We have a beautiful purple Lupin plant in our garden and I noticed last year that after the petals flower, they turn into pods and, over time turn black, so this year I decided to research what this process was and realised that each pod houses seeds – what an amazing cycle!
Charlie, my eldest, noticed this too so we collected all the black pods and put them in a pot and sat down at a table to open them. He was amazed that there were seeds inside. It was such a nice calming activity to do together and once all the pods had been opened and the seeds collected we put them in little envelopes which we used rubber stamps to label.
The plan is to then sow these seeds next Spring and hopefully we’ll have a few more Lupin plants for the garden. I hope they work, as we’ve got so many we’ve decided to give them as little gifts to family and friends too, so if nothing happens that will be a bit of a disappointment/letdown!
Hello! Wow it has been quite some time since I’ve been on here, it’s safe to say this blog has been a little neglected this year, I think multiple lockdowns, working, looking after two little ones and a new puppy meant that something had to give and it was this. I regret not being able to make more time for this blog though as the whole reason I started it was to have a creative outlet for myself to mentally escape to all of my favourite things and at times I really needed it, instead of wasting time endlessly scrolling my Instagram feed for some escapism – writing and researching my own loves would have been just the medicine.
As I’m sure has been the case for many of you, 2021 has been just as crazy as 2020, but hopefully, now nearly at the end of July we’re starting to see a fall in Covid cases and hopefully life will start to get back to some sort of ‘normal.’ Another summer has come around with no holiday abroad, if i’d have known two years ago when we were in Menorca that we wouldn’t return until 2022 (fingers crossed) I would have definitely stocked up on my Avarcas! We’re very lucky though as my in-laws live in Pembrokeshire so we’re escaping to the Welsh coast for a couple of weeks in August, which is more than some people are able to do so I’m very grateful.
September is going to be busy with my eldest starting in reception and my littlest starting at pre-school so I will be navigating their settling in sessions and hope that it goes smoothly so the rest of August will be spent preparing uniforms and school bags. I’m excited for their new adventures but sad that they’re growing up and I won’t get to spend so much time with them.
I’ve been making notes of all the posts I want to write – everything from my journey with growing flowers from seed, to my current wardrobe wishlist, so I hope to update this space once, if not twice weekly with ideas that you’ll hopefully be interested in too. For now though I’ll leave you with a picture of our Puppy, Poppy, who is now 8 months (this is when she was 9 weeks old) and a big reason for my lack of posts, good job she’s cute! See you soon. x
