Another Fence Made

Lee has been busy fixing the fence and making it a bit higher using old trellis from the garden. The fencepost needed to be set in the ground and then Lee painted up the old fence. The trellis was used from the vegetable patch as the wind had broken and blown a lot of it down. 3 panels were cut, fitted and fixed and then all of it was painted. Looks so much better and the birds love it. The garden is starting to take shape now. We are finally winning the battle.

Before - New Fencepost Cemented in and painted.

Inside Painted

All Fixed and Painted Up

After - All Done and Looking Like New

Funny Bin

Loving this sticker for our Bin, hopefully it will bring a smile or two.

Supposed to be a Camel

Front of House

Chimney Gone!

The leaking chimney has been removed. No point keeping it if there isn't even a fireplace. The Bad News is that it will probably take a few years for the wall to dry out and we will have to take the plaster off one wall in our bedroom. The Good News is that the builder found Wattle and Daub up there which is really interesting as we don't really know how old this cottage is. It's certainly had a couple of extensions but this means that it could date back to the medieval ages. He thinks it could have been some sort of workshop as there is a lot of soot up there. Lee has found an old rock with iron in it in the garden. Could be some sort of connection there?

From Dawn 'till Dusk

Chimney Removed

Lovely Rocks

Another patch cleaned and we found lots of lovely Big Rocks. Really needed to clean this border so that we can plan our archery range. Targets are going to go on the side of the Garage which means we will be shooting down towards the targets. At least now we can see what's going on. There's lots of Crocosmia and plants emerging, which will stay on the left and lots of Ivy and a low Conifer on the right, this will stay also and some of the rocks will be put back once we are finished. We are planning to put some steps down the middle. Lee found 4 frogs!

Lovely Big Rocks

Border Trimmed Back

Pond Border

The cleaning continues in the border by the pond.

Lee has taken the old wheelbarrow to try and fix it up as the wheel has fallen off and some of it is rotten. He's also put in a wooden line edge so the grass doesn't get into the border so quickly and moved some big hefty rocks into the border.

Some overgrown plants were given a hard prune as they were too tall and leggy and I've moved some of the little plants like 'Lungwort" into little groups. There's quite a few ferns in here too so should look nice and full by the Summer.

This border already has a Mahonia, Forest Flame, Fuchsia, Azaleas, some lovely Ferns, Hardy Geraniums, a few Rockery plants and an established Weeping Cherry. Acquilegia is between some of the shrub roots so these will stay and also the little Primroses for the bees. I've planted some Irises, a tiny Magnolia Tree, Witch Hazel and Poppies.  There were a few Lupins in the Vegetable patch so I've moved these over as well. I'm just waiting for some evergreen plants to arrive and then I can finish this off.

There are a couple of not so healthy roses so I've dug these out and will replant them somewhere else as they don't seem to be doing very well here. I'd also like to put some ferns just behind the pond to soften up the back edge.

Before Photo

Before Photo

Before Photo

Rebuilt Wall End and found a Toad

Before

After

Behind the Caravan

This isn't a very exciting area at the moment. I've cleared it and raked it all over and put carpet down to stop some of the weeds coming through until we are ready to turf it when the frosts are gone.

At the back of the caravan I've just plonked some Laurel stems in the ground and I'm hoping for some heavenly intervention. Lee has planted a couple of lovely old honeysuckles from the Little Orchard fingers crossed they recover and grow in their new place.

Before Photo

Carpet Down

Back of Caravan

Nice Clean Path

A couple of Llamas having a look

Old Garden Chairs and Table to be Painted

Have Counted 8 Llamas altogether

Reinforcing the Dog Fence

Luna got excited a while back when my cousin stopped by with her little girl and wanted to come with us for a walk around the rest of the garden. He started to chew the wire fence and tried to stick his head through the trellis gate so a little deterrent and reinforcement was carried out :)

Lee Reinforcing the Fence

Luna supervising as usual

This is Lee smiling