As well as spreading out tons of stone chippings and building flat-packed wardrobes, we have also been doing bits and pieces in various parts of the garden ~ little bites of that elephant 😉
I took a little time out, though, to take a couple of photos of the beautiful hips on two shrubs in this more shady border in the kitchen garden. The photo above is a hypericum...
...and this is, obviously, a rose. I'm pretty sure that it's Rosa Rugosa Alba but I really didn't fancy getting in amongst all those thorny stems to double-check 😯
Our latest garden endeavours have mostly revolved around sorting out the old fruit cage area, as we've decided it needs to be totally overhauled. The plan is to take out the central bed entirely, just leaving the two on either side. We're going to set out a little seating area here in due course.
Along with the weeds (!) in this bed there are a couple of holly shrubs, a couple of ferns, and three (I think) alchemilla mollis. The alchemilla obviously like it here, judging by the growth they have put on! I am going to relocate them to the back garden, so let's hope they will like their new homes as much.
Once the centre bed has been cleared out and dismantled, we are going to use the pieces of wood to make an extra layer on this right-hand bed ~ it will give us somewhere to put at least some of the soil so we don't end up having to make another soil mountain out the back 😄 I shall have to temporarily dig out and pot up the hollies and ferns in this bed whilst we do this so that it's easier to build up the new additional layer and, of course, put in the extra soil to fill it up.
I drastically cut back the blackcurrant bushes in this bed to make it easier to move them. Just look at those weeds!
They've now gone in the back garden to make a short row of blackcurrant "hedge", in the bed with the bay tree. The straggly-looking plant on the right is a piece of escallonia that I decided to leave where it was when I tidied this bed a couple of weeks back. It doesn't look like much even now, I know, but is looking way better than it was before LOL
Only one of the redcurrants have produced much fruit...
...and we got almost two pounds from it!
The two redcurrants which were at the front are now in the bed with the fruit trees.
At the back of the old bed was one redcurrant which I bought as a standard, and a tiny piece that had broken off from one of the other bushes. I've now put the standard redcurrant (which rather surprisingly didn't have as much root as I was expecting to be honest) in a large tub, which I've positioned in the kitchen courtyard between the bay tree and rosemary.
The tiny "bonus" piece was really too small to just plonk down in the garden, I felt, so I've potted it up to let it grow on. Hopefully it'll be large enough to plant somewhere in the garden next year.
Moving into the greenhouse just for a quick look, I'm pleased to report that the tomatoes are now fruiting rather nicely. I noticed earlier in the week that one or two are also ripening up, so fingers crossed that we'll get a decent crop 🤞
And to round off this post, I thought I'd show you the photo of a red admiral butterfly I took last Friday. There wasn't any sunshine so I think it must just have been having a little rest rather than soaking up the rays 😊
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