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It’s still too wet to garden, so I’m continuing to tidy the potting shed and mooch in the greenhouse.

It deprives the sufferer of one of the main comforts of old age, the knowledge that they have a close and loving family. uk also known for its Walkers Daffodil Collection which won 26 consecutive gold medals at Chelsea Flower Show and numerous Premier awards at Harrogate Spring Show over the decades. But I feel sad that my small bunch of flowers couldn’t go on Joan’s bedside table to bring her some joy at this difficult time. Cerise red dahlias, possibly Arabian Night, with red salvias which are also having their moment now.It’s no wonder anyone with dementia would fail to recognise the person sitting two metres away, not allowed to hug, voices muffled from the masks. All you need to apply is to have a debit or credit card, to be over 18 years of age, and to be a UK resident. They had bee hives at the bottom of the garden, and the taste of honey took her right back to those happy times. They gained such a renowned reputation that they supplied plants to the Chelsea Flower Show, and also to the Queen Mother and Prince Charles. Daily shaving can lead to irritation but Wilkinson Sword’s Hydro 5 Skin Protection Sensitive men’s blades are designed for incredible skin protection.

Let me know what your highlights were this summer and how your garden is looking right now on the cusp of winter weather. The glasses are placed under the staging in the greenhouse, out of direct sun, but in a warm and sheltered place. She especially loved having flowers in the house as carers would always comment on how cheerful they were and how much they enjoyed visiting Joan and her husband Keith.I’ve planted Tete-tete in these and placed them on the potting shed window where I can look at them while I’m working. Natural string is used to tie them together, so at the end of their life, the whole lot can be shredded and composted.

The tiny deep purple flowers are Geranium Phaeum which pops up all over the plot in places I never planted it. These are more reliable in difficult conditions because you need much smaller corms to obtain flowers. I’m a ‘glass-half-full’ kind of person, so I’m thinking what good can come out of this experience and what I can do next to help families with relatives suffering from dementia. Each week, I pick a selection of flowers to take to my Mum as a ‘snap-shot’ of what the garden looks like. Deep red buds open to a lovely marmalade orange and the markings on the petals remind me of a dragonfly’s wings.I’ve taken note, and next year there will be several rows of these beauties lining my cut flower beds.

Here you can see my greenhouse, polytunnel and potting shed set up, all close together to save walking too far between them. I sit here, surrounded by familiar things: flowers, fresh from the garden, favourite books, magazines, tea, and mum’s lemon cake. This is a lime green bedding plant I keep going from one year to the next by taking lots of cuttings and keeping them in 3” pots over the winter. And I revel in every second of quiet and calming observation, with no other purpose than to just enjoy this moment. In amongst the chrysanths there’s some salvia Hot Lips which is still flowering its heart out on 27th November.I’m inspired by Georgie at Common Farm flowers who encourages us to join in her daily 30-stem challenge. Living on the boundary between Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, I felt I had to have Galanthus Robin Hood. I’m writing this blog as a diary of my gardening life, and also as a record of the times we are all going through, and the situation for the elderly, especially those with dementia who cannot ‘see’ their families in person. Georgie advises to take flowers straight from the bucket, and not set them out on a table in a row -which is how I’ve been doing it until now.