Crocus Time

As September turns away towards October, the crocuses in the greenhouse are just getting into full swing.  Those in the garden have been early this year after a cool, wet summer here but under, where glass they were kept a bit warmer and dry until a couple of weeks ago, the flowering is later.   It's five years since I blipped Crocus longiflorus.  It was a regular blip, always in October from 2012 to 2018.  Todays flower is the first from a batch of seed sown in the autumn of 2020.   

After a lazy start it's been a productive day.   The gutters have been cleaned out - nesting gulls, now departed, make a lot of mess :-/   The big shrub by the front door has been reduced to below the roof line at least and I got a load of laundry dry outside which has been a bit like threading a needle lately!   Mum and Chris had lunch here, I cooked liver and bacon, plus Chris fitted a wooden panel into the hole left in the lower glazed panel of a door when we had a whoops moving furniture in and out getting on for three years ago.   Don't ask how it took so long to get around to getting that fixed!

Pottery this evening.  I started another project, again joining two half spheres.  Think this one will be a vase but I'm never completely sure until I see how these creations look as they develop.   It's wait and see.