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Another rainy day here today.
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| Cosmos seeded itself |
Luckily yesterday and the weekend was sunny as I had a job to do. I needed to move as many plants as possible from where the extension is going to be.
I also took cuttings from the lilac, holly, hebe and pyracantha in the hopes they will take and I will be able to plant them in the front garden when all the work is done.
As you can see Lucy found the sun and decided to sleep on the garden table.
My Tweedy Flower Press from the 1970's. It still had flowers inside, so I carefully took them out and decided to put in some new ones.
Earlier in the month I had a play at Hapa-zome I saw a little bit about it on Alys Fowler's Edible garden. I think I will have to have a little play with the technique. I think these Hydrangea flowers would do really well.
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| after bashing the leaf but with the leaf still stuck on |
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| rub off the leaf and hey presto! The poppy seed heads look like alien plants!  |
I've just been through the last few posts I missed..its a travelogue! Fantastic tours of places you've been and lovely photos to make me want to go too! I went to Haworth today and forgot my camera!
ReplyDeletelovely photographs, especially of Lucy.
ReplyDeleteThats the trouble with 'sorting' out some places! I also get side tracked with things I find. It makes a job more fun though...xxx
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tracey.... it takes for ever to sort through thing!!! :) Have a good weekend x
ReplyDeleteLucy is a very photogenic cat, isn't she?
ReplyDeleteGosh, I haven't dried flowers since I was at school ... good luck with the hydrangeas.
Love Kathy xxx
oohh what a lovely sunny post and a grey day - thanks for that :-) Love the flowers you are going to press.
ReplyDeleteI used to love pressing flowers - must dig out my flower press. xxx
ReplyDeleteI remember those flower presses:) I once found a pressed flower in the pages of an old book - it is a lovely thing to do:)
ReplyDeleteThat leaf print has come out beautifully, what an interesing idea - I saw it on a nother blog a while ago but thank you for posting a link to a document. The neighbours will think I'm even more mad if I start bashing innocent plants with a rubber hammer though, I'd pictured myself trying it out outside on a sunny day, perhaps I'd better try it the privacy of indoors. The hydrangeas look so pretty just as they are, all in rows, hope they press well. I used to have a wooden flower press from the 70s too with a big Mary Quant style daisy on it! xx
ReplyDeleteyour cat resembles mine...love the colors of these cats!
ReplyDeleteI adore that image of the little hydrangea flowers in rows, all ready to be pressed. Their colours are subtle and beautiful.
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