SUMMER IS HERE!!!

Summer is definitely here !!!! We have had a few days of rain last week. Although the garden do need it but living in a country with all the four seasons seems to make us think that it is our "right" to have some warm and dry weather - like we have earned it somehow by putting up with three to six months of freeziing and damp weather.

As this week the weather forecast is a bit better I have taken the opportunity to start planting out all my plants (which I have grown from seeds) on the border of my garden although this year they all looked like seedlings rather than plants. This is how Mother Nature works. She does these things and get your attention that life isn't always perfect - and it should be. I don't think I have did anything different to them as my father in law is having the same probelm. He should know as he has been my "teacher" and still is. Very reluctantly, 14 years ago - having moved to the UK and "inherited" a big garden from him - I have started gardening. I was reluctant because everything, every plant that I try to grow before then died on me. No matter what I do they just failed to survive. I even nurtured a weed happily thinking that I would have some lovely fragrant basil leaves over my pasta until a friend pointed it out one evening.

So now, 14 years later, at least I can differentiate a weed from a plant - great progress, for me. I have figured out the "art" of gardening. You see, if I stick to plants that won't die on me I have 100% success and don't seem like failure. I think that is a good way of self encouragement.

Well time wait for no one as they say. I am heading out there in the wild again in the hope that I will have a colourful and thriving garden to enjoy the summer breeze - when my jobs are finally done !!