Herbydaceous

10/06/2026

10/06/2026

There's something about this stage of midlife that feels a little different 🤩

You're choosing more carefully, especially what - and who - you surround yourself with.

Not because you have to - but because you can. 💚🌸

09/06/2026

Still, it'll smell lovely when I'm ripping it all out! 😁🍀🪏

08/06/2026

When we reach midlife I think we often expect ourselves to be in one clear place... 🙃

To know where we are.
To understand what stage we’re in.
To feel like things are moving in a steady, logical direction 🤨

But the more I notice things like this…

the more I realise how little of nature works like that.

Within a single hedgerow there are dozens of different things happening at once 🌱🌿🌳🍁🌺

Some plants just beginning.
Some in full bloom.
Some already setting seed.

All part of the same space.
All happening at the same time.

And maybe we’re more like that than we think.

Beginning AND letting go.
Opening AND holding back.
Growing AND resting… all at once 🌱😉

Not because something’s wrong.

But because that’s what growth in midlife actually looks - and feels - like 💚🌿

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07/06/2026

But I'm not doing it in the most balanced way... 😁🌱

There’s a lot of advice about tending things - like your wellbeing and your garden -"little and often"
Keeping on top of it.
Maintaining order.

But if I’m honest…

I seem to get a disproportionate amount of satisfaction
from letting things get just a bit out of hand…! 🫣

and then having a really good clear-out 🤣🌿

The kind where you stand back afterwards and think
“that’s better.”

There’s something about the transformation I reckon - the shift, the visible evidence of change.

And maybe that’s part of it too.

Not just tending - ourselves and our garden - gently and consistently…
but occasionally resetting things completely 🌿💚

Feels good! 😋

06/06/2026

Piffle. Codswallop. Tripe. Twaddle.
😋💚💙💚💙

My absolute favourite colour combination!

Apparently a French bloke (maritime explorer who named Cananda) in the early 15th Century first said it..... who knew!?

Grape Hyacinth, Green Alkanet, Bluebells and Speedwell.

Other lovely blues - Geranium Johnsons Blue, Chinese Forget-me-not (Cynoglossum amabile) and Ceratostigma for late summer early autumn.