Garden Make Over

The Water Tower garden is difficult to manage as a good half of it is on a steep slope.   It makes for a great spectacle but just now it is almost impossible for me to get to.

This weekend it has had a serious dose of t.l.c. form daughter Lorna + Alan.   Through sheer hard work and love of gardening they have transformed it.

Eventually the slopes will be covered with carefully chosen shrubs but until they mature ground cover plants are really necessary.   Wild strawberry seems to like it here and besides giving us a spectacular array of spring flowers it provides deliciously sweet pick-and-eat fruits later on.

click to enlarge into big strawberries

and then there's good old London Pride:

and ajuga:

We have come a long long way since Michelle from Briar Plants designed and planted it up in May 2012:

and what a difference four years make:

Hero gardener Lorna

....... displaying the scalps of weeds

The view from the road - click to enlarge

Lorna's big beast of a car.   The registration plate hints at who has the money in this family

And Pat's car, washed by grandsons Ben and James.   Note the contrast in reg. plates.   Mine is an '03 Honda Jazz . . .  Where did I go wrong?

Finally, an arty picture of one of three pop-pom bay trees we have around the place.