Wood, Sprite and Colour

Wood, Sprite and Colour It's a hands on, nature garden and craft business 🍄🦋🐞🐌🐛🍀 located near Felixstowe.

Blimey! Who would've thought retirement would be so exhausting 🤣So, here the updates of this summer: I have a lovely lit...
29/09/2025

Blimey! Who would've thought retirement would be so exhausting 🤣

So, here the updates of this summer:
I have a lovely little group of customers now, which keeps me just busy enough and leaves enough time for, ... oh where to start?

My limpy leg decided to change where it hurts and how it hurts, so I eventually self referred to physio and now am going to the gym regularly. 🏋️ Having always been a gym rat, it's like coming home. So, watch this space, next year I hopefully will be able to ride my motorbike again!

Dad has been struggling with his catheter for 9 months now, including hospital visit. On 9th October he'll have his OP. Cross fingers for us, please. Hopefully this will do the trick and we can go back to our regular garden centre visits... Oh oh 🙈🤣

I got both my eyes sorted due to cataract - with fantastic success. Still waiting for the final check-up, but 4 days after the last OP I now see better than before when wearing contacts 👏👏👏🍀

It was a funny ol' year, busy in a way, but it feels like not having achieved much and not done much fun stuff. The achy leg took a lot of energy out of it. So, I decided to give up on my garden and to start over for next spring. Maybe that's even a good thing: changing my wildlife lawn to a country garden, I probably would've stuffed it full to the rim by now. Giving it time, I now can go through the seasons of next year and hopefully getting it right.

For now I'm slowly starting to close down. Beans gone, the wicker obelisk now serves as a drying stand in my workshop 😍🌹🌷🌻

Lotsa Love from Rika x

So, there we are again, dad and I went to the garden centre for 'A COFFEE'!You sorta know what happened, don't you? 😂For...
05/06/2025

So, there we are again, dad and I went to the garden centre for 'A COFFEE'!

You sorta know what happened, don't you? 😂

For info: every inch of my garden is planted or allocated to some project and pots already everywhere.

And then there was a lightbulb moment 💡💡💡My wildlife lawn is not working! It always topples overs at the edges. Seeding plants seed themselves outside the patch and inside I mainly have grases and some daisies. The first wind flattens everything and cats build their daytime sleeping places into it. Very cute, but not the purpose.

So! I'm gonna turn it into a cottage garden 🥀🌷🌻🌺🍄🍀🌹

And THAT allows for the purchase of an awful lot of plants 😍👏👏👏
Happy gardening ❤️

Quick update on the roses.The first year the red climber is doing well. Can't wait for the pink climber on the other sid...
05/06/2025

Quick update on the roses.
The first year the red climber is doing well. Can't wait for the pink climber on the other side to open flowers 🌹🌹🌹

Today I have mainly been battling Triffids 🙈That Rose in the front garden that grew from a dropped and buried root 3 yea...
24/05/2025

Today I have mainly been battling Triffids 🙈

That Rose in the front garden that grew from a dropped and buried root 3 years ago, got enclosed by stinging nettles, crocosmia, rhubarb - thank you! Sue Barrett 🤣 - and all sorts, so it didn't get cut last year 🙈🙈🙈

It did have an obelisk, which got completely obliterated by the heavy thing.

Today was the day! Stinging nettles dug out, rhubarb harvested... Crumble later, maybe? Other stuff pulled out and while shouting a plenty of 'Oh bother!!!' the obelisk parts removed. Outcome: a canopy of roses now on the ground.

For now, the Mahonia came to the rescue, everything tied together and now sort of hanging on the Mahonia. As flowers fade, it'll be cut back until it reaches a hight that it can maintain naturally - like the one in the back garden.

Now sitting with a cuppa and licking my wounds. Seriously, this thing is not taking prisoners but is out for the kill 😂🍀🍄🦔🐞🐝🐸

Been quite quiet for a while; I have my little group of clients with very different gardens and wishes for them, found m...
17/05/2025

Been quite quiet for a while; I have my little group of clients with very different gardens and wishes for them, found my mojo for each by now, but can't really post about them.
My own garden got a bit on the back burner during May, hence the silence.

Every year I have the same dilemma: we take at least one week of holidays going away. This year it was Guernsey. We travelled with a lovely group of friends, met a lot more friends on Guernsey, and had a wonderful time all around.

And then again: May sets the tone of the garden for the rest of the year. My seedlings are weak, some didn't make it, and I'm far from getting them into the ground. Oh well... next year maybe 🍀🐞🍄

One story however I have to tell: My Hedgehog house woodpile made good progress 🙏🦔😍
See, I don't have a rubbish disposal license, and one garden had lots of thick branches, that didn't fit into the bin. So I took them home 🤣😂

Piled them up, with a living chamber in the middle, and planted stuff on top and around. None of the wood was straight and I didn't have as much as I thought. Hence, to make it watertight I put a membrane, which only allows for a thin layer of soil on top. I hope my watering system will work 🤔🙏
Still one half to finish, but getting there 😊🍀🍄🐞🦔🐝

26/03/2025

After 4 years the pond is becoming what I had planned it to be, with all it's mosses covering stones and lumps of wood and ground overing plants reaching into any little crack and filling it with colour. I like to imagine little people going there for a hike, foraging for all sorts, hopping over stones crossing the river and taking a rest at the mossy bank 🐞🍀🍄🐌

The first proper warm day of the year and the pond sure is ready for spring - including frog spawn 👏👏👏🐸🐸🐸
26/03/2025

The first proper warm day of the year and the pond sure is ready for spring - including frog spawn 👏👏👏
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Luv that The Wool Baa Felixstowe ❤️
04/03/2025

Luv that The Wool Baa Felixstowe ❤️

And so the rotation of the composter planters begins; it's the one activity which for me creates that flow within my gar...
22/02/2025

And so the rotation of the composter planters begins; it's the one activity which for me creates that flow within my garden throughout the years. It's like a red little thread that weaves through time 🍄

I know there are ways to very quickly create great compost, but that is not what I am after. Whatever compost comes out of it is lovely and a bonus, I however need to manage my garden and household scraps, while avoiding ugly black plastic containers or heaps of something in my rather small garden, and having something pretty instead 🐞

I now have 3 long containers, can. 80cm high, 60cm deep along the side of the patio against the house wall.

Last year in late spring, I faked a bit on how I filled the first one, using mainly coarse stuff from the garden and leftover soil from patio build and very little that's appreciated by earthworm & Co. So it was more a planter rather than a compost, but it filled up quick and I planted Lovage, Hyssop, parsley, lemon balm, celery, an old half head of cabbage, nasturtium and water cress. It looked fabulous and gave me a good harvest.

In the meantime I filled the middle container with all the nice composting stuff, and right on time it was full to the rim just now.

Box number three is now started with the coarser bits from the early spring clean and the first kitchen scraps. The plants from last year's compost have moved over into the just filled box using a thick layer of compost to settle them in and leaving a bit of space for a fresh parsley and some nasturtiums later in spring.

Everything that gets rattled out goes into the latest compost, so some branches might get shifted a few years until they are fully gone.

The two boxes which are not planted are getting cover strong enough to hold pots 🍀

Can't wait for spring to arrive, but so much to do before it does.

Happy gardening! 🍄🍀🐞🐌

It seems the spring has almost sprung, crocus are out, my little pink catkin is full of fluffy stuff and the wallflower...
19/02/2025

It seems the spring has almost sprung, crocus are out, my little pink catkin is full of fluffy stuff and the wallflower which never really stopped is setting new buds.
A good time to attend a willow obelisk weaving workshop at the 2 Sisters Art Centre in Trimley St Mary. It was great fun and am well chuffed with the outcome 😊
And yes! My final compost planter is in place, all that's missing is a lick of paint. Garden spring clean, here I come 🐞🍄🍀🐌

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