Wow, that mimosa looks fantastic. I am definitely warming to the idea of some lawn features or potted trees, shrubs.
I shouldn’t get too far ahead of myself though. I have a long list of promised DIY projects to sort out in the house before I get involved with something else outside! Maybe next year.
Tell me about it.
I thought my days of doing DIY stuff in our house were over, as for a long time now we've, as my wife says, "got a man in."
We had (another) new kitchen fourteen years ago. She wanted spotlights in the ceiling. To achieve this I fitted a false ceiling 4" below the original one and fitted eight of 'em, We had a firm fit the kitchen, but I did the tiling, electrics, did the "boxing in" over the units, decorating and laid the laminate floor.
Now she's decided she'd like another cupboard next to this one on the little breakfast bar which is usually just used to put "stuff" on.
The firm that made the cabinets have gone bust and I can't find one to make a new one in that particular "unfashionable" finish. But I've found a firm who can make an unglazed door in the right colour and the same profile.
I've just got to hope the local woodyard has the right colour laminated chipboard for me to make the caracass, which shouldn't be a problem.
Three years ago when we had a new combi boiler fitted we went from this.
To this, which presented me with a big problem (she thought she might get another new kitchen)
But we've now got this. With a new door and a bit of "fettling" you wouldn't think anything had changed. I "threw in" a new fridge/freezer as part of the deal when I said I could fix it myself.
I needed a fixing for the new door so I made this little unit to store all her appliance instruction books, "which you can never find when you need them."
Of course, I had to change all the wallpaper too.
There's a lot of things amateurs can do if you set your mind to it.
I have successfully transferred a disectum Acer back into a pot but I can't say it's doing fantasticly well. It was struggling in the first place which is why me moved it. You could try an Air pot, they don't look pretty but you can get big sizes, or even make one up to the size you want.
I have successfully transferred a disectum Acer back into a pot but I can't say it's doing fantasticly well. It was struggling in the first place which is why me moved it. You could try an Air pot, they don't look pretty but you can get big sizes, or even make one up to the size you want.
Giood advice.
We had the same problem with an acer palmatum Taylor I bought two years ago. I transferred it after a year to a bigger pot, but it didn't survive last winter.
Older ones can stand a bit of "messing about."
In August of this year I closed our little frog pond, as the roots of the acer next to it for over thirty years, were lifting the concrete collar and coping stones.
I found that the roots of the acer had worked their way between the liner and the old liner I'd covered with new one, as the first was leaking about fifteen years ago. There may have been more roots to the right but this one looked pretty big.
So a case of carefully removing both liners, a lot of the collar and the stones and refilling with a boat load of ericaceous compost and top soil. Probably not the best time of the year to do it, but the acer didn't suffer for it. It's still fine.
We have a new small acer palmatum Taylor, I've put in a 16" pot in which it can stay for years, but I've moved it onto my shed's bench under a window for the winter, just in case.
I successfully transplanted a sango-kaku into a pot in mid summer. - it went into the shade and was kept moist. Winter/early spring would be a better time but we were about to put the house on the market so didn't have a choice if it was hoping to move with us. That was on sandy soil so easier to get roots out whole but Acer palmatums do have compact root balls so you should have success getting a good proportion out. Good luck, definitely worth trying to save if you're not prepared to prune the surrounding plants to make the space.
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