Mary Mary Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow?

With bottle bottom flowers and painted wooden hearts and bunting flags all in a row!

Miss M and Miss E created these with Grandma and Grandad following a holiday at their house.  Aren't they just glorious?

They don't need watering or dead-heading making them my favourite type of flowers and they add such a lovely pop of colour.

We have a fence at the bottom of the garden which is really facing the wrong way to grow anything up it but I felt it needed brightening up somewhat so I asked Mr A to cut out some heart shapes from odds and ends of wood....

and then we got the paints out...

Miss E painted this cornflower blue one...

And this chequered design is one of Miss M's creations...

We're suckers for hearts at chez Monis so now we have some lovely ones hanging outside as well as inside....a wall of love!

While on a roll, I attached a couple of hooks to the side of the shed so I could hang up this bunting I made.  There's another hook just inside the shed door so it can be very quickly popped away at the end of the day.

This oak was planted from an acorn in the millennium year, it was one of three but is now the sole survivor...it's a little toughie!!