quiet paws.

The weather has been getting decidedly warmer of late (at least where I live), and with the heat comes the sights that accompany the summer months…

Flowers are bursting into life and delivering their fragrance into the welcoming arms of the world…(they make the bees pretty happy too).

Trees are becoming heavy with fruit and are then in turn frequented by many feathered and winged visitors who are happy to take advantage of their crop…

Thank goodness for one solemn protector who guards the activities of this blooming, buzzing and fruiting garden with watchful eyes…

As for me? Well happily, my recent love affair with dresses will grow ever stronger as we move towards Christmas and beyond. What could be more appropriate than a brightly coloured floral dress to usher in these blue sky days?

Dress weather has well and truly been declared…

Well after successfully enduring their artificial winter in my fridge for the past few weeks, all the tulip bulbs are now in the ground (or rather, in the pot). I’ve split my divine mix of 45 bulbs through three separate 30cm plant pots. Now they are being kept hidden from the sun while I wait for them to sprout upwards through the surface layer of earth to display their greeny goodness.

In addition to my previous bulb purchase, I forgot to mention the arrival of my most lust-worthy purchase of black tulips a few weeks back… but they’ve also been ‘chilling’ in the fridge (I’m thinking they’re going to look smashing surrounded by a contrasting mix of white, violet and red blooms).

Ten of these lovely ‘queen of the night’ black tulip bulbs (which I purchasead from Van Diemen Quality Bulbs) are now resting patiently beneath the earth ready to awaken in the not-too-distant future and amaze me with their beautiful blooms (well, fingers crossed anyway).