This is more a progress report.
The pot movers under the 10 Apta ceramic pots containing roses are now a uniform colour since I sprayed them, so they're a uniform colour.
I've also put the usual dab of silicone on the drain hole I drilled in them, so they'll retain excess water in the warmer months.
The roses are growing well and show no sign of blackspot and are aphid free, but it's early days yet.
The wisterias have responded well as usual to the hard pruning between Christmas and New Year. Here's one example. The three pots of primroses on the patio steps have been flowering for four months.
There'll be a few hundred blooms again this year.
Lots of blooms on the trailing branches ion the pergola next to the garage.
I've re-wired the side fence and temporarily attached the wisteria in a lowered position until we've replaced all the other panels. I'm waiting on my neighbour, but it's "like an ivy jungle" his side and covers about four other panels, plus it's more than ankle deep in his border next to the fence. I don't envy him the job, but I'm not helping, I advised against growing ivy up it after I errected the fence fifteen years ago. At the moment it's not a problem for me. Putting in the other new panels will only take about an hour, when he's ready. I can then "rehang" the wisteria.
Jobs to do.
I need to get into the rockery and dig out the clumps of grass in the phlox. I might do that today.
Everything is coming along nicely (except the lawn, it'll be months before that's right).
The tea-house is looking a bit dowdy. I've opened the vents at the top top and at the bottom of the back wall, so my jukeboxes don't get "cooked" if it's very sunny. They like it to be room temperature at most. It'll get a bit of a re-paint when there's two or three days when it's dry. It gets either a partial or full repaint nearly every year, as it's only made of soft wood and roofing ply, but that's why it's still rot free after 35 years.
Same with the pagoda.
I'll get the jetwash on it and give that a re-paint too.
'arry the hedgehog's "summerhouse" should arrive on Monday.
It's the same as present one. (eBay photo)
But I'm going to drill a few ventilation holes in the top of the back wall, (above where you can see knots in the wood in the photo) they'll be under the bigger roof lid I've got on the other one at the moment, so no rain can get in.
He was "cooking" during the day in the hot months last year. Fortunately the thick canopy of the azaleas over the house gives him some protection.