No, not next-door's cat obviously! He likes to sun himself in our garden and doesn't seem at all bothered by the weedy, overgrown borders ~ he just plonks himself down regardless 😄
This, my lovelies, is the actual overgrown mess to which I was referring 😳 I was talking about having to get it sorted out early last year but we just didn't get round to tackling it. Somewhere in there, believe it or not, is a little wildlife pond!
Having to have the wall rebuilt gave us the proverbial kick up the backside that we needed, so once George had finished we made a start.
Because we want to build a raised bed along this wooden retaining wall, the only sensible option was to raze the whole area to the ground 😖
It's been pretty hard work, as you can no doubt imagine by looking at these photos!
There was originally just ONE rosa rugosa planted in this side area, but omg the bloody thing spread all over the place 😮
Eventually, though, we found the wildlife pond ~ hurrah!
We had edged the area with pieces of wood from the two sycamore trees we had to have removed when we first moved here, but I didn't realise just how much of the stuff we had made use of 😄 It was quite the pile, as you can see, but I'm happy to report that I advertised it on our local Facebook market page as "free to take away" and it was snapped up in double-quick time ~ one less thing to have to worry about getting rid of!
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