Sunset from Hill House, Mount Helen. February 2024

Monday, April 04, 2011

A burst of spring activity

The Under Gardener has been very busy indeed this last week.  The allotment is now all up together and ready for the coming season.  He has dug over the "shrubbery" and pretty much dug everything out between the prickly berberis and the not quite so prickly holly.  He's cut back everything that's left so we can see what we're doing.  He's also made a start on digging over the flower beds.  We are determined to get rid of all of those pesky wild strawberries if it kills us!!!

We were in Wilton over the weekend and called into the garden centre.  We now have a new coenothus and a new rosemary to replace the ones that the snow took out.  They will go in the space in the "shrubbery".  We also have a lovely new hellebore to go in the flower bed, next to the existing one.  There were two, but one seems to have vanished!

And the blossom is coming out.  There is even some on the peach tree, although not yet on the apple or cherry trees.  I am feeling good about the fruit for this coming year :-)

Leeks on the allotment

Fruit trees and bushes all settling in

This tree is not in our garden but in the field at the back. The fruit falls into the garden though

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