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Items now separated, adjusting to their new homes after repotting.

Four days later I need to separate them. (Probably should have done it four days ago instead of feeling self-satisfyingly smug and taken pictures of them!!) How quickly these things grow in a hot greenhouse in sunny mid-June.

Thunder

Sunny

Since we knew lockdown would keep us here all summer I decided to convert a corner where we had a huge old honey locust tree (Gleditsia) removed last year into a growing area for summer vegetables. As the overhaul of the garden was to be done without access to garden centres and DIY stores the plan ...

Sunshine

Sunnyspells

Came back with my wife to do our usual running around after our sons.....and we still are!!! But the lockdown has meant we have been living in the garden with a Canary Island climate for nearly three months now Not complaining.

Exotic surprise no.2 to follow..........

A bit of story to this. Last summer I bought a cheap fully-coloured bougainvillea to use as bedding. I decided to put the whole thing in the ground, pot and all, so I could lift it complete and store it in the greenhouse before winter. It put on a good show before being smothered by some wild nicoti...