Friday Coffee and Chat -- 21st November 2025

@Shaz51 Lovely!

@Chasingsunsets @ENKELI @Kashmina @avant-garde @heartathome

The Seven Survivors!Our garlic chives in bloom. (Mashed potatoes boiled with a handful of cut up garlic chives, with a little cream or butter (add milk if you like to smooth.) Delicious!Yarrow in fully bloom.White roses the garden adorn but i hate prunig the thorns.is a great fodder to rot in the veggie patch not grow.Not sure about the name of that tall yellow flowering plant is it a hollywock?

Hope your lillies flower too @Dimity

Looked up a picture 😊

Beautiful photos @DownMoreThanUp 😍

@Shaz51 Wow!

Did you know you can make awesome looking garden stones from those leaves? Simply fill up the shape of the leave about 150mm deep then shape it as you like and lay the leave on the top leaf veins down. Mix enough cement to completely build fill your leaf up about 50mm thick. Do make sure you get strong cement without stones in it, you do not want to use a premix concrete here.

Simply let the cement dry, keeping it out of the sun and gently wet for a few days to make sure the cement hardens hardest. Peel of the leaf and done! The outcome is stunning. We got one in the garden but it is rather grown over and i do not want to wreck the plants.

You can also colour the cement very effectively using coloured bathroom grouts.

@DownMoreThanUp it doesn't really look like a hollyhock. It might be a big evening primrose.

I have a couple of hollyhocks starting to send up flower spikes.

@Dimity Yes i do not really know. It could be an evening primrose but i thought it looked too tall to be one, maybe related, for it does look a lot alike.

Could it be mullein @DownMoreThanUp ?

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The photos are incredible @Dimity @Shaz51 @DownMoreThanUp @Chasingsunsets @ENKELI !

I had a strawberry matcha today. Coffee anyone?

Yes coffee ☕️ here @tyme 😁