New garden.

Lots of work to do but I'm sure you will make a good job of it. Isn't it nice to have a lovely person to help you. Many hands make light work !! Don't over do it.
Love Marjorie

Thanks Marjorie, I am just doing a little bit at a time. Although at the moment, its frozen over !

It looks as if it's coming along quite nicely. 'Rome wasn't built in a day' as they say ...
I'm pleased to hear you are widening the borders, that's what I would also do. Shrubs and flowering plants are more interesting than grass and you can never get too many :D

I don't suppose the previous occupiers were interested in gardening (or didn't have time) and tried to have only some 'low maintenance' shrubs, but I am also pleased to know you are going to remove the membrane that's currently suffocating your new garden.

Good luck ! Keep us updated won't you :)

Thanks Hywel. Its going to be a long hard job ! I think all the plants will heave a sigh of relief when I can get to the soil and feed them.

Hi Rose! I guess I’m a bad penny too.

Jack sounds like the ideal neighbour! Your plans look exciting and just the thing to inspire at the beginning of the year.

All the very best to you and Rick, and a belated happy new
year.

Susanne (Melchisedec)

Well Rose, it is already starting to look like 'your' garden after a lot of hard work and a few surprises along the way! It must have been hard to decide what to do to get the look you wanted but I think you now know exactly what you hope to achieve.

Lots of luck with it and Jack will lend a hand if needed I am sure!

What a great friend Jack is! There are some jobs some of us just can't manage alone any more...
You've worked very hard and its definitely paying off. Sending you lots of sympathy re the membrane and gravel -sounds like a priority to get rid of that! I remember you mentioning it before - a very unpleasant surprise it must have been. Thak goodness for containers to keep us cheered as the big works go on!

Thanks Susanne, I just wish Jack lived next door to us here! I used to pop my head over the fence and he would always say "what do you need doing now Rose !" Hahaa!

Thanks Chris. All the ideas are just in my head at the moment ! My next plan was to send for a 5 foot wide arch as I have a Trachlespermum Jasminoides which needs to go in the ground. It didn't do any good in a pot, but as you can see from the pictures, there are not many places to plant it, plus it has to be in the sun. The sun faces the hedge ! Need I say more ! This arch is going in the rose bed, but just don't know where ! I sent for it on impulse too! I just like making problems for myself, don't I !

Thanks Stera ! I never expected Jack to come here from Laceby. In fact I thought we might have lost touch and am so glad that we haven't !

Good luck, Rose, with your latest garden projects.. it will be interesting to see how those areas are looking in the spring/summertime.

Thank you Terra ! I can't wait for the weather to improve so that I can get on with it.

You did it Rose! Photos are on, sorry I was no hope at all though. I'm sure the plans for the garden that are currently in your head, will soon be put into place in the garden!

I hope so Shirley ! I just need some good gardening weather now !

Sorry I was no HELP, not HOPE!!!

It's been blowing a gale down here today and the waves were almost over the prom at one point in Worthing, not nice. Hope it calms down soon ...

Its okay Shirley, I knew what you meant ! Hahaa!
Its been awful here too and my green house ( a thick plastic one ) survived being picked up and put in a furniture van, only after all this time and the strong winds , one of the sides broke ! Its just lucky that our friend Jack had screwed the frame to the house wall otherwise the whole green house would have blown away !

Thank goodness Jack had the foresight to secure it to the wall!