The photo above is of my new Acer tree. It's very pretty and I have put in a couple of trailing Fuchsias now and a plant called Lysimachia which is also a trailing one and has yellow flowers ...... hopefully!
We manged to go round several garden centres yesterday afternoon in the rain. We got 4 more hanging baskets, all reduced, so they were a bargain.
Some of my pots
We also got lots of bedding plants, Geraniums, Busy Lizzies, Petunias, Fuchsias, Marigolds, Snap Dragons, Lobelia, Gazania Daisies, and something that looks like a feather called a Celosia. It's the bright red "blob" you can see in the photo above with the white Busy Lizzies. It's very pretty.
Another corner of the garden.
I spent ages yesterday after Simon had gone to his parents evening, planting stuff out. It was pouring with rain and I got soaked, but I got most of it done. I think I have room for about 5 or 6 more pots which we are going to get on Saturday. The photo above shows a little sun deck that Simon did last year. It's a lovely place to sit when the sun shines! It also shows the lawned area which badly needs doing and is the next job.
Simon's shed and art work
This photo shows Simon's shed and some flowers and .... A metal head! Apparently Simon made this many years ago when he was first learning how to weld. It has been in his classroom in school ever since. Because the school is closing, he is starting to sort out stuff and inevitably some things will come home. He assures me that being outside it will "weather" and go a pretty colour and look good. I am not too sure but it looks better than I thought it would.
Simon is in the process of making me a couple of memorial plaques for Sandy and Buick, our dogs that are no longer with us. We are going to put them on the wall near a hanging basket of flowers. So, that's it, the garden is looking much better and hopefully will be totally finished very soon. All we have to do now is remember to water it if the rain ever stops.
Also daily slug patrols! All the things I planted yesterday are surrounded by slug pellets and eggs shells and guess what? This morning there were still slugs! I had put a line of pellets along the side of the deck and the little deck and this morning the lawn was covered in slug "goo" and loads of dead slugs .... disgusting, but it did stop them getting to my new plants. I don't know why we seem to have so many of these disgusting things this year, we haven't had so many other years. Maybe, I haven't had enough tasty plants before, or maybe it's the rain.
Well, Coralie has been here this morning so I haven't done all my jobs yet. I did some ironing while she was here but I still need to hoover. So I suppose it is time that I went and got on.
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