What are we doing in the garden 2025

They're gorgeous @shiny, your wife is very talented.

 

They are beautiful @shiney.

 

It wasn't raining that much in the morning so I managed to do an hour of shovelling clay from the mountain to the mound (that will eventually become a sloping bed for sun lovers).

I met the layer of the horrible yellow sub- clay that we dug up from the pond site and bagged it to be taken away. It's incredible how different the layers of the soil are, the top 1m is lovely black clay improved over the years and underneath there is this yellow thing that feels like cutting my spade into a giant firm slug

A few more hours of arranging the soil and mixing in sand and compost and it should be ready for planting. Botanical tulips are waiting in their bags and I'll move the Echinops from their temporary home there too.

Then it was the Dr Jekyll/ Mrs Hyde time to scrape and wash the mud off my person, slip into a going-out gear and meet friends in town.

Halfway through the meal I noticed the state of my nails and decided to use knife and fork on my sandwitches

 

Lovely work Mrs. S !!