Did a lot today.
The blossom on this pergola has all gone.
It was all stuck to the patio by the rain a couple of days ago, so it needed a stiff brushing before I could pick it up with my garden vac.
This is a mixture of blue and white, but the blue is nearly finished,
I've moved the rose pots out more towards the centre of the patio, so I can get around them with my vac. There will be a lot of blossom coming down over the following weeks.
I did "edges" today. the lawn grass tries to creep over the brick borders. So every coupler of years I use a knife to cut a half inch gap between the lawn and the bricks.
The bits I remove have roots, so I can use this grass for any patches to unrepaired "squirrel pitch marks" in the lawn.
These are three rhodos, I bought in small pots from Aldi three years ago, they were very cheap. The filled a hole where an azalea had died.
I'll be dead-heading rhodos next week. How time flies!
I had to open the ventilation in the tea-house today, it's getting that warm in there.
My two jukeboxes don't like it when it's cold or hot.
There's two vent panels, in the bottom of the back wall, that I cover during the cold months.
The "box lid" top of the building gets one end lifted up and the vent put in.
It's easier to see from inside.
It's just two halves of a recycled dishwasher cutlery basket and a bit of three by two.
After all, it's just a glorified shed.
I leave a door open all day in the hot weather to stop it getting warm in there.
But I couldn't do that when we had the six fox cubs living under it, five years ago? As they'd be in there with their muddy paws. But it came to a point when I needed more ventilation, so I put this fan in and had it on a timer.
That did the job, I was quite pleased with that.
But "the little sods" left home the following week!
She needs to go chase a rabbit.