Unexpected bloom.

At Christmas we had a lovely Amaryllis in bloom despite having been rather neglected, we had 'rescued' it the previous year from Lidl, rather dried up but still trying to make leaves. We gave it some TLC and it blossomed for us. We then forgot about it, until we spotted some green, it was still on a window ledge, we re-potted it, watered it and again it bloomed, just in time for Christmas. This time however I did get round to taking it from it's spot in the sitting room, meaning to dry the bulb off in the greenhouse. I never got round to it, it sat in the sunroom, last week I spotted a flash of red from under the Passion flower leaves, it was the Amaryllis.

Five months later and it's in bloom again.

It seems that this is one plant that thrives on total neglect.
So far May is proving to be a tad wet, in fact it's very wet, in just the first nine days we have had half of last years rainfall for May. In one of todays deluges Simon rescued a moth, he came in warning me not to go into the front porch which is where he had placed it, I peaked through the front door to see this creature,

it turned out to be an Emperor moth, even I had to admit it was beautiful, but big!

Even I had to admire it's beauty.

It's wings were three and a half inches across. Anything bigger than a cloths moth has me running for cover. Moths  along with snakes the one thing I don't 'do'.

Plenty of salad and our first watercress.

   Everything is growing at a pace in the garden including the weeds.

Super colour.

Lovely contrast .

The Tulips are still putting on a good display,

Ornamental flowering cherry.

apple trees and cherries are in bloom, maybe we might get a few cherries this year if the birds don't get them first.

First of our Clematis in flower. 

Rainy days means I get round to cooking more,

Simple but time consuming.

we had a hankering for Eccles cakes which although easy to make take time, lots of resting of the flaky pastry which has to be rolled three times, but they were certainly worth the effort.

Thank you useful hubby, just what I wanted.

The trellis has almost been finished, just one more section for Simon to do, he ran out of wood so we have to wait until tomorrow to get more to complete the job, but sufficient of the trellis was done to install it and plant the climbers which were desperate to be released from their pots.

Freddy, one of the kittens dreaming a wet day away.

The cats and Meg the puppy are fed up with the weather, they seems to be blaming us for it.

Tommy our eldest cat doing likewise.

The cats spend most of the time sleeping

Zara wanting more food.

or complaining that they want out, the pup just gets into mischief. She is a sweet little thing but has no conscience about anything, and the word NO does not apply to her.

And Meg being cute but disobedient, she is NOT allowed on the table.

Simon reckons that there is more in a vacuum than in her head, he might well be right.

Still my favourite tulip this year.