The tree is here and in the ground!! It was a race against time to get it in before it got dark! I will water it in the morning, the tree itself was plenty damp and I didn’t want to water it so late. We have a run of mild days and I won’t be able to get it in at the weekend, plus the pot had a big split in it that was exposing the roots so I thought sod it, I’ll just get it in now!! I’ll take a pic tomorrow as it was too dark when I finished!!
In other things that happened today the conifer was removed! It should let so much more sun into the garden now!! Eventually we’ll put a trellis up to obscure the window a little but it’s not a priority right now.
It’s not the easiest to see! The soil level is really uneven but I’ll add some soil to the right of the tree where there’s a bit of a dip. I’m also going to be covering in cardboard and putting a thick layer of composted manure over the top which should help even it out.
My current plan is to plant hydrangea behind the amelanchier, I think the big blooms through the stems will be so pretty!
You're really cracking on there - well done!! Decent sized tree / shrub too - going to look great in a few weeks when the blossom appears.
My first house was a tiny early 19C fisherman's cottage with no garden beyond lots of grass. As I started digging borders I found little treasures including intact Victorian jam pots, glass bottles of various shapes and sizes, earthenware ginger beer bottles, and various metal bits of horse harness. I still have all of these out on display - a little bit of Norfolk history.
We moved here (1990's house on the site of a 1950's bungalow) 10 years ago. When I started digging this garden I found bricks (lots of), breeze block (ditto), long offcuts of electric cable (ditto) plus numerous other bits of rubbish. There was also a concrete lintel right where I wanted to dig down to plant a tree. It's still there - I uncovered about 2' of it before it disappeared under the lawn... Similarly, a large roll of roofing felt is stiil under part of a border, under a tree and out into the lawn.
The Victorians had an excuse for burying their rubbish (no refuse collections) - builders in the 1990's did not😡
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Wow - what a difference removing that conifer makes! I removed 3, plus a horizontal one from my garden when we first moved in. They were not nearly as big as yours but their roots did take quite a bit of excavating to get it. Oh so satisfying when they finally gave way though.
@Topbird that sounds like quite the archaeological dig!!!
@didyw I know! I’ve been cursing it’s existence for the last few months and even I was surprised at the difference it’s made! Can only imagine how much difference removing the huge shrub next to it will make (a job for next winter)
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I’ve ordered 8x 80 litre bags of composted manure which is coming on wednesday!
In other things that happened today the conifer was removed! It should let so much more sun into the garden now!! Eventually we’ll put a trellis up to obscure the window a little but it’s not a priority right now.
I hoped to find a Roman mosaic in 2016, but all I had was a pile of broken bricks double the amount of what @TheGreenMan found :-)
I kept the good bricks, and have some of them now as a bug hotel.
@zugenie Enjoy the new garden and hard work.
I ♥ my garden.
My current plan is to plant hydrangea behind the amelanchier, I think the big blooms through the stems will be so pretty!
My first house was a tiny early 19C fisherman's cottage with no garden beyond lots of grass. As I started digging borders I found little treasures including intact Victorian jam pots, glass bottles of various shapes and sizes, earthenware ginger beer bottles, and various metal bits of horse harness. I still have all of these out on display - a little bit of Norfolk history.
We moved here (1990's house on the site of a 1950's bungalow) 10 years ago. When I started digging this garden I found bricks (lots of), breeze block (ditto), long offcuts of electric cable (ditto) plus numerous other bits of rubbish. There was also a concrete lintel right where I wanted to dig down to plant a tree. It's still there - I uncovered about 2' of it before it disappeared under the lawn... Similarly, a large roll of roofing felt is stiil under part of a border, under a tree and out into the lawn.
The Victorians had an excuse for burying their rubbish (no refuse collections) - builders in the 1990's did not😡
@didyw I know! I’ve been cursing it’s existence for the last few months and even I was surprised at the difference it’s made! Can only imagine how much difference removing the huge shrub next to it will make (a job for next winter)