A rather flooded veg garden
So many months of cold, wet weather interspersed with freezing, dark and snowy days - I am feeling so like a snail right now - head still tucked in, trying to stay dry while the land is soaked, over and over again.
The grass squelches where we walk and there is a small river issuing from the ditch at the top side of the house, which is happily wending its way into the veggie garden and greenhouse. If only I WAS a snail, perhaps I could glide merrily over the surface, rather than sinking into or skidding on the mud that now abounds. Perhaps I would be happy to be in this constant wet weather - not thoroughly fed up with the endless gloom and cold. Will proper springtime ever come?
Hellebores and tete-a-Tete Narcissi in the front garden
Well - yes, it will. Even in this morose weather, the Green Fuse is alight - plants are bursting up out of the mud, there was a dawn chorus worth listening to at the end of last week and - on the principle that it is an ill wind that blows nobody any good - or in my case an ill downpour…the torrents have washed away soil in the ditch at the bottom of the garden and - look what I found this morning!
A large section of what I think is probably a little Victorian terracotta mixing bowl; too small to be a Pancheon - a larger, bread-mixing bowl. I also think that there is more…I can see other fragments of something very close to where this piece was found, but - (intense irritation here…!!) - I can't reach them at the moment!! I'm being prevented from doing so by a water filled ditch with sides too steep to get a purchase upon.
I retrieved the piece this morning with a VERY long handled fishing net, so - as soon as the weather improves and the ditch dries out - guess where I will be looking? Perhaps you can see the other bits still up under the hedge roots? (just above where 'X marks the spot'). As ever...watch this space - who knows what else was tossed away there when broken? - and who knows what else I will discover!!
Love, love, love this, Roz. Even the wet swampy garden pics. What a gorgeous potting shed it must have been. Just makes you itch to plant things, doesn't it?
Posted by: Ardi | Tuesday, April 03, 2018 at 15:21
I do share your excitement about discovering things for oneself. Love the new header.
Posted by: Mad Englishwoman | Wednesday, April 04, 2018 at 09:14