Highlights for April

               

Fields of gold

 I just love where we live to really see the all the changes that the seasons bring are wonderful

 The farm fields where i live are ablaze with rape seed, what a glorious site to see and add a lot of cheer to a school run

 Most of these shots are from the street where i live, to have this on your door step makes me feel very spoilt.

 Imagine living here and opening your curtains to that view, how happy would that make you.

 This lovely house i pass up to 4 times a day doing the school run again i cant believe how lucky we are to have changed our lives and enjoy the country life.

My Entries to Mendham and Withersdale Horticulture show 2015

Well we are bedding into our new lives and love it so much. With our new love for gardening we thought we would enter the local horticulture show for Spring.  Being my first time i was really a dither as to what to do.   We had a brief look at the autumn one and it did look very serious with loads of very knowledgeable people with impressive entries.

So taking as all a bit of fun and to make friends with the locals i put in 4 entries, but there were many to choose from.  The theme unsurprisingly was spring flowers daffs and tulips of varies types, there was flower arranging, miniature arranging, potted plants, baking and handycraft, gosh i cant remember all off the top of my head but that gives you a flavour.

The daffs were categorised and had to have certain measurements in trumpet length and petal length and my head was spinning as i was choosing my entry.  As i was going around the garden measuring petals and trumpets i started getting all judgmental over the lovely yellow flowers gazing up at me, poor things,  no your not pretty enough, your petal is bent, your looking a bit scabby, your not yellow enough, until i got the 3 perfect stems i needed for my entry, it turns out after all that i had put my entry into the wrong category anyway and got NS !!! darn it   But look how perfect the entries are below.  hit the picture to see some lovely daffodil porn.  If you do hop over my entry is the 8th picture and multi headed small daff.

So on to the tulip stage and i have to say last autumn i planted a 1000 bulbs in the garden of which i had a right mix up of tulips but i had 8 stunning tall big yellow tulips at the front of the house so snip snip with my scissors which i was a little sad to do, especially after seeing my neighbors entry who tulips would not look out of place down in covent garden.  Look at these lovelies so red and perfect

So image my surprise when we came in after judging and i saw i got a 2nd i was so pleased.

And here is the winning tulip very pretty red and yellow mix, and my neighbor came 3rd who i thought would win, shows you never can tell.

As said above there was also a handy craft section so i popped in some felted eggs i had made for the Easter branch that hangs over our dinner table, and blow me they won,

My last entry was for ginger biscuit of which you have to enter 4, again i was being so careful to make sure they were the same size, colour, thickness etc and these came 3rd so it ended up being a really great day for us, and our new friends and neighbors said it was great having new blood coming in as to so that's not bad seeing as we are completely clueless up against all these more experienced people around us.  The next horticulture show is in Autumn and Ali is already sweating about his veg and wants a go at the pumpkin queen.

ps hit this picture to see the ginger biscuits
                            

Daffodils

Its spring in full glory and nature is in over drive to show us her beauty after a winter sleep and the wonder of the daffodil has not gone unnoticed.  So here is a little Daffodil porn to scroll through to bring some spring time cheer as you soak in some of that new season sunshine onto your skin.