Welsh Witch's Garden
March 2004.
We hope we've now seen the very last of the frost! Now the work begins in preparation for a wonderful spring and summer.
Isn't this fun! Every greenhouse we've had has been blown down so this time we've decided to weld it to the garden wall.
We were very lucky to be given lots of wood from shops that were being pulled down. My partner seen above with his head stuck through the roof pulled out all the old nails and put together this very large ediface! Its 17'6 X 11'6. The sides will have horticultural glass and the top will be corrugated perspex. The wood has been preserved with green Cuprinol.
Tomorrow the perspex is being delivered and also the paving slabs to go up the centre walkway of the greenhouse. To the right of the greenhouse is a very spendid honeysuckle. We look over wall and across rose Mme Gregoire Staechlin, Rose Agnes and a smallish laburmum tree to the Welsh mountains in the distance.
The garden work has begun in earnest as the tempests sweeping across the garden have destroyed the beautiful Pagan tree and knocked branches from the Leylandii. The tree that held up the one end of the washing line is in pieces ready to burn .
The dogs have made a huge mush of the front garden. What a chapter of accidents...however the suns shines and brings in a huge upsurge of energy and delight.
I am standing here in the middle of the vegetable garden looking up the new walkway I am trying to make. Taking up the turf and loading it onto the tractor resulted in a twisted back slipped disc...don't do it.... lift a heavy weight and then turn!! The osteopaths rub their hands with glee in the Spring!!
The trouble with buying mixed bags of daffodils is that they don't all come out at the same time!
Global warming? It hasn't affected us here very much!! We're still all rushing to get a daffodil out for St David's Day (March 1st)!! No advance on that! Always its those in south Wales by the sea who win the race...just!
The big red roller is there waiting for slightly dryer weather to do the grass and fill in the holes made by the enormous feet of the invading cows......we're hoping we've seen the last of the frost, but the local myth says "Wait till after the Shrewsbury Show to put in bedding plants"
We have had the invasions of cows and sheep from the next door farmer's fields. We're now putting some very spikey but decorative roses in the hedges specially recommended is Rosa Paulii and some of the rugosa roses
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