Jessie returned to her Primrose Hill home this morning.
A warm breeze swept the garden as I walked around with my camera this afternoon.
Mat and Becky gave us the bigger owl in this picture some years ago. I bought the pedestal from Molly’s Den and the leaden hat from a First Gallery Christmas exhibition. Including the one on the wall these are just three of the
100+ owls which can be found around the garden.
Other birds include ceramic white doves and various examples in coloured glass;
two others join an owl at the feet of Florence sculpture bought at the long gone Molly’s Den.
The Water Boy was found in bits in the undergrowth covering the south end of the garden; the frogs a little nearer the house;
the butler sinks, painted peeling blue by our predecessors, lay full of weeds in the middle of the Dead End gravel path – I moved them to their current position.
We have a number of ladybirds and various dragons.
The curlicue resting on mossy stone is a collapsed plant stand; we inherited the wheels form our predecessors; the tortoise was a present from Shelly and Ron;
Becky gave Jackie the bull head sculpture fixed to the shed wall; I
gave her the pig (galvanised container came from the Efford Recycling Centre when it was simply the Council dump);
Elizabeth gave us the wooden poppy when our granddaughter Poppy was born. It stands in the Rose Garden where
the Summer and Autumn lichen-covered sculptures span one of our reflecting mirrors;
the hanging trowel and wooden mushrooms were presents from me;
the fairy light feature given by Jessie some years ago has lost its original illumination so Jackie has rigged up a solar powered alternative.
Gardening is not just about plants.
This evening we reprised yesterday’s roast lamb meal with fresh vegetables.
