| Spring at Holmcroft in its full glory. |
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| Spring 2011 |
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| A little soon perhaps? |
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| A new beginning? |
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| The men get to work. |
The camomile bank has not worked well for the past two years as the planting
here have been causing the plants to die off as a large shadow was cast by the conifers. Add to this the fact that the
conifers were also dead in the centre so it was time to call it a day. We are thinking of putting a set of steps in
here so keep watching for an update!
The very large conifers had grown way out of hand as it was thought that it was time
for them to go. They cast a large shadow over the patio and also caused one side of the bank to have very dry soil while
the other side of the bank the soil is heavy with clay all of which gave the camomile a real problem.
The under gardener and I decided that was this was going to be a most important feature
in the garden so it was worth investing in the job being done by professionals. We had a local company spent two days
here and did a wonderful job on these steps and we are just delighted.
| Planted up and looking good. |
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The under gardener took this picture just after I had finished planting
up with box plants and filled the two centres with bedding plants which were raised in the greenhouse. We have not decided
what to replace the camomile with so this year we shall just go with the African marigolds.
| The arbor seat compleated. |
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| The under gardener's garden! |
My lovely new (that is new to us) granite bowel. As you can
see it is on a plinth in this shot. We have since taken it off as we were worried children might tip it over and believe
me when I tell you that it weighs a ton!!
This rose walk was put together at the end of 08. The BIG problem
turned out to be rabbits who made a meal out of several of the roses and they had to be replaced. The under gardener
shot three of the rabbits, this would normally upset me very much but at this point I had quite lost patience with them.
The Woodland Walk - In Spring
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| The woodland walk get a face lift. |
A long held ambition of the under gardener has been to put a "proper"
path through the woodland garden. March 2010 and work begins. It proved much harder than expected but when it
was finished we were both delighted with the effect.
| The begining of the work. |
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| A project for the under gardener! |
| The new path through our little wood |
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The path into the wood had just been covered with
fresh chippings. The Under Gardener had plans for this path and it has now been completed. This area now look much
better and will be planted up later in the year to add more interest to the path.
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