Well I’m now going to be humming “At the Car wash…” for the rest of the day!

I’ve been taking full advantage of my slightly improved health the past few days.

I got to do some gardening the other day, first time in years. It’s amazingly therapeutic, not to mention good exercise.

I found this little Azalea cutting I took last year. I’d forgotten all about it until I noticed that it was flowering. Seems a bit soon to me, it’s still tiny, I didn’t think there’d be any flowers for at least another year, if not a little longer. Now I just need to wait until the flowers die so I can re-pot it in better soil.

We also put this in, it’s a little ladybird house, made from reclaimed trees and wood. There doesn’t seem to be any ladybirds living in it yet, but it’s only been in about a week, so it’s still early days.

We also put in a frog and toad house, we’ve had quite a few frogs wandering about the place the past few years, one of the houses further over seems tohave a pond in the garden they breed in, but they like to wander the rest of the year, so we decided to try and house them, keep them about for slug removal duty.

It’s been a long time since I got to wander around and play with my cameras. I spotted this fly sunbathing on the ivy for most of the day. Either that or it was unconcious and is going to wake up with quite the sunburn…

A new plant we’re trying to find a space for, green leaves with white speckles and white flowers with green speckles… Strange looking thing.

Edit

Here’s the details on the little speckled plant.

And a quick picture of the parent azalea I took the cutting from.