The Gourd Pot.

So... I wrote a few weeks ago about the pumpkins that were not!...they were gourds...and very nice ones too.

...daughter, from down south, took quite a few home...

... and the lovely pottery class people took some more.

But I still have a basketful of them....though what to do  except gaze appreciately at them.....

....I'm sure I don't know!

Anyway, the Potter  always gives me a ceramic christmas goody and ...so this year the theme was not the pumpkin...

  

which it has been in the past...

...no, no, it's the gourd!

 

I'm looking forward to filling it with sunflowers later in the year.

what are these?

We always try to have some pumpkins grown for the five grand girls.

This however is a pic from a couple of years ago!

We planted ...yes...well we thought that we had planted pumpkins...

so when the potter went looking for them ...as the time is drawing nigh for pumpkin celebrations!...

... looky look!!...ornamental gourds...well would you believe it...must have bought the wrong packet of seeds.

Still I have wanted a basket of these again for a while...

...I grew them a few years ago and then didn't seem to get them to germinate...weather too cold...weather too wet...weather too dry...you know the usual gardeners' reasoning!

...lots and lots of gourds...

 

Sadly ...no "turk's caps"...maybe the weather is to blame for that!