The pond is finally officially completed! All the gravel spread around, rockery re-built, with a lot more planting space on a flattish top, rather than north facing slopes. Can’t plant the actual wet banks yet, too cold and they need to settle. But it’s already inhabited – found half a dozen frogs while tidying away the piles of old liner. Also found a whole big family under a stack of folded up landscape fabric by the fence yesterday.
White amaryllis is flowering (one spike, three buds. only two flowers, because of certain clumsy people). The others are not showing much sign. A blotchy aloe is also flowering, and most exciting of all – Harry’s Venus fly-trap! Still in bud, so don’t know what the flowers actually look like yet.
The last few beetroots have been made into the last borsch of last year. They were in pretty good nick, considering they had sat under a foot of snow for a week.
And the chickens are coming…