Some Gardening That I Did

kylith

I know there used to be a thread, but for the life of me I can't find it.

This is what my garden looked like on Sunday morning. You can see the line of shadow on the wall, that's the most sun that part of the garden ever gets.


I removed the pile of stones in the corner to discover that there was a plastic liner that had been put in so that a stream effect could be had. For some reason the house's previous owner had covered this in cement, and cemented big rocks to the top of it. This made it Very Difficult to move. Here you can see the liner and some of the rocks. It even had little porcelain Chinese fishermen cemented to it.


And... Done.


Removing the liner and rocks has given me about 33% more ground to plant. I divided my dicentra into 3 (not the best time of year for it, I know) a cranesfoot geranium divided itself into 6 pieces, so I replanted them with the new shoots just sticking out - hopefully they'll get established. I'm thinking of planting that corner with hostas and maiden hair fern... I'd really like some phormiums too... Anyway, I've ordered a soil test kit, so I should be able to make a more informed plan then.

Next weekend I tackle the other corner, and then I'll be painting the whole garden and putting up a new fence.

kylith

Here's the before shot:


I took advantage of the nice weather today and dug up the hated tree. First I undermined it and cut as many roots as I could get my lopper around. Tegan helped by digging in my nice neat pile of dirt, spreading it all over the yard, so that she could eat worms.


When I'd done as much as I could under the tree I attached a chain to the top of the trunk and started rocking it. I'll admit to being slightly worried that it'd bring down the garden wall or the shed. It came down with a little effort; hooray for the priciples of leverage


I cut the branches off, and I'll work out how to get rid of them soon. I don't have a chipper, or any way to get one home if I hired one, but I'll think of something. Unfortunately I cut the wire for the fairy lights, but it could be worse.


Now comes the hard part; figuring out what to do with that corner. I'm thinking of skinning the bark from the trunk, varnishing it, and using it to hang lanterns on.

redser7

Well done, you're persistent

paddy147

Fair play to you for getting stuck in.