These are four of the five £7.99 rhodos I bought in Aldi as they were in March. They've since all flowered and come on a treat. I'll eventually have to thin them out by removing two and finding another home for them. Our matching sets of three different hebes in their pots in wooden troughs. These used to be situated either side of the tea-house steps, but no one saw them down there other than me. So now they're on the steps to the new patio. The two "indoor Christmas roses" bought in flower, by a friend as a Chistmas present for my wife. I potted them out in January after they died off. There's masses of buds on therm. Stella cherries won't be long now. The birds will be working out how to get at them. Our little acer palmatum taylor is really coming into its own now with more contrast in the colours and the leaves growing larger. The recent rain has done the lawn a power of good. Edited to show missing pictures.
I wish my lawn looked like yours .... a lovely garden indeed!! Advise us on lawn care....pretty please. K Oh my word....the Acer.
Thanks for the kind words. All my lawn gets is a feed now and again with Wilko's cheap soluble lawn food, I never use anything granular as I'll burn it. In the Spring when the grass is growing, it gets the iron sulphate treatment to get kill the moss. This is a continual problem in the early part of the year, as it develops anywhere where there's a lot of shade, like down the whole of the left-hand side and under the acer palmatums. It all dies off and the grass grows usually through the dead moss, which in turn mostly picked up by the mower. I scarified it about three weeks ago, when it was quite dry on the medium height of my 35 year-old B&D lawnraker, "I don't go mad with it." I mow it at least once a week on the middle setting of my Flymo, at this time of the year twice. It hasn't completely recovered from the scarifying you will see, I mowed it this morning. I don't have to do any "edging" on the left-hand side, or around the feature beds as these block paving bricks set in concrete maintain the border. I just run my Flymo over them. On the right hand side I just run my strimmer down the edge where it meets the path. It'll be a couple of weeks before it's back to this standard.
Our daughter lives in West London, she often speaks with my wife on the phone. If the subject of the weather comes up and it's chucking it down in London, to wind her up we always say it's fine up here. We live on the south side of the Mersey Valley. We were in Cheshire until they moved the boundary. We are protected on three sides by hills. We don't really get any bad weather, it's been years since we had any snow to speak of.
