The good life mum: June 2014

This week i am gathering a few seeds up from the spring plants ready to take to hopefully our new home to plant. These flower skeletons are tiny and their seeds smaller still.

One plant that i wanted to experiment with this year is grasses i have grown a few but this is my favourite called a bunny tail. I really am loving this grass with its plump fluffy head that moves so well in the gentlest of breezes, and i am planing to grow swathes of them next year, in the meadow.

I also like wildflowers and any pretty weed in fact and this beauty is a knapweed another addition for the meadow planned. I love how frothy and pink its flowered top is sitting upon a structured detailed spiky bulb, it is like a crazy hat or hair. Finally with all this hot weather and sunshine our sunflowers have been going mad and are so tall they are peeping over the neighbors fence, we had our first flower bloom and behind this flower on the same stem are 5 other flowers waiting to pop out.

Plants are not the only busy things in my garden the birds are flitting and flying about, our Robin family is doing well and the robins visit us every day, as do our troop of sparrows that started as only 3 5 years ago and are now 20 strong i love listening to them in the bushes. Our Bird feeder is really a hive of activity and i have really grown to love the birds and want to build upon what i have started with attracting the birds and for our new house i want to do even better seeing as it is so rural and see what else i can attract and have my eye on a fly through feeder as when we looked at our visit we saw loads of finches and tits. The starlings have just started bring their fledglings out to our feeder to and they are so funny as they are really clumsy and very noisy, you always know when they come to the garden as 40 will decend in one visit poking through the grass and squawking at their parents. I think flowers and birds are my guilty pleasure.