Turkish delight

A slow start today - quite dull and drizzly to begin with. An excuse to continue the slow creep toward digitised photo slides. Just viewing at the moment and getting rid of the unwanted ones. By 2129 I should be ready to begin scanning! 

I couldn't be bothered to go out this afternoon so Mrs M went down town for a paper. I did some gardening instead for my exercise, planting two shrubs on the bank. Above the house and facing the kitchen window I planted Stephanandra incisa 'Crispa', the dwarf version of a deciduous shrub from Japan and Korea. I'm hoping it will hang over the edge of the  bank and help cover the eroding edge where the slope was cut into to form the platform to build the house. On the bank below the house I put in a Magnolia soulangeana - I should maybe have bought a more exciting magnolia, but this was reduced from £30 to £15 so I couldn't resist it!

Today's Blip is a potful of grape hyacinth -  Muscari aucheri 'Blue Magic'. The original species is from Turkey, though this variety has a white lip to the flowers. A a blind man would be glad to see it!

Quote of the Day:

Lauren Springer Ogden – “Bulbs need so little and give back so much.”