Job's Worth

I was hoping to report on our sign, but The Man from Ascham Homes was less than helpful, and has responded to my polite request to move his sign by saying he won't and has now added another sign to our wall. I have been keeping our councillor informed about this, but Miranda has agreed to attend the next Community Council Meeting with me, so I'll bring it up again. Did anyone else notice that the picture of our garden was featured in a Labour Party newsletter? We are hoping to renew the edging to the paths this year, Mick has some good ideas we can discuss at the Garden Party which I will shortly be organising, as we did not have one at Christmas this year.

The Spring has sprung...

I was reminded by an e-mail from Ivan that I haven't been keeping the blog up to date, so here we go again.
Spring has really arrived in the garden, the daffodils have made a lovely show and even the little ones round the centre bed did not let us down, which was a bit of a relief as Ivan and Carol had reported that they hadn't had much success with these.
We did suffer some very low key vandalism on Mothers' Day, luckily Miranda was around to point out to the boy and girl who helped themselves to a free bunch of flowers that they had picked enough. Michael later reported a second urchin who helped himself about half an hour later. Let's hope we made two mums happy.

Team Work

A brilliant scheme to water the garden, involving Barry and Miranda's hose, and a piece of string. Some excellent team work and a good idea from Mick means we can now give the garden a good soaking when it needs it.

Late posting, this is May when the arch went up. I don't seem to have the same relationship with this camera, and lost the pictures briefly. Mick was an absolute star and cemented the arch in to prevent it going walkabout, and it's such a lovely thing you could well imagine someone wanting it. Lots of discussions about which roses to grow on it, but it appears we've missed the growing season this year, and will have to get our roses in November.

It's a real success, but without Mick I don't think we could have managed. Well done him !

Well done Barry and Miranda

The new fence along the boundary with number 41 really finishes the garden off and gets rid of the last images of it being uncared for.
Note how beautifully Tony and Malcolm's azalea is flowering, rather better than the one in their own garden even!
I have put in some more flowers in the middle bed, and I planted a Penelope rose from our garden in there too, as a little statement piece.
We have lots of little seedlings growing out the back, so as long as we get a bit of sun, we should be able to maintain some colour out there.
The tall daffs need to come out as they obscure the back border, we can replant them in September.

Bursting into Spring

Good news from Tony !
He has spoken to Yvonne, the person doing the Better Neighbourhood thing for our area and she is going to get us a plaque for the garden. It can go over the sign at the back that isn't very lovely and doesn't do much for the garden.
I'm going to start work on removing the front shrubs now they have flowered.
Anyone with a few minutes to spare can help by doing a bit of weeding in the back border.
If you only have five minutes, you could try to get a couple of big weeds out of the paths.
We need to dig over the strip by the fence and add some manure, too.

The path is starting to take shape, and as the bulbs are also starting to come through, let's hope this will encourage people over to the garden to tidy up a bit. We've put down 2 bags of bark and there's a third waiting to go down. We're leaving the side along the driveway where Tony planted the daffodils, as that is where the rose arch will be going, but that will be a big job and require a bit of help from Mick to ensure we get it in securely.