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Chairs Garden

Beautiful Weather for a catch-up on jobs

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Garden

One proud new owner

This Years Sunflowers
Lavatera on the banking
Companion planting
A good sized cabbage
Brassicas in abundance this year
Brussels and tomatoes
Flowers everywhere but no a courgette to eat.
Looking forward to Kale Crisps
Ruth is rightly proud of the sunflower growth, but they are being given a run for their money by the bolted brassica.
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Garden Sculpture

Wildlife and Sculpture

I decided that Ruth had made a nice sculpture combining a plea for peat free compost and a protest about plastic bags.
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A little video Tour

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Chairs Garden

Jigsaw puzzle and no bats

I decided to see if I could make a small bench from pieces left over from chair making, but I haven’t solved the jigsaw puzzle yet. I sat outside the shed and loved the light on the flax, roses and other plants then came inside as it got colder. Instead of closing the curtains I put off the lights and watched for bats, but there were only my own creations flying around. I’ll be generous and assume it was the cold and not the neighbour’s light polution that kept them away.
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Generate your own Zoom Background

My home made office chair with spare and small copies of bits of work behind and around the walls.
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Spring Sprung

The more formal Front
A crop of sloes Later?
Willow shoots good or bad?
It is still moving from cold to hot and back again, but the garden is giving little gifts all the time. Ruth’s much loved magnolias, wild sloes flowering and the willow arch, made over winter, showing shoots.

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Nature and pottering

We had quite a lot of snow recently, which gave us an excuse for staying inside and watching nature. At one point we had 3 female and one male pheasants in the garden. The snow also gave the chance to spot tracks, including evidence of the supected badger that has been digging up the paths for worms. On a nice day I cut some willow from the bottom of the garden and made an arch on the entrance to one of the paths.
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Getting Outdoors

Growing Log Pile
Logs for next year
Evergreens
Evergreens come into their own
Brash Piles
Brash pile awaiting log sorting to kindling and shredding for the paths.
Asking to be made into cup mats
Each year the garden develops a whole load of log and brash piles, as the trees get pruned. Slowly they then get brought to the top and processed. In the absence of a lot of flowers, the evergreens, skeletal trees and the colours of the logs and brash piles add a nice pictorial element to make you smile.
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This Year

Fuchsias from cuttings
Flowerpot Sunflowers
Meadow Beds

It has been a funny year of course but work is well underway preparing for winter and next year. 100m of hedges cut, trees trimmed, meadow beds cut, scarified and extra perennials and seeds added, more cuttings started. Manure has been hauled and is waiting to rejuvenate beds, pumkins have been collected and stored, late vegetables are being picked and used, we have started using the wood cut and stored last year. There is always more to do but looking at the meadow bed as it is now, reminds me of its earlier glory.