Daffodils

The finially Daffodiles have died in our garden - obviously at their hieght we had many different types - Barabara said she'd never seen so many of them in the garden before - I've missed a few types like the really fluffy dwarf ones but I photographed as many as possible - here they are:

Walnut Tree

I was going to writ a nice post about how well Jeans Walnut tree is doing, it was in budding nicely and looking really good so I thought - I must remember to take a phot of that for the blog - I went back the next day with the camera only to discover that the deer have munched it

So in hope that it can recover we fashioned a deer protector out of some chicken wire - as its actually two bits of chicken wire its not that sturdy and kept flopping over so we had to use one of the hooks for our garden lantens to keep it in place.

We're hoping its not too late :'(

Of Waterfalls and Wooden Planks

After the heavey rain the plank of wood that goes over the top of the waterfall to raise the level of water in the water garden (the pond) was missing - we found it at the bottom of the water fall - here are some pics of Alaric and Babara getting it back out again.

Clearing the dead stuff

End of April and the beginning of May we discovered is the time to clear out all those dead plants and things that sit there in the flower beds dwarfing the flowers that they were last year.

You snap the dead stuff off which is really easy most of the time and then its bomfire time which as pyros is fun

Jean decided to help

New Turf Path

Over six week ago now we cleared our veggi plot and split it in half with a turf path - mainly becuase I couldnt reach things easily to water/weed them - the trueth is I still struggle slightly with this but the path has made things alot easier. Here are some photos of the process - complete with Jean 'helping'