Wisteria growing crazy!

Planted only 4 weeks ago and has gone from knobby stick to this:

 It really loves that south facing sun trap of a wall. Maybe it will flower this year?

Front garden trimmed

I cheated and Denise paid for a local Gardener to help me for 2 hours on the front garden:

Looks much better now.

Slowly coming to life

With the slight increase in temperature the trees are slowly waking up:

Weeding the rockery

Spent a good few hours on the smaller rockery. It was completely overgrown. Planted a couple of shrubs and put some compost down.

Magnolia tree has flowered!

After being planted only 3 weeks ago the Magnolia tree flowered this morning!

New plants and a more relaxing day

Had a more relaxing day today - made the most of the sun and we went to RHS Wisley Garden's to get some inspiration.

Bought these two climbers to give the tiny honeysuckle some company, really makes the most of this wall.

This is one of the trees in the garden just blossemed this week, no idea what it is though.

New bird bath.

Bargin buy trellis by the front door - will probably put a wisteria here as the clematis I bought are even smaller than the honeysuckle!

Rockery gone wild!

Seems the lawn feed is working, looking much healther now.

Another view of the new climbers by the shed.

Another weekend of weeding

Another weekend, another 2 days of work on the garden.

This time is was to tackle the Ivy behind the main lawn and tidy up and rip out dead branches and plants as well as creating a new lawn edging. Idea is to plant a number of small shrubs and bedding plants along the edge. Before it was quite overgrown, hopefully now it looks a little better.

The planters all needed sorting out, planted some new herbs, cleaned the pots and threw away all the ones broken by frost:

Cleaned up the potting area, note the two hanging baskets ready for Denise to do:

Chopped the 50 year old vine right back, hopefully we'll get some decent grapes this year. Although not sure how much longer the greenhouse will last, the panes of glass keep falling out and the door is nearly hanging off:

Against the shed I put up two pieces of trellis and planted the two honeysuckle plants I ordered. Unfortunately they weren't as large as I'd hoped... Don't think they will make much of an impact before 16th June!

Some more lawn edging done. Note the patchy lawn, may have to get experts in - keep throwing on evergreen 4 in 1 but it doesn't seem to make much difference.