Day 189

Peony 'Pink Hawaiian Coral'

Day 188

Sunday- first wildlife pond complete! New residents include a bright green newt, some pond scaters and a water beetle.

Day 187

New wildlife pond being investigated by Flea

Day 186

Tulipa 'black parrot'

Day 185

Freesias appearing in random places amongst the wildflowers

Day 184

Wednesday 18th April- we're roughly six months on now. The ground layer is growing back beautifully- loads of wildflowers- and many new things we didn't plant. The upper layer is still black/grey/brown- but if you don't look up when you're walking around the garden, it's a beautiful view ;-)

Day 183

Palms, Iris, Miscanthus, all growing back! (and weeds!!)

Day 182

Today was a good day discovering many of the oak trees are shooting again from higher up the tree

Day 181

 Acer Japonica- not only shooting again but also producing lots of baby seedlings!

Day 180

tiptoe through the tulips

(saturday 14th April)

Day 179

back to basics- a really simple natural soap with honey and oats, and some lavender and grapefruit essential oils

Day 178

 Planting the Christmas Tree

Day 177

Muscari/leopoldia comosa

Day 176

Glorias goats enjoying the lush new growth

Day 175

new bulbs popping up- Fritillaria meleagris


Monday 9th April

Day 174

Day 173

Holm Oak

Leylandii x 6

Cotoneaster x 2

Day 172

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Day 170

New hedge- holly, yew, viburnum, pyracantha

Day 169

Chickens enjoying the new greenery

Day 168

Monday 2nd april

Day 167

Easter Sunday- building a pond

Day 166

Continuing the side terrace wall and making a planting bed.

Day 165

Good Friday

Day 164

Thursday March 29th