I think I may be becoming a fanatic, well, maybe not quite; although I did find myself outside in the rain this morning pulling weeds and re-arranging pots!? The garden really has quite a lure to me, being confined to quarters over the winter and suffering a wee bit with cabin fever really makes you appreciate being able to get outside … of course, being fortunate enough to live in a beautiful part of the country helps too!
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been making the most of the good weather doing some chores in the garden, like installing an outside tap (I hate plumbing with a passion) and building a retaining wall – amongst other odds and ends.
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I don’t have a good history with plumbing projects going back to a project when we first moved into our current house when a plan to replace the element in the immersion tank took around 4-5 days and ended up with me having to remove and replace the entire tank, then there’s been the radiators and pipes that have burst and the cursing that occurs whenever a newly jointed pipe turns out to not be water tight … seriously, you have no idea!
Fortunately I had no such problems with the plumbing this time around … maybe I’m getting better at it. The wall took a little longer than I had anticipated and massively more mortar than I’d have imagined was possible, it looks like it’s about to fall over in the picture but that’s as a result of some, er, clever photography. Maybe I should find a clever photographer to explain it!
As luck would have it though the garden has some wee gems in it at the moment, and as I mentioned earlier the area we live in is beautiful. It all helps to lower my blood pressure. Here are a few samples of what’s going on in the garden just now:
Strawberries are beginning to flower, yum!
Black Currant blooms. Plain flowers, yummy berries!
Some pretty lilac flowers - does anyone know what they're called?
Blue Bells, except they're white ...
Pretty blue 'weed'
Black Currant (or possibly red) berries coming along nicely
You may notice that the currants feature twice, we’re fortunate enough to have quite a few and I’ve discovered this year that they’re easily propagated, something I’m hoping to do more of once the polytunnel has arrived and been assembled. I’m not sure if it’s something we’ve mentioned on here previously but we decided to invest in large (14′ x 30′) poly-tunnel as our site is extremely exposed which can make growing much of anything extremely difficult. More on that at a later date though.
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