The rain hammered down this morning and it was cold, far too cold for an early summer day, but Big Fish just put up a shelter and carried on working! Brrrr!     Bridget and I had the unenviable task of stripping the webbing back off the setts about

Phew, what a day. Our plants from Hortus Loci are being delivered on Monday and we knew we had to go down for the final selection….had  we booked a slot? No….we had talked to them about it but hadn’t actually arranged a visit. Even

Our landscapers ‘BigFish’ are so awesome, they are show garden superheroes. I was fretting about the Acer Fremanii blowing over in the wind and suddenly there was Tom with a wheelbarrow full of sandbags to pack around the base and stabilise

Today Bridget stepped up, and in order to save on transport costs she drove a veritable juggernaut up the M40, loaded with shou  sugi  ban fencing, benches, the sculpture,eski and the Palmstead plants. She even negotiated reversing  into the nursery.

Blogging with the eyepad, I mean ipad…this technology may get the better of me yet! Day 1 done…..and I haven’t turned to  stone and the sky did not fall on my head……obviously I arrived waaaay tooooo early and there were