The Rockery in June
Someone pointed out recently that I hadn’t updated my posts about the rockery I started last year. Well here’s what it looks like now. Read more
Building a Rockery (or Chinese Alpine secret garden!) (Part 2)
Here’s what the arch looks like today: Under those 8 inches of snow you would see a roof. The roof itself is made from a red ‘coroline’ bituminous sheet from B&Q. It supported by the frame that you could see in the previous blog post; the support isn’t designed to hold much weight but it seems to be doing ok with the snow. And overall has a bit of a chinese feel to it. The Read more
Building a Rockery (or Chinese Alpine secret garden!) (Part 1)
A couple of months back Min went on holidays to the UK for a week. While she was away I brought my Mum to a local nursery to buy some plants. While there she found a honeysuckle plant and I thought it would make a nice addition to our garden to cover up wall that prior to that only had ivy growing on it for 15 years. I’m sure it looked nice back when the Read more