Landscapes

I've spent most of the weekend doing more garden sorting. The chaos is gradually giving way and the patio area is no longer strewn with junk:

Apart from the two chairs on the right, they're pretty junky. Just around the corner is where I've moved my storage box and put up a ten-quid ASDA greenhouse thing. Actually quite sturdy, but the shelves are shite.

After that a good part of yesterday was putting excess rubble and soil into bags in preparation for taking the tip. I was out stupidly early this morning filling about fifteen rubble sacks and the last bit of garden was finally taking shape, though that shape was basically a huge mound of crap. I took a break to tend to the other bit of garden by laying some stepping stones:

They are square 'stonewood' railway sleepers. The rest of that is starting to come to life as well;

^^An example of the many germinations.

After that it was back to the main event. We ended up wondering about the best thing to do with the remainder of the garden. A few weeks back we were at Webbs at Wychbold (really excellent garden centre, though is far away in the Midlands) and they had a riverside garden area. We were early and this was open before the shop was so we wandered round it and they had this sort of tiered thing made with those log rolls you can get. So we decided to do it.

I must have moved about a tonne of earth today building this thing, and the ground is a complete bastard - still full of stones. Managed to clear most of it and get down to some half-decent clay-earth stuff to dig the required trenches and ta-da:

Still more to do but that's it so far. The earth in those bits needs levelling out and there's another tier to come. We're going to alternate flowers and lawn and then an ericaceous zone right at the base. Hard work, that. It's a bit.. let's say 'rustic' in finish as I'm not a professional but it'll do.

Also, got some Sweetpeas doing well:

And I probably should have heeded Helen's warning about Nasturtiums:

That's in the rockery. I never planted it, the nasturtiums are now in the front garden and THEY HAVEN'T EVEN FLOWERED YET. God knows how that one got that but I'm going to leave it be, for showing pluck.