More stone, More walls

Working early to avoid the stifling heat Rod and I have been building walls along the lower driveway to hold back the bank on the high side. The red oak garden is almost complete with the ash garden still needing it's top layer.

Cactus Collection

Let the little birds come

It is such a joy to watch

the little birds 

frolicking in the water.

More Success with Sean

Sean inserted the terracotta tile border which defines the path and should help to contain the berry plants in the garden beds.

Rod created the trellis to support the berry canes. The one closest in the picture in version 1. Version 2 was easier to stretch the wire on.

Trellis Version 2

The tiles have special significance to Rod and I as they were
reclaimed from the roof of the Lych Gate at the church
where we were married.

   

Success with Sean

I have a garden I which needs more time than I have to give. I have a nephew who has more time than money. Successfully I have joined the two and here is the outcome of a sessions of hard work in the sun by Sean.

Bricks left over from the barn paving border both vegetable garden beds,
making it easier to stop Kikuyu grass from taking a hold in the garden beds.

The grass and the bricks contrast nicely.

Lobelia Teirs

I try to replant these terracotta pots a couple of times a year by purchasing 3 or 4 punnets of seedling. This spring/summer the display is self seeded. 

Lobelia erinus

Christmas has come to Ashwell