I have uploaded some photos that John took yesterday. He needs to get out and take some more in the morning, as some of the photos face the sun which is always difficult.
Here is the link:
https://pygardens.co.uk/day-by-day-in-the-garden/15-4-13
The lovely cat featured is Henry and I made sure I had permission from his owners to post his photo on here! Our cat Marmalade only comes out in the good weather, but I’m sure she’s in a few photos somewhere…..
We have feathered visitors – one male and two female pheasants, wood pigeons and raven’s also getting in on the act. It is the raven’s that I mind. I can put up with the pigeons (we have had no more kamikaze incidents), but big black birds with big beaks I find rather intimidating.
Mark has cut back the willow, which we do each year – I had to rack my brain for the word ‘pollarded’ but that is it! I’ll have to have a photograph close up of the gnarled stumps that are left. This willow is opposite the pond, and is in the bed where the accidental pruning of the weigela and philadelphus occurred. There is a forsythia next to the pond which needs a severe pruning. it doesn’t flower very well, even though I prune it after flowering. It probably needs ripping out and being replaced with a better flowering shrub.
The next garden project to be undertaken will be building the log store. It is going to go on the south facing end of the lunch patio, which we have abandoned using as a lunch patio for a while now – preferring the breakfast patio just outside our patio doors. I have sat out there in my PJ’s as it offers that much privacy!
We have to decide what to do with the old patio wood table that used to belong there – resite it or get rid of it? I think it would be a shame to lose it, but evidently one of the legs is unstable. Oh well, we will just have to see……
