Plans

                    🌶️🫛🫑🍅   Hooray ! More vegetable happiness ! 🍅🫑🫛🌶️

Another hot day  and I will have to wait until the sun goes behind the trees to get started on this ....

So from far left to far right things have got to change !  ( a bit like politics at the moment , but I'm not going into all that .....sigh )

As I was saying  - Plans for when the birds have stopped nesting - Fir tree on the left is going to be cut down to the height of the fence . 

Branch of next doors Crab Appletree which we allowed to grow through the fence , which used to flower and have the most beautiful red crab apples is dying . So I am going to saw it off and repair the fence .

Pittosporum - I will be lopping down by two thirds .  It can then spread out and really set off the Photinia "Red Robin" that is at the end of the Cornish hedge on the far left . 

Photinia "Red Robin " needs another prune to keep it's gorgeous red leaves coming  . 

After the Pittosporum is a pretty variegated Holly and my favourite Camelia "Water Lily", with it's pale pink flowers with pointy petals just like a water lily ! 🪷

Rowan Trees -two of them - one of my favourite trees - Remind me of when I used to play in the woods . We lived on the edge of the wonderful Abbey Woods .🌳🌳 I used to know every track and tree .🍃🌳 Ancient Tumuli , where to find the best fossils , grass snakes and gather the fattest Sweet Chestnuts 🍂, the shortcut home from St Josephs Convent School , the Abbey ruins at the bottom (  I have an ancestral link to that place - there's more to this world than we will ever understand , but that's a story for another day ! ...maybe Halloween  👻😮 ) The immaculate gardens , the smart park keepers and the little cafe . I expect it is all changed now ...I hope not too much .

I wonder if the Rowan Trees are still there ? At the top of the woods 🌿🌿🌿

Their sprays of bright orange red berries ..so lovely !  

Echiums - the Giant Eeks ! - Lots of seedlings coming for next year .

Cotinus coggygria - Also known as the Smoke Bush -  I am taking off the two tallest branches , which I kept to allow it to show off it's "smoking" flowers .So then we can see the lovely variegated Holly and Camelia "Water Lily "  I will keep the lowest branches, which will really set off the Chamaerops humilis .

Chamaerops humilis - I am (eventually trust me 🤣) going to drastically tidy up .

..and weed the bit in the foreground ....Agave , Irises , Pink Rose , Dahlias , Cowslips .

The row of yellow fir trees - I keep to the height of the fence and I planted them to buffet the wind from the fence . Also home to little birds nesting .

Monkey Puzzle - Which I grew from seed/nut is now about four feet high .Is looking fabulous already .

It gets better with every year !  Is looking fabulous already . 

The other side of the Monkey Puzzle is the bed of "dinner plate" type Dahlias that my lovely daughter gave me . They should be starting to bloom soon .

The Sweet Pea Tub - so when the Sweet peas finished , I had planned to plant this up with Pelargoniums ....but then noticed that the Black -Eye Suzies that I grew last year , where all coming up again !  

                                     So I am leaving them to do their thing ! 

                                  It's one of my mum's favourite plants .

              Oh !  😮 I see Ricardo has brought Rosie the wheelbarrow down ......🤣

                                       O.K.   I get the hint !

                                                   ☀️

                                    Love and hugs Debbie 💐x