New friends

Opal

Nareeda, Kelly Gal, Missy and Opal have taken up residence here at Frog Pond Farm.

They are the gentlest of souls.

They are part of a horse rescue/foster group.

We are providing a temporary home for them.

The group of amazing people who care for these animals are all volunteers and are committed to helping recondition them and finding permanent homes.

Farmer Bill has started giving them breakfast each morning......

........and Kathy was here today to clean the paddocks.

She is returning tomorrow to give the horses a much needed brush.

They seem very content out there. 

They have food, water, rugs and company. 

Around the garden path.....

It was time to check my lilium propagations.

These are the scales that were peeled away from the bulbs, placed in a plastic bag with damp vermiculite and shoved in a cardboard box in the potting shed weeks ago.

Little white bulblets have formed on the edges and now there are long roots growing from these.

I still can't believe that it could be this easy to grow more of these glorious blooms.

( photo from Lambley Nursery catalogue where my original 3 bulbs came from)

Today I potted up  61  supposedly new liliums from the scales method and another 35 from the seeds that had shot in a plastic bag also just hung from a nail in the potting shed.

Oh me oh my....that's nearly 100!

Hope it's not too early.....

Hope it's not too cold.....

Hope I haven't poked them in too deeply.....

Won't it be amazing if I can keep them growing until flowering time. 

Can't wait.

Sweet smelling daphne picked today to bring inside.

I adore the perfume of daphne in Winter.

A bit funny and a bit not....

Yesterday Amy had a parcel delivered.

It was the smallest parcel ever, delivered by the biggest delivery truck ever and this was the result......

Amy and I thought it was hilarious!

Poor tree looked like it was going to fall at some stage anyway with that big  decayed hole in the middle of it. 

Poor delivery man was beside himself!