A bit of micro-gardening
Sleety, snowy, windy cold drove me indoors from the workshop early today – I promised myself that I would give the greenhouse a bit of a cleanup this weekend too, but it will have to be tomorrow now. I haven’t abandoned the gardening idea entirely though.
These little pots have been sitting empty on a shelf for some time – a visitor to my workshop saw them and asked if I would make some, but larger, so it has been one of my jobs this week to carve stone pots with scalloped edges for her.
I’ve really enjoyed a few hours of micro-gardening – taking these tiny, young off-shoots from the main plant, and giving them their own little home. Fiddling around with rootlets, soil, cuttings and bulbs has been fun and I feel quite refreshed by it and somehow wholesome. I’ve even been wondering if I might ‘need’ a miniature trowel and fork, now I’ve got going with my indoor gardening, for when I fill my next little container and plant up further pots.
Haven’t thought long about the little tools – it has been using my fingers and planting by hand that’s been such a pleasure.
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oh, such sweet little pots.
Of course I’m besotted by stone, but I love the texture of this Bathstone, don’t you?
Lovely! You have made me long for spring and all the gardening/ planting/ sowing that brings x
It is a time when you look forward a bit – today mostly has been bleak here but now we have sun, which pushed through the sleet and gave wonderful rainbows, and suddenly things are transformed.