Last word

With all the rain did I really expect the slugs not to make an appearance?

Cat (not) on a hot tin roof.

Pleased to see that the cat from next door is making full use of our wood shed.

With the rain for the past, how long? Three months? Here are the salvias that nearly stopped me from gardening. After Luke grew them lovingly from seed, the slugs made short work of them.

Soul destroying! Still, in the greater scheme of things it's not really a big deal.

End of the rainbow.

What's at the end of a rainbow? Not so much a pot of gold but a quarter of hens.

If you can make it out, the hen house is at the bottom of the arc.

Hard rock cafe.

The weather still continues to cling onto it's powerful control and things have been nigh on impossible to get in the garden. Yesterday I mowed the lawn as the rain set in only to see brilliant sunshine an hour later. On the whole it has been too wet to venture into the garden but last weekend we did manage to get a rockery built in a day. Check it out..,

 19 pots of bargain plants for mass appeal.

 The original view, before the work was started.

 The plants - six new alpines and some instant colour in the form of the yellow Gerberas.

The mishappen tree that I have tried to correct with pruning but really is not up to scratch so needs must...., out it comes!

 Having a sit down before the hard work.

 

Although the rockery was pretty in the springtime it really isn't anything to look at now so it needs a proper tidy up. With Luke's help we removed the rocks and plants, added compost and sand and then rebuilt the rockery. When I say 'we' I have to admit that Luke did most of the work as a neighbour nabbed me for a chat whilst Luke kept going. He's a wonder!

All the plants and rocks out, the ground is dug over, improved and levelled.

 

 Luke at the bottom of slope, doing all the hard work.

 Here are the rocks, graded and ready to go back in again.

The rocks start going back in.

Nice work, Luke.

 

 

Now time for the plants.

 

 Once the alpines in between the rocks were added we could work our way up the slope.

 Luke has done the hard work - just a shame we don't have more rocks.

 In go all the original plants.

Almost there.

 We positioned the plants to see how they looked before we committed ourselves.