burning/cremating!

notsothrill or bill?

Why do I always get a hole in the same place in my gardening gloves (middle finger of right hand)? And why do I always get a nettle sting through it?
All starting today here, gardening, the sound of the first two-stroke in spring and muck-spreading. Poo....

Granny's in the garden
Hear her moan and groan
Feeling pains in muscles
Didn't know she owned
Would I like a tea, dear?
Oh that would be nice
And a shortbread biscuit?
No need to ask twice.
Can I do a bit more
Will the thighs hold out?
Maybe it is getting cold
Too cold to hang about?
But it will be worth it
All this pain and toil
When the border's finished
"Daughter of the soil" [halo] emoticon

gracesmum - So talented!

grace x 2

Smashing!

Granny's in the sitting room,
Looking at the sun,
Trying to differentiate
Which flower's day is done.
Head upon the cushions,
Feet upon the stool,
Granny's called the gardener-
She's an horticultural fool.

True, though!

Granny's in the lounge
Feeling very glum
Wishing she' been out
Sitting in the sun.
Rain on next day
Weathermans just said
Reckon that this granny
Will spend the day in bed!

Galen...or a thrill with Bill?

No, I'm too over the hill
Would probably make me ill
I'd have to take a pill
Of that I've had my fill
No longer got the skill

Enjoyed your poems so much so I'm sending you a virtual present of a box of Granny's Bonnets for your borders

Flowering currant is in flower.
The apricot has a few flowers on it! I've spoken sternly to it and told it its too early, it'll get frosted but like everyone else, it takes no notice of me
Wonder HRH has any more luck talking to his plants?

In my last garden, I planted three dwarf apple trees. When there was a frost one night during blossom time, I rushed out and covered all three with horticultural fleece. They looked like three wee ghosts standing out there, but I did manage to get some apples off them, particularly the Grenadier cooking apple.