Gorse

Another day in the garden; this time clearing a gorse that's outside the dining room window. We cut it down a while ago (September '09, I think), but never finished the job. We have, now, though it took an effort to get the three sets of roots out. While I struggled with those, Liz has started ploughing through the neighbouring cotoneaster, and we've made good progress.

Before/during clearing the gorse and cotoneaster (© Ian 2012)

Outside the workshop door, there are a couple of tiny beds (mostly gravel, it has to be said), which have some thorny horrors in them. Unattractive, and irritating. We have, therefore, removed them. I'm not actually certain what they were, and don't really mind. I'm going, at some stage, to build the walls of the beds up a bit, so there's more depth, and then we can plant some blackberry cultivars we ordered. For now, they're in pots in the space.

In the newly found space, we've planted some oriental lilies and three hemerocallis ('Calico Jack', 'Destined to See', and 'Tigger').