May Flowers

 Happy new week dear readers......we're enjoying our long bank holiday weekend here....i picked a bunch of flowers to put in this big crackle pot in my sewing room......the flowers you can just see through the window are window boxes full of petunias (planted by mr p)......

 ............. lots of gardening and general floral enjoyment going on here.........many of these flowers were self seeded from the original plants....i love the aquilegia and how they pop up all over the place....

 ..............lots of posies too..............here is my new quilt with little applique plums.....

 ..............made with tilda lazy days fabrics and some polka dots and stripes from my stash.....

 .............i am so enjoying mixing these colours and seeing how the patterns blend together....

 ...........just as colours blend in nature..........here's a peek at the cottage garden....

 .........looking forward to the roses opening and lots of alliums too..........

 ................the bees are busy in the foxgloves......can you see the buzzing bee here?.....

 .........and despite mixed weather the pelargoniums i grew as cuttings have now come out of the greenhouse and are in a big pot ready to enjoy their summer outdoors.....

 ..............always inspired by gardens and flowers....here is my project in this month's issue of crafts beautiful magazine here........a little bit of vintage seed packet inspiration and cute radishes.......

 ............it will soon be time for afternoon tea here and we will be having it in a sheltered part of the garden (it's quite breezy in some places today)...........hope you are having a good start to the week everyone......thank you so much for visiting me here and a special thank you to those who take the time to leave me a comment....it's so nice to hear from you and i really do appreciate it.......wishing you sunshine and flowers and lots of crafty inspirations................back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx