On my Windowsill

Hello Lovelies,
Yesterday was grey and cold with almost constant rain. It scuppered plans I had to photograph a few things I wanted to share with you lovelies. I also need to take pictures of the pages of my Nature Notes book for my December post ....I've already uploaded the outdoor pictures of my own...Brrrrr...makes me cold looking at them.

So in the evening I decided to share something much more cozy, my kitchen windowsill :0) My little side kitchen only has a view of the wheely bins and next doors wall so the darkness is actually quite beneficial.

Can you see the bulbs...they are the things I really wanted to show you . My Amaryllis is finally getting close to flowering ........

It's later than last year but I am pleased and rather surprised it survived at all . It's been outdoors all summer and almost forgotten about completely ,but happily I noticed signs of life  at the end of October and brought it indoors. Here 's how it looked at the beginning of November.........

Hopefully it will look like this again soon :0)


Some more eagerly awaited bulbs are these little Narsissi (tete a tete ). I picked  them up for £1 in the supermarket yesterday and popped them straight into my rather lovely, buttermilk yellow,thrifted "woods wear" jug .
I do enjoy the anticipation of indoor bulbs so much . I think I would rather buy them and wait than buy flowers that are already at their best . It's just lovely walking into the room in the morning or after work and seeing them in bloom for the first time. Plus I can plant them out after they fade to look lovely in the garden next year...........

That was my intention , last winter , with these Hyacinths .I showed you these in my previous post but they are looking even better now. Somehow they also got forgotten but happily they are also flowering for a second year in the same pot. The flower heads are a bit smaller but they still smell fabulous..............

And the pale lilac flowers are so pretty....spring is still a long way away but there's a little taste of the delights to come on my kitchen windowsill :0).........

Hope you enjoy the last day of 2011. Thank you all for visiting this year...you are the best. Wishing you all a Happy ,Creative, 2012.
Jacquie x