The corner is cleared.....hurrah!!!!

Today's project is to plant the blue clematis!.  It is going right at the end of the fence which means that the corner will have to be cleared.

I have looked at this corner so many times over the last few years .... it never used to be like this . . . . but when you're ill that's all you can do . . . . look . . .

I waded in and cut back all the mint and other 'stuff', mainly weeds.  I removed the clematis, still in the pot in which it was bought, and disentangled the dratted yellow honeysuckle.  It has self rooted itself in between the house extensions . . . . wonder if I could self root myself . . . in Paris possibly?

Now that I can see wot's wot, I took down a few of the bricks, cleared the back soil and rebuilt the wall, much neater now.  I planted the clematis and spread it over the 'netting', poor thing only had two shoots. . .  it will receive much more love and attention now.
I have back filled the little end wall and round the Euonymus with the soil from a couple of spent tomato pots, they're coming in very useful this year!  The half sack of chicken muck was put under and round the blue pine fir, another plant that has just about survived the lack of attention, all the dead has been trimmed away and it looks much happier.

BTW: while I'm in the back garden, PJ is out in the front garden trying to remove the couch grass.  DDC, PJ and I tackled all this some years back but the central corner was left.
I have tried to get someone to do it  . . . . but to no avail even if I offer to pay.  It's not a lot of area but very hard work which I know I cannot do so PJ made a start. 

He had cleared about a yard square then I received the phone call. . . he was not quite prone but close, his left leg had given way and he was sat on the ground. 
We managed to get him upright, (that's the time one could do with a neighbour) and through the house to sit in the back garden.  Cup of coffee and a book called for methinks!  lol
We sat watching the chickens, talking things over as one does . . . coffee and cake definitely helps!

I potted up some Aeoniums that I have, I overwinter them inside normally but some how the poor little green one had stayed outside. 
I found the pot with two rosettes and a load of weeds when I cleared the corner.  I fetched my black ones outside and potted them both up, they will sit on my theatre along with their 'friends' through the summer. 

Something to make me smile first thing in a morning!!


The really small pot contains some Ferns, minute ones which were growing in a wall when we were on holiday. . . . I don't know what it is called but it is tiny, black/green and really pretty.  I am pleased that it survived the winter, I was worried.

Tomorrow I hope to continue along the blue garden towards the pond.  Did you notice the blue fairies and the blue 'egg'?  They are just a few of the blue ornaments that we have acquired over the years. . . .