Garden Tour Mid May 2021

A few problems this year with the cold weather early on and a snap frost a few weeks ago that killed off a lot of the young blooms on the wisterias on the pergola on the back of the house and the small one in front of the "bamboo forest" at the bottom of the garden. But they will recover and I expect a better than usual second bloom in late summer.. The bad weather didn't do the lawn at the shady end iof the garden much good either. Mind you, we get a visit from a fox some nights so it might be using that area as a toilet. I've jet washed and re-pointed the patios and path. We've also two new troughs for our hebes. The old ones were falling apart. The new ones were not expensive, bought on eBay, but like a lot wooden equipment for the garden they were constructed using a nail gun. So I reinforced them with a few dozen screws. I had visions of picking one up with the pots in it and the bottom falling out. I've painted them to match the rest of the woodwork in the garden. Everything else has grown on nicely. I gave the little pagoda a tart up, but the tea-house has only had a wash down. It's 34 years old this year and still in perfect condition, never leaked which is comforting as It's home to my two vinyl jukeboxes, The newest white wisteria on the pergola next to the garage, has a lot of blooms which will be out next week. We've a couple of dozen roses, all have buds, most of them in ceramic pots, ten on the new patio which was our former 3000 gall koi pool, so we'll get plenty of colour once the rhodos and azaleas fade. We rescued a young hedgehog which I found collapsed and dehydrated on our front lawn a couple of weeks ago. My wife insisted I buy it a house, you can just see it under the azaleas to the side of the patio, it's up against the fence, (Edit 23/10/21 At first it It lived under the tea-house during the day as nothing bigger than a hedgehog can get under it now since I made it "fox proof" four years ago when a fox raised a litter of six cubs under it. But it soon moved into its house. It came every night for its dinner in a feeding station below the steps from the French windows to the patio, but it's now hibernating. We have a trail camera that picks up anyrthing that gets into our garden) Our small front garden. Several examples of one variety of acer, two others, two viburnums, two rhododendrons and a maple tree, which I prune each year to keep its shape. https://i.ibb.co/Sr3jprJ/P1050136.jpg

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