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Again Thank you every one for your help......I think it is just one of those problems, the more you look at the more lost you get !..I have plumbed for the seaside effect. I have actually tried to avoid this for a long while because I am seaside mad, I spend as much time as I can down in Dorset, my kitchen is decorated nautically..and I am teased constantly by my family....so I thought if I do the garden in the same vain it will push DH and kids off the edge!...But the pull is too great and seaside is what it will be..(deep inside I am filled with relief and happyness!) So this weekend I will start (weather permitting) and I will enter my little problem as a blog and you can all shout at me when I do a bit wrong !
Thanks all again
P.S. Going for the fatsia and coloured pots....wonder if sea cabbage will grow ?