Make no mistake, opening your garden is hard work. Just weeding and planting is hard enough but then there are a multitude of other jobs that need to be done. We have 250 scones in the freezer waiting to become cream teas, there is an art exhibition to be put up, lunches to be prepared, advertising to be done, garden chairs and tables to be put up etc etc etc. Then just when you think you have got there a storm called Hector tries to rearrange the garden!
Anyway just a couple of hours to go before the first visitors start to arrive so I am posting some of views in the garden (in case you cannot get here!). I will do a more detailed walk around when I have a spare minute.
We do enlist friends to help and Chris pointed out that the tree looks like a chicken!
And now for the rest of the garden
| 2018 Gardening Hours | ||
| Week beginning June 9th | Total 2018 to-date | Average per week |
| 75 | 452 | 20 |
Should be able to have a day off now!
Fortunately I had put the pump on a concrete block so that the pump had not totally drained the pond and the fish were safe.
Exactly where all this water went I have no idea but I will not need to water this part of the garden for some time. To give you an idea of the amount of water I have been refilling it with a garden hose turned full on. I estimate it will take up to sixteen hours to replenish the water.
So just one more thing to sort out for our open day!
Glebe House Garden 