Fencing

Ooh this is spooky. My chores are done. I’ve even cleaned my potting shed.  And sowed three trays of eragrostis grasses.  I had a look at my long list of summer tasks and seem to have ticked most things off the list.

Well, there is always more strimming and mowing to do.

I need to do the orchard tomorrow.

But this afternoon after lots and lots of raking of huge piles of dead grass, I finished my shade garden fence.

Tis a work in progress. But I’m pleased. At first I made it quite a straight fence. But it just doesn’t work in this rural garden.  So I added some wire, an extra chestnut stick to each section and made them a bit more wonky.

Are the sticks too high? I might trim them all down a bit. But for now I’ll just stalk past a hundred times to and from my way to the potting shed and try and come up with ideas.

It’s funny how this is my most worked and least successful part of the entire garden.

The tricky bit is that it’s deep shade under a chestnut tree at one end closest to the potting shed. And then blazing sunshine for the rest.  So I can’t do a mass planting of lavenders which I’d like to do. Well, I guess I could but the lavenders int the shade would just get too too leggy and sulk.

I’ll take advice from Andrew when he comes up in the autumn.