Category: House

Garden

It is currently warm and dry. The grass is growing more slowly; which is good.

We are working on the wild flower development with some small success. More seeding done after grass removal with the expectation that we will achieve some flowering success.

There are some flowers out that the insects like.

The container has landed

The shipping container with the items we sent back from NZ arrived in Rotterdam about two weeks ago and turned up at the house yesterday in a big lorry. Not so much stuff, bit still, along with beds and memory boxes, the kitchen table which has been back and forth over the last 20 plus years in back in place.

Shaz and her serre

Shaz’s dream has been constructed. A high quality item made in Finistère which is more robust than the ones in the garden centre type places. After reading the insructions and watch the videos lots of times, she put it up with great success.

Moving on

As previously noted the family home has been sold. The settlement is due soon.

The last day is done for us, spent cleaning by someone and packing the car and stuff by someone else.

So just about 20 years to the day.

The view still looks good.

Sold

Well, time to move on.

It was sold by auction- though there was only one bidder. So in reality negotiation done by the auctioneer.

The current market is certainly cooler than it has been. The local effects of the public sector job cuts seem apparent.

To the next phase.

The wet zone

Back to the garden.

As the land gets so wet in the autumn and winter such that, the pond area overflows with water and the area adjacent becomes the supplementary pond, we decided to put in plants that should tolerate the water well and fight the overwhelming grass. So to a wet garden zone.

The first stage has been to clear the area of grass: cutting first and digging out the roots next. And so the area looks like:

So the earth is prepared and we await the new plants- about 300euro worth!

Let’s hope it works.