It's been a busy day - all morning sweeping, tidying, last minute weeding, more sweeping - then all afternoon chatting to visitors doing the rounds of open gardens in our village...very enjoyable though. There's such a lot to learn from more experienced gardeners.
At the Gardeners' World exhibition my sister bought me a couple of plants as a very early birthday present, one of which is called indigofera. It's very pretty with finely cut leaves and pink flowers - looks a bit like vetch. We'd never seen it before. I read the label and pronounced it indigo (like the dye) fera...until one obviously knowledgeable lady who visited today talked about the indi gofera. Glad she said it before I did!
After the gardens closed at 5 we walked along to see how the well is dressed...something that has recently been started in the village, but keeps with the Derbyshire and North Staffordshire tradition of dressing wells.
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