21st June 2021The following day, I was inspecting the wall beside the driveway. The wall was built around 1860, using lime mortar. A number of...
20th June 2021Following the scarifying, the worst areas were raked again and then re-seeded. Due to this area being almost constantly in shade,...
I brought back my conifer from being bald. One side had been hidden by another dying plant, so it never got any sun light. Once the dead plant was...
There's no space ( really ) or plan for a compost heap. Most of the large volume of material being removed was a one off job, to clear the garden...
I also discovered the old, partially rotten driveway gate. Now this got me thinking and a plan was forming. I could fix this and make use of it as...
After a short time admiring the colours, it was back to work. The Hawthorn along the back of the garage was very over-grown, so we did some...
12th June 2021By mid June, the patio was coming to life, with various plants flowering. The slated area in front of the sun room was looking...
3rd June 2021More hedge cutting. This time it was the Hawthorn. We bought a shredder and chopped up and bagged all the cuttings, as this...
29th May 2021Spring was well under way by late May and the Laurel had gone crazy. It was over four feet tall and around three feet wide in...
11th April 2021The day started well, scarifying the lawn. We just had a little electric scarifier, which was fine for our small Washington front...
The following day, which I think was Easter Monday, we got rid of a lot of the really woody Lavender. It hadn't been well kept and was very dead...
The rain stopped, so it's gone. I've just finished all the paths and patio extensions, kept about 80 good bricks and the rest have gone. It's the...
Right now, I'm looking out of the window at the pouring rain, thinking about all the things that need doing in the garden. Particularly a large...
3rd April 2021We needed the stumps of the conifer hedge removed in order to extend the concrete. A little digging revealed a low wall of really...
2nd April 2021It was Easter Weekend when the guys came to cut down the trees. We apologised to the neighbours for the noise, but they said the...
29th March 2021On the 29th, we finally started a little pruning in the garden. We had quite a bit of preparation to do before our building work...
When we bought the house, our old home in Washington was in an unconnected house chain and so for some time, we owned both houses. This worked out...
Our previous home was a 3 bed semi detached in the middle of a housing estate. Surrounded by houses, we couldn't see the horizon. Our new home was...
Yes it did. It doesn't now for various reasons, but it was airworthy between 1995 and 2004, which is when it last flew.[IMG][IMG]
The woodland on the left was going to be chopped. This was my southern view and the location for my trailer hardstanding, observatory, some...
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