🌿 May in the Countryside | Slow Living & Spring Garden Days

It's a bit chilly this morning, but we'll be baiting that. Lily! Lily! Yes, you're brilliant, you've got a signal. Yeah. This pink is so nice in yellows. When you're thinking my yellow isn't working, you just put a tiny bit to make a gloomy yellow. It may well not be the case. I didn't want to put you off, and I thought they were very nice to us. Anyway, yes, I can and should. I'm conscious of lunch, and knowing that you all want to get at it, except Alice. Yeah, I agree. I find myself doing stuff like... Selectable books, no, no. And they don't even have a sign saying that that's what it is. I think, well, maybe it is. Yeah, blue with the bright... I've got a needle in my eye. No, I'm here. Thank you. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to my YouTube. I'm just in the greenhouse. It's Sunday here. I got back from swimming this morning. I've got a long list of jobs to catch up on in the garden, as I was so busy this week. I haven't been home much. I had an event in the Cotswolds on Tuesday after the bank holiday. And then I had a photo shoot in Sussex. And then I have some projects I've been working on behind the scenes, which are in the pipeline. So I've been on my laptop quite a lot, doing lots of admin. And then I had a photo shoot yesterday as well, a modelling shoot. So lots going on and lots coming up. So when I have a nice, quiet Sunday, peaceful Sunday, I like to get out in the garden and catch up on my jobs that I don't get time to do in the week. So today I am going to enjoy a cup of tea and check up on the seedlings in here. I need to put on my tomato plants here. It's long overdue. And I've got some more sweet peas to plant out. My netting has just arrived for my sweet peas. So I tied this netting on the bean poles for the sweet peas to grow up. And I just need to put the last one on the poles. So I'm going to do that. Before I get started on my garden jobs, I just wanted to open this package with you, which I've been sent by a really interesting brand called So Vital. And they have introduced a new collection of garden fertilisers. And I was just so impressed by the package, so I wanted to share it on here. So here are the fertilisers. And as you can see, everything has been done so well. Look at this gorgeous packaging. So this is the total feed granules. Look how lovely that is. And they also sent me a collection of fertilisers. So this one is multi-purpose. Just think, they are so nice. Because normally with my plant feeds, like my seaweeds, they come in hideous plastic containers. So this is such a treat to have a lovely container that looks stylish in the greenhouse and doesn't ruin the aesthetic. And this is a fruit and veggie liquid plant food. And they are organic, vegan. And I just wanted to share them with you, because this is a new collection for them, and it was very kind of them to send this to me. And I wanted to share the love on here. And I also sent a little measuring cup. As with plastic plant feeds, you normally get a measuring cup on here, so please do check them out. Look at my nasturtium. Ready to go out. So this is the plant netting that I use. And it is biodegradable and compostable. And it will look like this once I've finished. Now planting out my pea seedlings. Look how healthy they look. Olivia rose. Another one. I have just picked my first roses of the summer. These are David Austin roses. And this is the Olivia rose. It's ginormous. I love the scent. Very happy. I am home from my wonderful watercolour class at Ham Court by Matthew Rice. And I thought we could open the goodie bag together. I've got my not so good painting here and Matthew's example leaflet to help us with our botanical drawings. And then in here, I've got some treats, so let's open it together. So firstly, it's this beautiful tea towel, which is of Ham Court, where the watercolour workshop was hosted at. And I will be saving this for my new kitchen area in the barn. So beautiful. The next in the bag was this Emma Bridgewater forget-me-not little mug. I haven't seen this one before. It's so sweet. I love that. They have also very kindly gifted us some Chilton seeds, and I love Chilton seeds, so this is really exciting. So those are calendulas. I've grown those this year. They were so easy to grow, so I will definitely be planting more. Shirley Poppy, that sounds really nice. Wow, Shirley Poppy, amazing grey. I'll have to look these up. And cornflower. You can never have too many cornflowers, so that is very exciting. Thank you so much to Matthew Rice and Ham Court and Chilton Seeds. There's a flyer inside for the circus, the Falls Delight Circus, which they host at Ham Court. And I was supposed to go last year, and I sadly couldn't make it in the end, so it's definitely on my list to go because I've heard great things. So I just thought I would mention that if anyone is in the Bampton area this time in July. This card from Catherly has a coat on the back to redeem, so I will be looking that up as I love the Catherly products. So thank you so much to Matthew Rice and Ham Court for these lovely goodie bags. Very kind, and thank you for a wonderful day at the watercolour class. I am just out with mum in the rain. She's doing some cow pasture images while it's here. Coming from the circus.