Fencing-Woo Hoo!

What a great day!

We started at 8:30am by taking all the old fencing out.

We found lots of old rubbish between the fencing and the wall, including some 80's cassette tapes and a body warmer-fortunately no body! and a selection of drinks cans so everything was bagged up for recycling. Good job this doesn't work in smellivision!

 and a missing chess piece!

We loaded all the old fencing, branches and rubbish in the trailer (Thanks Dave!) and had four trips to the tip.

Then we started to install the new fencing which went in without too many problems.

We had time for a short coffee and cake break

Then back to work!

Dave has a quick look at the view!

The garden starts to look different with the new fencing in place.

A few finishing touches

Then we are all done!

The garden looks fantastic, hopefully the few daffodil casualties will have chance to recover before the open day next week.

Thanks to everyone who helped from Rotaract, Wollaton Park and Sherwood Sunrisers Rotary Clubs!

Bit Wet!

Well could it have rained anymore! We jet washed the patio and walls, couldn't really see what we were doing as the rain was so bad. We also cut back a lot of dead branches so that lots more light can come in to the garden. All ready for the new fencing to arrive and be installed.
No pictures today as everything looked horrible in the wet and mud, including us!

Brrrr!

A cold but sunny day, we cleared up the leaves again! and piled them up ready for the arrival or the leaf composter that Bethan is constructing.

The bulbs are starting to come and the new gnome has arrived!

More bulbs!

Thanks to Nottingham in Bloom who donated 555 tulip bulbs we were digging again!

TEF have also now installed a wendy house for the children which looks lovely.

If it goes to plan then we should have purple, red/orange tulips and a variety of daffodils.

Planting bulbs

A lovely sunny day for gardening!

Leaves everywhere as usual so we started out by tidying up.

In preparation for the garden open day next year we planted 350 bulbs, there is now a right selection of slides, one for all sizes!

Bethan took the leaves away for composting so everything is nice and tidy.

Ooh look at those lovely boots fran! Nice look going off from Francois!

Some of the pansies are still growing

New slide

Today we had a new slide to add to the garden very kindly donated by Noel and Pam from Sherwood Sunrisers Rotary club.

The sunshine was out so we continued to sweep and tidy. Next time we will be putting in the bulbs ready for the spring time. The birds looked happy as we left to see their food had been filled up!

The other garden!

We worked on the other garden out the back today, it had about 5mm off moss growing all over the paving so we jet washed and weeded and are quite impressed with our efforts!

First thing this morning...

...2:30pm!

Time for a shower as I smell like a pond!