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 Happy New Garden
It鈥檚 a new year and our last visit to
Lee and Noel was in early December 2002. Not
very long ago,only a page on a different calendar,
but when you hear how the garden has come
on and the work accomplished, it could well
be a full year rather than a new one.
The electricity supply to allow the garden
to be lit has been installed professionally
by a qualified electrician using armoured
cable well buried with electrical warning
tape laid over the wire. The control point
is inside the house protected by a contact
breaker. The other dwarf, dry stone wall has
been completed using another 3-4 tons of wheelbarrowed
stone. Excavated soil from the centre patio
and path areas has been used to raise the
beds to wall level. Green, lattice timber,
fencing panels now screen the existing boundary
fence making a usable backdrop
for the sitting area.
Lee wants to plant a summer jasmine, Jasminum
officinale, to scramble through the wooden
framework. With its highly perfumed, white
flowers in summer and early autumn it will
be a
winner for evening barbecues. All this work
achieved over the Christmas holidays deserves
a reward so they bought each other
plants.
Lee spent a fortune on a superb Yucca gloriosa.
The 鈥淪panish dagger鈥 loves well
drained soil in a sunny site. The tips of
the sword-like evergreen leaves are deadly
sharp. By next year it will produce tall spikes
laden with bell shaped, pinkish-white flowers.
Noel bought one of my favourite plants, Choisya
ternata, the Mexican orange blossom, with
its aromatic, evergreen foliage and clusters
of pure white scented flowers in early summer
and again in autumn. He then went all romantic
with a Leucothoe 鈥楻ed Lips鈥 with
good, deep red foliage and low growing.
Lee鈥檚 earlier enthusiasm for grasses
seems to have waned. There is a rumour that
she takes a big, thick, gardening book to
bed every night and dreams of all sorts of
plants. So much so that we are all going to
a garden centre soon to decide on plants.
You will be able to hear the reasoning behind
the final choice and the efforts made to control
Lee!
Far be it for me to complain, but when I mentioned
roses I was told they were for old people!
The producer didn鈥檛 help matters. She
knew exactly what Lee meant and personally
didn鈥檛 think roses were 鈥淔UNKY鈥!
I get the feeling Lee will make the decisions,
Noel will write the cheque, Cherrie will give
me a hand to carry the purchases and our producer
will be looking for 鈥渉ip and happy plants.
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