New Roses & Lemons or Lime?

What a cold and windy week we have had. The fire is now being lit every night, although it means cleaning out and restocking every morning, it definitely is worth it. One of the high lights of winter for me. Speaking of winter, surprisingly, two of the 5 bare root roses I ordered, arrived this week.

 This meant  I have had to dig up the garden to plant them, and decided to put these in the front. This area has been a bit of a pain and was originally where the original Pierre rose was. One of the azaleas was always in the wrong place to I removed it completely.

Azealea in the middle removed

Side View

I started to cleanup and managed to plant the two roses, then my back gave way again.

Pierre is left and will climb up. Peace is right and is a normal hybrid tea.

Side view showing rest of garden .

Once I dig in the rest of the compost bag, will probably put  annual flowers in here, or small ornamentals like modern dahlias, or maybe chrysthamums that only grow to  about 40cm.

My back of course has been aching ever since. It could be the fact that my Rheumatoid Specialist rang again this week, to say the white blood count has gone down yet again and I have to give it another week for another blood test Wednesday, to see if I can go back on the Actemra infusion. Generally not feeling great mentally, as well as aching joints. John is never home or around so it is a pretty lonely life as well, so I was glad to get back to sewing this week. At the moment doing a drawn thread project, but have dragged out an old blanket project to take as well being a chance to do wool while it is cold. Teachers orders lol.

Drawn Thread

Rocking Horse Wool Blanker

 I also had to order some more wool thread as searched high and low for the remnants of it. Luckily I managed to get some, as DMC specialist stuff is hard to get.

Lime curd with 6 eggs used to make these 3 small jars.

I also made some delicious lime curd/spread, but can't tell the difference if its lemon or not. I am beginning to wonder about these huge limes we have, whether they were labeled wrongly in the first place, or the trees are back to front and what I think is the lemon is the lime.

Lemon

Lime?

Whatever they are certainly very juicy, and will have to freeze the juice, before long.
The rest of the vegetable garden is going great, picking snow peas and this week the beans will be ready.

Beans

Snow Peas

Beans,lettuce,carrots, leeks and a wild cherry tomato.

Hope you all had a good week. Till next time.