I think they look so pretty when falling apart, like a ballerina made of petals.
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Dancing poppy
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New Design – Red Carnation
I’m getting round to uploading all my new designs, there are over 40 new ones for 2021, so lots of new nature patterns coming up! Here is Red Carnation (MKW-VN.755), available on over 90 different products, check them out and see what your favourite is.
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Poppy petal
It rained overnight last week and one of the fallen poppy petals was looking rather pretty in the morning.
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First poppy of 2021
Just one opened first, a beautiful dark purple poppy to give the Bees something extra.
The next day, loads bloomed and by the next day or two mostly gone. But they’re staggered and keep coming so hopefully a bit of brightness for longer.
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Willowherb
I decided to let everything just grow this year and be very minimal with weeding. Nature needs all the help it can get. It’s also making me more interested in what everything is and I’m learning about each plant as it grows and flowers. Willowherb seems to cater for many insects and has super pretty little pink/purple flowers. Also the leafcutter bees have favoured this plant for cutting small holes in the leaves – making me think that’s the reason I haven’t seen a leafcutter bee before, because I kept getting rid of their favourite plant!
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White rose
One white rose in the garden.
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African Daisy Motif – (MKW-VN.675)
I know I say this a lot, but this is one of my favourites. I love them for different reasons, but the brightness of this one is just awesome. A picture of a yellow African Daisy with purple flowers in the background. This make me think of gold on purple velvet which why I love it so much 🙂
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Orchid doing well
The orchid is well and truly revived and has loads of flowers, it’s very encouraging. A very beautiful flower.
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Dandelion
A very underrated flower in my opinion. I thought they were weeds for quite some time, but now I know they really aren’t – or at least they are a useful one. Bees love them, and one flower seems to keep giving for quite some time. The plant is mostly edible. The leaves can be used for salads or cooked and eaten like spinach, the flower buds are good in omelets apparently, or you can put the flowers in cakes. And of course if can be turned into Dandelion and Burdoch, which I remember as horrible drink that my mother used to drink and love. I didn’t even know what burdoch looked like until I started typing this and looked it up – another fantastic ‘weed’ that is even more special. I shall try and find some and do a post about that one too.
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More Muscari
Spring is in full swing, slightly held back by this cold snap we are having now, but over the last few weeks the Muscari (Grape hyacinth) has bloomed nicely and started bringing in the bees. I have planted loads more seeds which are all now sprouting so hopefully soon there will be lots of colour in the garden. Some of the seeds are last years poppies, sweet peas and nasturtium I collected and put aside for the following year – and a new pack of bee friendly flowers, so not sure what else will be coming. It’s that exciting time of the growing season!
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