Bad weather has meant garden work has been delayed so a dry Saturday was welcome despite the sodden ground! As wet and saturated as things were, the lawn edges had a Chris treatment before we turned our attention the Christmas tree and its lighting. Now I should explain that Chris gave us this little tree a couple of years ago. Its managed to get going despite competing with thirsty conifer roots but it hasn't put on much top growth yet. In an effort to bulk it out and make it bigger and thicker, we decorated it with holly, ivy and rose hips. Round the base, we placed silver birch logs and boughs of conifer. We then bound it in multi coloured lights. I'm seriously hoping we don't have any high winds as it will completely wrecked!
Maybe it looks rather too natural as we wondered if it looked more like a compost heap in daylight!! It actually looks much more impressive at night.
However, a much better Saturday this week. We were relieved to have dry weather and some sunshine which allowed seasonal garden work to continue apace. Our 2 year old homemade leaf mould was used to mulch the old Aspen Grove which really should be renamed to the Birch Grove since we removed the ever suckering Aspens and replaced them with Acers and multi-stemmed silver birch. Chris also mulched the lower border with homemade compost and we lifted and stored the Dahlias. This year we even labeled them all - that is, all but one which was nameless and had lost its label!
