HIGHER MORWELL GARDEN DIARY
5th June 2017
A long gap in the diary and a lot in the garden has
changed. A large marquee for our wedding
celebrations has been and gone and the quadrangle
has been tidied up. This showed up another major
water leak in the same place as the first one, and
has now also been repaired. Many bedding plants
have been put in pots around the house and
quadrangle to try and foil the rabbits, but they’ve
attacked the smoke bush yet again.
The Douglas Fir tree
has been shedding its
seed cones for some
weeks, we’ve
collected them as they
don’t disintegrate
when mowed.
Although a slow
process we managed
to put them all
through the shredder
and half filled the trug
with excellent mulch
which has been put
under the yew hedge.
The felled cypress stump was
pulled out by a mechanical
digger in April. I’ve started to
cut it up with the chainsaw
but it isn’t so easy!
The roots particularly have
been difficult, they tend to
trap stones between them
which blunt the chainsaw very
quickly.
There is now a large pile of
drying logs in the garage from
this tree, and it promises to
be much better fuel than the
awful sticky leylandii.
In an effort to keep track of
what we are planting I have
pinched the layout for
labels from the RHS garden
at Rosemoor. It includes the
latin name and also the
common name.
This is a new bush planted
in the proposed avenue of
trees and bushes which will
lead from the big beech
tree to the pond. The
leaves have a minty
fragrance when rubbed and
it should bear white flowers
in July.
So far it has avoided the
attention of the rabbits.
The reproduction GWR platform seat has finally made it into the
garden, having being kept under a tarpaulin to protect it from the
weather since I put it together. It is intended to be placed beside
the pond eventually but just here it gives us a good view towards
the rhododendrons and cornus kousa bed. The oak planks are
already showing signs of weathering.