Who would want to sit in front of a computer staring at JML Fast Fit Ironing Board Cover - Pawprint, catalogue number 850/1116, checking it for colour just so Mrs Miggins won't be disappointed and return it? Yep, who would want to do that as against looking after this?
Finally got rid of the roots to a poorly placed hedge today, it's taken me forever, but the area will be planted with lavender to match the other side of the steps.
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| Moved all those hellibores and ferns middle left of picture a few weeks ago, they've settled in well. That whole area was pretty much over grown with ground cover, I want to reproduce a sort Jekyll (Gertrude that is) effect in the shade if I can. There's anemones in the back and I want to plant up some foxgloves as well, few more ferns too... |
Also dug out a couple of medium sized shrubs from a small ornate-ish border in the main lawn area (NB: don't know why this has gone to double line spacing). I have also been working on this for a while. A tree specialist moved the two ash trees on either side, I did the topiary(?), ha ha!
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| Nice bit of work that should look really good come the summer - I hope! |
This is where I moved the shrubs to. It's at the top of a little hill that drops down to an area we are going to plant up as a wild flower meadow and then down to a dried up stream.
The wild flower meadow is inspired by Sarah Raven's series, Bees, Butterflies and Blooms. Her best bit of work ever I think. If you didn't see it it is actually worth doing an iPlayer visit, at least on the last episode shown last night. Suffice to say I am really looking forward to starting work on the meadow, I
feel a song coming on:
Ohhhhhhh, There's a bright golden haze on the meadow
There's a bright golden haze on the meadow
The corn is as high as an elephant's eye,
An' it looks like it's climbin' clear up to the sky.
Well there we go, you even get a blast of Howard Keel on here! Also cut back
some grass from the edge of the pond, so it truly was a busy day, but so worth
it. Oh and a bay tree that blocked a view across Aylesbury Vale towards Oxford.
This is another area of the garden that will be worked at some point this year.
Exciting stuff.
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| Front door - there are plans to make it more obvious! |
Finally, some lovely flowers in the front garden:
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| Exquisite hellebore - I really think they are my favourite flower and not just because they are so easy to grow! |
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| Beautiful iris in amongst my obsession at the moment, some snowdrops |
And after the digging and moving and re-planting, here is a picture of the sky between a redwood and a yew tree - yep, I was flat out on me back!
Happy, happy!
