Ornamental Garden update

And in the Kitchen Garden:

(If you look very, very carefully, you can see the grapevines!)

So. Things are moving along in the ornamental garden. The Builder has now finished digging up the grass and putting in the new beds. There is still the raised bed to dismantle and the patio to lay (I think we will need more bricks!) but all the beds are in place. He is now putting a step down into the kitchen garden from the right hand side of the patio - it's quite a drop on that side. We've put a trellis up next to the passionflower on the fence and stuffed in a honeysuckle which was lifted from my friend Sue's garden. I've also put in some, but by no means all, of the daffodil bulbs that Barb gave me in January. Roger has now added to my delight by giving me a rubbish bag full of snowdrops!

We have decide to keep the grass "patio" that the picnic table is on. Now that we have a proper grass cutter there's no practical reason to get rid of it, and it is nice to have a picnic table on lawn. The wine glasses bounce if they should fall off the table!

In the vegetable garden, there are now four raised beds, three of which need extra soil adding to them. They should be nice and ready for the next sowings of broad beans and for the first peas. The Builder decided not to make a trellis himself and we bought a ready made one at B&Q for the grapevines (which you can hardly see so far - but I'm sure they'll grow eventually!!)

Most of the fruit trees have blossom and leaf buds on them. All the soft fruit are doing well, apart from one single gooseberry bush which looks as though it has given up. Have no idea why; the others are all doing fine. If it shows no sign of perking up in the next week or so, I'll replace it - with another red one, if I can find one.

Next task for me is tidying, then weeding. And finding out when the herb nurseries re-open. And The Builder is definitely turning his attention now to the allotment!