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[Oh_hunnihunni]

morning ladies   It must be autum, the mornings are quite chilly now.  At least yesterday afternoon felt like summer!

Yesterday I caught up with a friend for lunch, but our favourite cafe had closed due to not enough workers   We found another lovely cafe to eat at but not far from it was another closed cafe, closed for the same reason.  My friend has asked MrK to make two jewelry boxes like mine so he will be kept busy soon.  He has an old mahogany bed headboard being recycled and plans to make them out of that.  It's a gorgeous timber with a lovely grain and colour.

MrK has 'closed' the compost bins so he can empty one and turn the other into the empty bin.  Just in time too as we have used all the useable compost.  I can't start pruning until I have somewhere to put the prunings.  It's a tad early anyway as the dahlias have finally come into their own.

Not sure what plans we have for the day, it might just be a pottering about type of day.  Tomorrow will be busy as I will at Waikato Hospital for most of it with our elderly friend.  I might even find something to stitch for while I wait for him.

Happy crafting

You could just prune by shorter pieces and drop those around the plants they came from. I knew an old French gardener who used to do that as a way to keep weeds down. He even used to drop green kitchen waste around his shrubs because he found bending to deal with young weeds an issue. He had one of those very traditional shrubbery type picking gardens and I always came home with an amazing bouquet when we went to see him. I think his garden started my love of hydrangeas, but I have never grown anything nearly as well as he did. He also used to snap off old rose flowers with his fingers, just under the head, never cut the stem back to the five leaf as my grandmother taught me.

His roses were stunning too...