As promised to a couple of community members, a look around my brothers and sister-in-law's garden which has seemingly been loving the persistent rain this past week.
A week ago, I left sunny Mallorca on the day of the highest temperature on the island this year. Twenty-nine degrees was predicted, although it was 'only' 21 Celsius when I arrived at the departures at around 9 am. Unsurprisingly, it's not been close to that here, and to add insult to injury, it's rained every day since arrived back 'home'.
I'm British, and so it's acceptable to bitch about the weather. This week though has been particularity rough, imagine this was your bathroom?
Anyway, enough of that, let's go have look around the garden!
The previous owners of the house clearly spent a lot of time in the garden. Before I left for Spain, I did a fair amount of work in the garden, up-rooting some of more difficult to maintain/awkward trees and plants, and these days my brother doesn't have a great deal to do each week to keep on top of things.
Under pretty much all of the stones, there is that black material that stops weeds n stuff growing through. It's a pain in the backside to put down and cover, but once you are done then time spent weeding is vastly reduced.
A few years ago I used this bench as the location to place my old Star Wars figures which we promptly bought by a collector on ebay. I'm annoyed that I don't at least have the photo (and a little annoyed my bro wasn't willing to keep them up in his huge loft!)
Probably my favourite thing in the garden is this little tree which i think is a Crimson Queen Japanese Maple. It's so small, and looks like it should be a lot bigger - Bonsai like.
Proof of raindrops on the last couple of photos, I did manage to sneak out in-between the showers to take these but it's clear to see there has been rain. And guess what? The rain is set to continue for at least another week or so. At least the garden will be happy.
Something different today :)
Cheers
Asher
