Music and Gardening...

If anyone out there is still searching for the meaning of life, you are most welcome to try out mine : a balance of music and gardening, with a sprinkling of cats and dogs. So easy!

 Not doing too badly, but her mobility is declining.
Winnie the Dog

Oh boy! Today I have been oh so good. Five hours, and I've cleaned up and dumped my mess - five barrowfuls. Had a short break midday to work on some music I'm arranging (Ravel's Sonatine) for my chamber music group.

Doing edges, trimming, dead-heading, weeding...

I've been working in the gardens around the Driveway Lawn - doing the edges, trimming shrubs (Buddleia and Berberis), dead-heading and weeding. Late in the day I cleared the main Hump Garden path. Cut down the Evening Primroses and trimmed the summer Phlox. Dug out two gigantic old Anemanthele grasses, found quite a lot of nasty grass thriving in the soil underneath. Scraped and dug and tried to get it all out.

 Just part of it!
My Beautiful Hump Garden in March

And while I worked Winnie the dog sat quietly on the nearby lawn. One of the Fred cats struck a pose on a nearby tree stump. Buster the black cat was spying on us all, hidden underneath a Phormium.

I love the Hump Garden. It's full of dahlias, roses, and the bees are busy bumbling around the flowers. Honey bees share the sedums with the bumbles. The world can learn a lot from bees.

 Share the sedum, share the world...
Bees on a Sedum

And I love Ravel's piano music, which so naturally fits flutes, violas, cellos, even orchestras. He himself was THE best orchestrator ever. He understands the textures of one's imagination. Wow! Such praise!