Fancy a nosey in my garden?

[Suze01]

I've trawled through all my backup discs of my digi photos and created a photobucket album of my garden and how (dramatically) it has changed in four years.

Click [url=http://s55.photobucket.com/albums/g127/Lisleoise/]here[/url] to access it.

[Rob Roy]

And very smart it looks too. (I was going to say 'posh' but thought that far too common for such a property [:D])

[hastobe]

Its beautiful Suze - what have you planted in your 'hot border'?  I like how you have 'recycled' your fosse!

Hastobe

[Suze01]

In the 'hot' border (hot colours) I have Red Hot Pokers, Crocosmia and Phygelius plus the large palm and an oleander.

[Patf]

What a lovely place. I was looking at your soil - it looks nice and

dark and crumbly. Is it fertile? I must say your strawberries look

healthy. Our soil is pure clay but with the addition of straw, sand

compost etc is improving in texture and is very fertile. Pat.

[Suze01]

Generally my soil is awful, like yours quite a lot of clay, which is good in that the clay holds the nutrients, better than having a light sandy soil to start with!  I'm trying to improve it with homemade compost, manure (my daughter rides and I have a free supply luckily) etc. Part of the vegetable garden is imported topsoil from after the building works and it may be that that looks so good!