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Overwintering your obelisk
oooft
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I was concerned about the cold getting to it so wrapped it in a blanket of fairy lights. The bauble grafts seem to have taken hold and i'm hopeful they'll survive until early January.
I made this yesterday for under £20. I'm delighted with it so thought i would share as i reckon there must be loads of us with baldy looking obelisks hanging around at this time of year
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Great idea oooft!
MU - you can get lights that are battery operated from those 'cheapo' shops. I've just bought a new set as mine got slightly waterlogged last year. They're quite good though - and not too dear. I put mine along the back fence
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have an outdoor supply but it kept tripping last night, think it may be damp. Gonna get the hairdryer out today and see if that solves it. These lights come on a fine wire so i plugged them in indoors and was able to shut the door with the wire in place. You'd be able to put them out a window and close it. These lights were from poundstretcher and cost 15 quid. Baubles cost 4 quid from asda
That looks fab. I absolutely love fairy lights
Good idea and may well have a go ourselves.
Last year we discovered our outside walls have nowhere to attach strings of lights and, being stone covered with render, are not readily drillable so, having only recently moved in, we bought one of those laser dooberries. Bit naff tho so I think we may well adopt this obelisk idea and put one either side of the front door.
Now to check if we have suitable strings of outdoor lights - our old house needed very long strings - and wind and waterproof baubles. I can feel a little retail therapy coming on.
Yay! Get the pictures posted when you're done!
I used to have strings of outdoor ones that I plugged in indoors too, oooft. Think they eventually conked out, as I certainly don't have them now. They were very good.
The battery ones are quite good though. They just need to have the battery 'box' kept in a watertight case. I use a plastic food one, but it fell down last year when it was a bit wild and by the time I got to it, the rain had knackered it.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Looks great
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Awww Riley. That is absolutely amazing. Fabulous! I love it. Summer evenings in your garden must be wonderful
Wow. What an amazing garden. How long you been working it? Its beautiful. Video gets a bit sinister when the teddy bears picnic starts playing as we scan to what I'll always think of as 'the murder pagoda' ?