Planting at last !

The really exciting picture ! Michael found that Homebase were selling off half price climbing roses, so we got this one, and with a bit of help from Ivan planted it on the trellis closest to Miranda's. It looked so good, we decided to go for a symmetrical bed at the back and bought a second one for the other side just before they sold out. Michael's acanthus plants seem to be coming along well, so they will soon be joining the roses along the back wall.
Still looking for good ideas for the middle trellis.

Front corner clear !

I only seem to be able to do one picture at a time at the moment, so here's the one of the front corner, all nice and clear. This may not look much, but it actually took ages to get it out.
One other plus is that the brambles that used to predominate in this corner don't seem to be there for the moment, but let's not speak too soon.

Bad news for Angie, but good news for the garden, lots of worms around when we were digging.

Back from holidays

Good old Nathan ! All those hours in the gym weren't wasted when you can help with digging up those enormous stumps of shrubs that are just too heavy for most of us.
Grabbing a window of opportunity between work, rugby and the gym, he successfully managed to winkle out the two big stumps at the back and the small rather spiky one in the front corner.
This was inspired by some stalwart work from Ivan and Carol who have been back on the weeding patrol again, so the back wall and what will be the centre bed are now looking very respectable.