Peter has been working hard in the garden in May. I've been supervising.
He's painted recoated the shed and the raised beds and set up a watering system on the raised beds for me.
With the extension pipe fixed on the wall in the back garden it's made it a lot easier to water the garden now.
I've been using this Ikea planter for the over run from the waterbutt and fill up the watering cans and use them first to water the pots and collect rain water in this buckets. The neighbours child came round needing rainwater for a new house plant he had bought.
The brick wall under the canopy is going to be clad with wooden panels. Peter is measuring up this week. We're going to display my late fathers random collection of road signs, car parts and pub memorabilia and I want to put up some hooks for coats, a chalk board and some other random items.
The last job for the back garden is to move these path over to the left, it's for aesthetic purposes only, but the fir tree, jsut in the shot needs digging up and a lot of soil needs to be moved to the front garden, o it can wait a bit longer.
We have some gorgeous flowers blooming and some buds waiting to flower. I hope I don't miss them as I'm in Northern Ireland this week. I've asked Peter to send me some photos if they do.
The neighbours rose bush in the front garden and it smells divine.
May is of course the RHS Spring Festival in Malvern. My friend came with me on the Sunday. I also visited on the Thursday after work.
There were interesting talks with TV gardeners and chefs
Fantastic blooms
Fab displays
Gold medal gardens
Lots of ideas to take home and recreation, if not on a smaller scale.
Your garden is looking great and well done Peter! The watering system looks fantastic. I've just had Stu sorting the hosepipe to fix the back of our garden. How wonderful that you are going to display your fathers memorabilia.
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