1) One of the "shrubs" at the back blossomed, and turned out to be an almond tree. Result!
2) In April, it snowed:
Pretty!
3) I made a shade chart in around May, to figure out where to put the vegetable bed. Turns out it will be quite a good use for the bare ground left by the anhililation of the nasty furry-leaved weed patch.
4) It rained. And rained. And rained some more.
5) I marked out the area for the veg patch and covered it with black plastic for the remainder of the growing season, having read somewhere that this would kill off any further weeds in the ground by denying them sunlight. Hmm. We'll see...
6) We replanted the lawn. This happened sporadically, as I was using the "glycophosphate as many celendines and dandylions as I can see, dig over and put down new grass seed in the resulting bare patch" method. Pretty stupid really, as it kills off at least as much grass as weeds. Spouse did point this out, but there's a reason I sign these posts "Contrary Mary". Lesson learned. I'm using a trowel now.
7) There was a warm spell, resulting in much lawn growth.
8) I might have killed off the Japanese Knotweed in the gravel and behind the shed. But I'm not putting money on it (despite it's being a better bet than shares in Morgan Stanley).
9) The squirrels ate all our pears.
10) Spouse got some garden furniture.
It promptly started raining again.
Spouse not impressed.
So here's how things looked at the end of August:
Wednesday, 17 September 2008
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