Trelawnyd is quieter today.
Well it is, down beyond the lane.
You can still hear the rumble of traffic on London Road, but it feels muted, allowing for bird song to filter through as well as the cried and shrieks of the children over in the school.
I’ve walked the dogs down the lane to Graham’s fields and house martins ( only 6 of them mind you) are swimming the grass tops for insects.
Through his fringe Roger is watching them and he sits.
I pick lumps of moss from inside the dry stone wall of the field which I shall mulch around the stems of the geraniums.
Red geraniums are Spain to me
Of well looked after window boxes and of cheerful happy days of bright sunshine .
They lift the cottage out of its Welshness
And hint at a woman’s touch.
The old fragrant roses I planted a few years ago are doing well. The glorious yellow of the 1940s Ice Cream that my friend Colin gave me for my 60th hints at its vintage scent as does the Raspberry Ripple on the back garden arch
I’m making proper Chinese chicken and sweet corn soup for supper and have cut more yellow hawkbit from the lane to mix with Albert’s old catnip flowers as I let the stock stand .
It’s good to have sun on my face
Back in the days when I would have planters on my balcony, I always filled them with red geraniums -- one of my most favourite flowers! And they bloom well into the fall too, which is a bonus.
ReplyDeleteThey will go,on through winter me thinks now
DeleteIt's a good year for flowers. Those red Geraniums are beauties.
ReplyDeleteThey are in reality weak little plants , fingers crossed x
DeleteYour red geraniums are a symbol of luck in relationships - so it is said - The birds have brought a gift of a huge passion flower rambling in my garden - Which I'm a little apprehensive about x 💐
ReplyDeleteI will reserve judgement
DeleteThe color in your garden is beautiful. Everything is thriving well.
ReplyDeleteAll down to Janet and I’m remembering to water everything
DeleteA beautiful word portrait of early summer in Wales. I love the idea of red geraniums, creating a hint of hot sunny Spain. I wish geraniums did better here--too much salt in the air, too humid? We have scads of blue hydrangeas tho, so beautiful.
ReplyDeleteShould you trim Roger's bangs, poor little man? My long bangs constantly annoy me.
They both have been booked for proper haircuts
DeleteRed geraniums hint at a woman's touch? What a strange thing to say! Masculine me has several pots of them every summer!
ReplyDeleteIf you were a guy you’d have a name?
DeleteLee
Lol you are like a terrier Lee
DeleteI could be Tom Dick or Harry, what does it matter? It's just a comment on a blog. nothing to get your underpants in a twist about.
DeleteI think you are more like a Dick to me
DeleteLee
Lol the BEST LINE OF THE NIGHT !
DeleteJust as expected Lee as you're such a clever dick yourself.
Delete"clever dick" - a person who annoyingly tries too hard to impress with their cleverness.
DeleteWise guy, braggert, big mouth.
Your garden is looking beautiful
ReplyDeleteThe roses are exquisite
Siobhan x
Thank you deArheart
DeleteEverything in your garden is looking lovely and healthy. I love roses, but they have to be fragrant. I don't understand why people would want roses with no scent. That wren is so sweet. A perfect present. Hmmm, my birthday soon, maybe a few hints to my children is on the cards! xx
ReplyDeleteI have a climbing rose above the front door, which shares its bed with fragrant honeysuckle , that has to be non scented
DeleteBeautiful photos and beautiful words. - Jackie
ReplyDeleteTa much Lu Jackie xx
DeleteYour life ebbs and flows and I always love how you describe your ebbs, the quiet, non showy times. Those when you deal with life all on your own
ReplyDeleteOh Eponiné
Keith
Xx
If eponine was an overweight gay man in his sixties ..Frances Ruffelle I’m not lol
DeleteSunshine always makes me feel better too.
ReplyDeleteJanet has very classy taste. We’ve been talking about getting some geraniums for the terrace. A neighbor had some for years and they were so lush and perfect we grew convinced they were fake.
ReplyDeleteYou can’t forget the smell geraniums have ,are you Spanish enough to only have the red ones
DeleteNot a chance. We just love geraniums. Red is what our neighbors had. We had two huge pots on the low columns on our front porch in San Diego. Maybe magenta?
DeleteMagenta ? Is red lol
DeleteNo way! Magenta is... magenta.
DeleteDon’t start discussing colors with me, though. SG and I stood outside our new house in San Francisco with our realtor. SG said the house was mustard. Our realtor thought it was salmon. I explained to them both that it was greige!
DeleteMy husband and I had a conversation in which I was trying to explain magenta to him. It is primarily violet with red mixed in.
DeleteLovely bright geraniums and a joufully colorful and fragrant garden. Lucky you!
ReplyDeleteanother post for your boook, too.
Hugs!
I have a set of dishes with red geraniums on them. I enjoy them every time I take a plate or cup out of the cupboard.
ReplyDelete--Bonnie in Minneapolis
Love that , would love to see them
Deletehttps://www.replacements.com/china-block-geranium/c/5964
DeleteThe art is sort of casual, like a watercolor. I first saw them in the early 1980s in a local dept. store. The elevator opened, and even though I wasn't looking for china, I thought, "there are my dishes!"
Yes they look 1980s . I prefer the plates all in green
DeleteLooks and sounds like summer.
ReplyDeleteNot as chic as your place ms moonx
DeleteOh but John- you have only seen bits and pieces of it.
DeleteI was in a local nursery earlier this week and they had geraniums of all colors as far as the eye can see. My favorites are the ruffely Martha Washington variety.
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Deletehttps://adamsfarms.com/gardentips/martha-washington-geraniums-care-info/
I love geraniums, and they smell lovely. Geranium oil is actually good for the skin too.
ReplyDeleteI hate the smell ….old ladies sunrooms
DeleteGeraniums were 'the' summer flower to have on the porches when I lived in Chicago.
ReplyDeleteFrance loves Geraniums. They are in borders, fancy pots, and even old baked bean tins. And red is the preferred colour. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI have red geraniums too and they brighten everything and remind me of summer holidays. I grow them with white and lobelia and surfinias.
ReplyDeleteI loved sharing in your description of the flowers and birds. And I have also turned my face in joy to the sun.
I love geraniums particularly white ones. I have red and pinks too. I bought some recently that said they were violet, still yet to flower so I have to wait and see.
ReplyDeleteRed geraniums always remind me of Arezzo in Italy and the wonderful frescoes in the church and the old ladies out with their watering cans watering their geraniums on the steps up to their doors. Blissful memory x
ReplyDeleteLove the little wren. My son got me a hummingbird with like a little vine. Kathy
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