Blossom

Another week has zipped by at Heale, this week I mainly remember blossom. The Cherry trees are so beautiful and they are all emerging right now, whenever I look up to the noise of a plane, I am reminded.

This week we trimmed the Lavender hedging which looks much neater. I had a go with the Hedge Trimmer, it takes a while to get into the swing but it is very creative really, kind of sculpting the plant with the blade. Noisy too but the ear defenders put you in your own world. The hedge will always be Vera to me now I know which type she is so I shall talk to her on the way past.

We also needed to do some work in the Japanese Garden, a big walnut tree came down over winter and lots of debris and mess from the floods. I pruned some Wisteria and tidied and raked. The sound of the water is lovely over in that part of the garden, it feels very different to the rest. The Petasites I saw in my first week have grown a lot and the Magnolias are starting to emerge. A huge one, Apollo, is really pretty.

 I got to meet and feed the Pigs and Sheep too this week, they live over a little bridge across the river, very three Billy Goats Gruff. The Lambs are on their way....

This week I also helped to get the canes ready to support the Sweet peas in the kitchen garden, we used a garden line and made sure the canes were a distance from the Buxus hedging. That many Sweet peas will smell amazing when fully going.

I weeded some borders in the kitchen garden with a hand fork, lots of Shepherd's Purse really going for it. A lot of Bees, as the main flowering plant at the moment is Pulmonaria, great plant.

The kitchen garden is getting ready now as the new Gardener, another Michael, started this week and he will be doing a lot of work in that area. Really great time to see Heale coming to life.