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Friday 21 May 2010

Global bath for high flyers

I picked up a discarded dustbin lid this week, sensing it could come to good use. Simultaneously, my MTF (most travelled friend) decided to shed a collection of stones she had collected from around the world. The rest is obvious. My plot now has the most luxurious bird bath any high flyer could dream to splash in, surrounded by pink quartz, petrified wood, hues of turquoise, greys, black, sandstone. My feathered friends just have to find it...

Tuesday 18 May 2010

Allotment Rules...

and if you can't beat them...
Because our paths are quite narrow, any construction has to be 9" inside our own plots to enable wheelbarrows etc to move freely and safely around. This takes valuable growing space, created a ridiculous shady passage on my plot and my chest looked stranded. And then an offer for convallaria majalis (lilies of the valley) plopped into my inbox. The obvious spot. I ordered 9, stuffed them in with a pile of organic matter, gave them a good water and they are already filling out and hopefully on the march.