More walking! and lots of plants

The weather has been glorious in Wales for the past few days and I have been doing as much as possible to take advantage of it.

I ABSOLUTELY love gardening, I have lovely borders in my garden.. unfortunately I rent my house and I don't want to spend lots of money planting up the borders to then move again so I make do with a lot of pots.

I have been hunting down a small willow tree I saw in a shop last summer for a while now and the other day I happened to pull up at Asda and they were selling them! Now I have them noted down as being 'Salix - Hakuro Nishiki' but apparently it's also known as 'Salix - Flamingo' I think you can see why! Anyway I am super happy about finally finding it again.

(this photo was taken before I potted it, obviously.....)

These are my tomatoes that I have grown from seed. I have a few things this year that are really blooming that I have grown from seed including Lavender, Sweet Williams and radishes. I have about 20 tomato plants! However I am selling a lot of the others off for charity.

I'm currently on annual leave and loving it. I have been out cycling on my new bike most days and last week I went to visit my friend in Neath. Neath is right on the edge of the Brecon Beacons and right next to Waterfall Country. We went out to Pontneddfechan and took a walk up to some of the falls. I fell in love, it was beautiful and peaceful. Sadly like most places there was litter being left and I am one of those weirdos that picks it up when she sees it. So mostly I came home with rubbish that other people had left behind.

The wildlife and plantlife was amazing. Look at these curly ferns!

I'm home now for a few days and am going to enjoy relaxing on the farm, spending time with my dogs and reading in the garden if the weather holds up. Look at my mum's amazing lilac plant. The colour is so vibrant.