Last year’s attempt at making a rockery was pretty poor – see below!
After seeing some pretty impressive rock gardens at Gardening Scotland last month it gave us a lot of inspiration and now, after a lot of back breaking stone-humping, we have a much more decent affair. We felt it best to leave our established plants in situ so it’s not necessarily planted the way I would have from scratch but I’m pretty pleased with it nonetheless.
And so it looks like the moment I’ve been eagerly awaiting for weeks has now arrived- the first ‘serious’ snow – it’s been threatening a while but it looks like this coming week is it.
This is one of the heathers we planted in our new rockery a few months back – it looks rather lovely with it’s dusting.
A warm, if somewhat cloudy day sees in the weekend. We’re off in to town later to enjoy a bbq in someone else’s garden but this morning we made time to do a few more things in our own.
Peas are now staked & lifted out of their ground-bound tangle
I suddenly realised that the peas should probably be staked, especially as they’re all in a tangle and starting to blossom so cut down some bamboo canes and sorted that – a 2 minute job and they look so much better already. Continue reading We Have a Rockery – Sat 14th June→
A glorious morning, although we knew heavy rain was on it’s way so a brief bit of pottering this morning led us to find that some old tomato plants we’d given up on were started to bear fruit so tomorrow when the weather’s better we’ll try & mend our upside down tomato grower and see how we get on (less earth this time so hopefully it’ll not fall down).
Oops! The result of last night’s cat v puppy pre-bedtime chase!