Cheesecake !

It's National Cheesecake Day (click here) !

A great way to celebrate Summer!

 A few Summer showers, here and there, today!

Hosta 'Plantagina grandiflora' in bloom!

The colour has not been adjusted!

A selection of blue/grey hostas to add to the collection!

Helps to enhance the other hosta colours! 

30C at 9 pm!

Hosta 'Sugar and Spice'

Warmest July 26th ever! on record!

Sew....a needle pulling thread!

 It's National Thread The Needle Day ! (click here)

It's now just before 6:30 am and already 20C!

 I'm trying out an air plant! Solar lighting!

 Hosta 'Frosted June' 

Luckily a few Hostas have adapted to sun! 

 Hosta 'Orange Marmalade' 

See what is in bloom! 

What will be in bloom when Autumn comes?

A moment in the garden!

 It's still warm and sunny!

 The spray painted dried alliums are looking good!

 Hosta 'Fried green tomatoes' 

 These are flowering early!

 Attracting bumble bees!

 And birds through out the coming winter!

 These do well outside!

 Cheery things, they are!

They are available in lovely colours!

Hosta gardens big and small!

Try and stay cool this weekend!

A rainbow !

 Early this morning! Can you see it!

 No rain here though!

 Hosta 'Summer Breeze'

Peacock butterfly !

 Inachis io

Dagpauwoog (NL)

European peacock (Eng)

A great Summer for spotting butterflies!

Measure twice, cut once!

National Tape Measure Day! (click here)

Thanks! What an invention! Sure made our lives easier!

Tape measures can be found through out the home!

 One lives in the kitchen drawer, an assortment in the
 tool department  and quite a few in the hobby room!

The Red Admiral

 Vanessa atalanta

 dropped by this morning!

 must have had a rough day!

The clay has dried! 

More Summer weather!

 The sewing will just have to wait!

 Hosta ' Fire and Ice' being visited by a Bumble Bee!

So many Bumble Bees visiting the garden this year!

 Hosta 'Marilyn Monroe' 

 Hosta 'Fried Green Tomatoes' is in bloom!

A lovely scented hosta!

A rainy day! and 17C!

 It has been a few weeks of warm dry weather!

A good day for a " rainy day " project!

 Can't do this in the winter! 

 Trying modelling clay instead of cement!

 See where it's made? !

 Just like rolling out puff pastry!

 1 package does the trick!

 Roll the leaf onto the clay to transfer vein lines!

 Now we wait!

 What to do with the extra? 

 Today is also a great day for a few garden picts!

Was a great day! Thanks for visiting!

Tomorrow we're back up to 24C and sunny!