Pan guards the entrance
flowers celebrate wildness
and happy buzzing bees
The little stone statue of Pan was found in a reclamation yard many years ago, and then found again yesterday whilst I was weeding, hidden under some rampant aquilegias. I thought he would be better placed guarding the fairy entrance to the underworld under the oak tree, but first he had a job to do – modelling as the prop for this week’s In a Vase on Monday, hosted by Cathy at Rambling in the Garden. Pop across for a gorgeous floral feast and a tour of gardens across the world.
In the Vase: lavender, birdsfoot trefoil, cerinthe, lychnis, alchemilla mollis, and a purple thistle-flowered weed that I don’t know the name of, much loved by tiny bees.
My Flower of the Day is the BFT
with its tiny visitor
I’m staying in the garden to show you my EOMV hosted by Helen, The Patient Gardener
Still lots to do but I’m getting there. I have moved a veg trug into the cage to get away from marauding sparrows. The wood was rotting so I have treated it and it awaits compost and plants.
Below is the view looking from East to West, complete with old bits of carpet keeping the strawberries clear of the soil.
The Autumn fruiting raspberries seem determined to take over the world – their lush growth is wonderful to see.
On Cathy’s advice I did not cut back last year’s canes in February and I am getting a lovely early raspberry crop – Yum!!!! They are a bit smaller than last year and a bit more difficult to find under all the new growth, but worth it for being early.
The loganberry is magnificent and I have already had a few berries. It seems very happy with its north-facing position.
At last some decent gardening weather has turned up so I’d better get out there and clear more weeds.
Thanks for dropping by.
Really these are amazing. So happy to see this beauty. Thanks for this.
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Thank you Lucio, I’m so pleased you enjoyed the post.
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I like the natural collection of flowers for your vase. Your statue looks rather mischievous, I wonder what he has been up to with the rampant Aquilegia.
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Ha! Ha! Ha! 😀 Your comment made me laugh out loud!
You are right, he does have rather a cheeky smirk on his face – and that Aquilegia is SO promiscuous!
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A lovely, naturalistic vase of flowers – and a perfect setting.
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Thank you. I have to admit it was put together in a bit of a hurry, so I’m pleased you like it.
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A lovely vase, and beautifully photographed both with and without Pan. Enjoy your gardening weather!
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Thank you Cathy for your kind remarks. The fine weather has been long time coming! I’m really enjoying it now!
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I love your colorful wildflower vase. Finding Pan in the garden, ready to be of service, was serendipity.
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Hurray for serendipity! You are right Kris, he popped up at just the right time.
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Your vase arrangement is like a wild meadow – so beautiful!
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You are so kind Eliza. I often seem to go for the wild flowers, I do allow quite a few free rein in my garden, much to the horror of my poor neighbours – but my garden vibrates with bees on a sunny day which is reward enough for me!
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I am in complete agreement. I garden for myself and bees, birds and if a few humans like it, all the better. 😉 Those that don’t like it can avert their eyes. 🙂
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YES!!!!!! 😀
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A beautiful, and colourful host of flowers this week Daffy, and you are doing really well in the garden too by the looks of it! 🙂
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Thanks for your lovely encouragement Eddie. Even though my garden will never be pristine, I’m quite proud of the bits I manage to do.
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It looks wonderful, and it has character 🙂
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Yes! thank you – I like that description 😉
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I am weeding as fast as I can too! Wonderful wild vase and Pan is perfect there with all the wildness!
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He came to light at just the right moment. Good luck with the weeding!
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What a truly lovely meadow vase.
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Aw thank you! So glad you like it.
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Such beautiful florals.
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Thank you Cee for your lovely comment.
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Wow, beautiful and so different from my garden! Love that thistle and the use of a volunteer in the vase. I grew blueberries when i lived further north but feared the raspberries!
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Fearing raspberries! I’m sure there is a cure!
If I could only grow one plant it would be them – we seem to be on opposite ends of the gardening scale – how wonderful to be able to share our worlds!
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Actually I am becoming fearful of anything viny or running, especially with thorns!
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Yikes! It’s a jungle out there! Never try loganberries – the thorns are out to get you and never let you go!
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Your Pan was a great find – we have a good rapport with our reclamation yard and have spent a lot of miney there over the years!! Love your wild vase – and good to see your fruit cage is fully functioning ad your raspberries are doing well. Made me remember I need to go and pick mine today – so will have to leave my blog commenting and come back later!!
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Isn’t it a blissful experience to gather home grown produce! Hope you got a good haul today. Thank you so much for your tip about the raspberries. I do love reclamation yards!
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A good 2 pounds yesterday; not so many loganberries yet as I am leaving them till they are very ripe as that makes them sweeter. Now need to WEED in the fruit cage as it is a case of ‘out of sight, out of mind’ 🙂
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Wow! Two pounds! I haven’t reached that yet. Very impressive.
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And dare I say it wasn’t my first picking…? 😉
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Just realised I did not reply to your comment – probably bowled over by your harvest! The second flush of Autumn raspberries has just started and they are again huge and juicy, they do seem to have more flavour than the earlier ones. I do SO love raspberries!
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Pretty vase of flowers. Glad your day gardening was so productive yesterday.
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Thank you Cathy. I really did get quite a bit done, which is a relief after so much wind and rain.
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Such riches and autumn fruiting raspberries are always a treat.
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Oooh they are indeed Joanna. Last year I had fresh raspberries for breakfast from June til November – bliss indeed.
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Your exuberant vase is at home in the natural setting. Lychnis is a favorite.
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Thank you Susie, I often seem to mix the wild with the cultivated – in life as in the vases! Ha!
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I like the outdoor picture with Pan, it’s a lovely purple and yellow theme, beautiful!
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So glad you like it Cath, it is always a challenge to find the right background for the vases.
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