Garden and lunch and shopping

 This morning I thought I would concentrate on the end of the bungalow where Tina’s office is and the side any visitors see first. I didn’t take a before shot but there was a large cracked plastic planter full of a scraggly mount of mint and compost falling out onto the path. There was another plastic pot that had one bulb and plenty of weeds. We had bought a couple of small hanging baskets a few days ago and they were already up. It took a while extracting the compost from the broken pot as it was full of roots. The got the biggest ones out and had the rest of the compost in a couple of containers and will sift through it to remove roots so that it can be reused. I put the hellebore in a pot, moved a low one that Tina had bought back from a church sale and managed to move the cast iron Victorian planter on the sack trolley. Added some garden ornaments that I brought with us and it looks a lot better now.

I moved the cordyline onto a slab in the middle of the lawn, so taken from the untouched part of the garden it looks like it is taking shape!

I felt like gong out and Tina was happy to take us. We had lunch at the garden centre and of course got a few more plants, some of those will go in the Victorian planter tomorrow, hopefully.

My parcel arrived just before we went out, I had ordered some wide fit walking shoes. I wore them when we were out and they feel fine and are wide enough. I have strayed them with protector now.

I have been working on the quiz sheet I got yesterday, think I have ten more to work out now. Not doing a lot this evening, maybe a bit of the patchwork.

Tomorrow I hope to get the plants into the planter and in the afternoon I am going to a pencil shading workshop!