We shifted lots of turf and made patchwork patterns with it and amazingly it looked quite good.
Then the posts appeared ...
.. and more wood ...
... and then we had a trellis.
This was a wonderful opportunity for me to indulge in my love of climbers and I managed to find two very healthy looking natives, a rata and a tecomanthe speciosa which requires a 'strong support' and is likely to overrun everything. And I couldn't resist a very large jasmine on special.
And then the snow returned! If last month's storm had been exceptional, this one was even more so, with so much more snow
And even a skating rink for the daffodils that were just appearing.
But we survived that and had a lovely visit from Alice who was put to work planting the camellia hedge ...
... and a new willow hedge, from the left over bits and pieces from the willow hut. This should give us some shelter to the south.
And we also cleared another patch behind the water tank for the tamarillo and citrus I had just bought.
Meanwhile, the path along the bank to the willow house was growing
- in fact it was growing so much that it threatened to become the main feature of the bank! Dave never does things by halves.
This meant that the soil mountain was disappearing ...
And talking of disappearing. The original sand quarry when we arrived has now gone and they are working on a new slope. Plenty of potential here although the part of the slope with natives on is protected, we're told.
We also heard that the digger driver was in his seventies and had rolled his digger a couple of times. Wouldn't be a good time to repeat this!
By the end of the month, it felt like spring was really here with a fine selection of flowers.
And it really did seem like the breezeway deck was getting closer to the top of the 'To Do' list as Dave re-organised the wood in the woodshed so that the pile in the breezeway could be resited. Yay, at last!!
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