Walnuts!

A few years ago our eldest son returned from a trip to Germany with the TA. He told me he had a present for me. It was a pocket full of walnuts. He knows I like to grow less common trees

They were duly planted them and two walnut trees grew. They were planted out into the garden in the wild area and left to get on with life. I think our son hoped to eventually get some walnut timber for a gunstock but today I saw these!

I don't know why I should be surprised that a walnut tree should have walnuts? Perhaps it is because the mulberry tree has never produced any mulberries!

Both trees seem to have quite a few nuts on them. Wonder if the red squirrels will go for them?

The garden before we got some rain

We have had a decent amount of rain over the last few days so everything is beginning to look lush again. These pictures were towards the end of a long spell of dry weather. As soon as the sun returns I will take some more. The dampness has released the scent of the philadelphus Belle Etoile. It has the same heaviness as the smell of lilies . In the evening it seems even stronger.

Stash busting!

Trying to get the fabric mountain down a bit whilst mulling over other ideas at the moment.

First some flannelette pillowcases with cotton cuff and trim. This was to try out the ingenious pattern that only uses one seam to join the cuff and trim with no raw edges. It works beautifully!
As I said this is stash busting---------the GDs approve of these colours :o)))



Then a trial attempt at a Japanese knot bag-again very easy.



Lastly a little pouch to hold all the memory sticks for the Bernina. The dangles on them are so that I can remember which is which.


The fabric mountain isn't lowered much. Guess that machine is going to have to keep humming away.

Hidden in the spirea!

This shrub is flowering profusely at the moment





------ but hidden by all those flowers are these hungry little youngsters!

Rosie met a hedgehog!

It was lucky that I found the Night setting on the camera and even luckier that I pointed in the right direction as it was pitchblack out there tonight!
We used to get hedgehogs in the garden every year . This is only a small one so hopefully we are getting a new family.

We had one a few years ago that used to climb the lower branches of the apple tree to steal apples and then used to roll them away to eat them in peace!