Comments on: Our own little patch

By: Anna

Anna — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:49:31 +0000

It is looking good. Pity it’s on top of the septic tank! It’s fine most of the time, just a bit off putting when you are sat there listening to the trickle of water from the water feature only to realise someone has flushed the toilet and you are listening to the trickle of water into the septic tank instead!

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:59:15 +0000

Glad you like it. I guess I do spend quite a bit of time looking after the garden really. It’s taken a while to get it looking nice and overcome the difficulties of having no soil, contending with the wind and the salt air and then the extreme cold of last years winter. We’ve also had the garden dug up a number of times by diggers of various sorts for various reasons which hasn’t helped, but I finally feel as though we are getting somewhere with it.

Of course, now, with the arrival of our bee colonies imminent, the priority has shifted from plants that we like towards plants that the bees will like so I’ll be planting plenty of bee-friendly plants this year.

I’d like to add a bit more height here and there as well, but doing so with the winds we get is going to be difficult. I’d really like to add a tree or two (ones that have bee-friendly blossom of course), but just don’t know how well they’ll cope with the wind.

Al.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 05:12:36 +0000

In reply to Lesley. From Dave via Facebook:

looking forward to seeing it :D

By: Lesley

Lesley — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:05:37 +0000

Al that looks really pretty. Just the right time of year to be able to sit and enjoy the fruits of your labour..