Monday 23 April 2018

Garden things



The green house is smashed to heck and there are trees growing through the glass.  As I have said before the house was empty for 3-4 years before we bought it.  Nature has been claiming it back.



Bit of common comfrey (Symphytum officinale. I am trying to learn the Latin names...)



We hacked down a wall of brambles and came through a wooden arch, I think it is called a Pailou.  There is a wall of bamboo and the stream here.



More pulling up brambles, made it so I accidentally pulled up loads of grass.  Under that grass was a patio.  This house and garden really are crazy. Its like Jumanji.  



What is this vine?  The leaves are waxy and quite large.  Maybe 8 inches long.



The pear trees have blossom.  The pear and apple trees will need a professional cut at some point.

I am liking the look of some {Plymouth Rocks} and Bluebell Maran right now.  I said we wouldnt have them, but I am coming around to the idea.  They have to be pretty though.  Right?

14 comments:

wisps of words said...

This is so much fun!!!!! Hard work! But fun!

Discovering...

Discovering...

Discovering....

Through lots of hard work! ,-)

How about a blog Label, for "Before" photos? If you don't take 'em now, you won't be able to fully appreciate, what it will look like, "After"!!!!

wisps of words said...

And you have a stream, on your land! Oh how wonnnnnnnderful!

I love the idea of having a stream!!!! Never happen here, but I love the idea.

Elaine said...

You have your work cut out, but oh what an adventure. It looks very exciting and full of potential.
We had a Bluebell Maran in our last flock 'Dusty' she was very beautiful and a great layer. Queen Mab was a Speckledy, very like your Plymouth Rock to look at. I loved our rescue hens, all brown and very difficult to tell apart. They were great hens. I decided to indulge myself with the next lot, so we got six very different-looking hens. They were delightful, but didn't seem to live as long as the rescue ones, for some reason.

Have fun.

Sol said...

Wisp of Words, most houses around here have streams on their land, I live in Cornwall, it rains most days. It rushes down to the sea.

Hey Elaine, it seems like very hard work right now. Very very hard, I have scratches all over me.

We have to think hard about the chickens as we find it hard with the dogs and we can take them with us. lets see what happens.

northsider said...

Wish that Comfrey was mine. Make sure you get proper covered hen feeders. We found that scattering on the ground or in bowls attracted rats. I would let the hens and ducks out in the morning and two big brown rats would jump out. We soon got rid.

Sol said...

We have quite a bit of comfrey all over the garden. Yeah this is the main reason I dont want the chickens but the Mr keeps saying he wants them. it is more that they are a tie and I will be the one doing the work and I worry about the rats seeing as we back on to the stream. the dogs do a great job of killing them, and then I have to clean it up. I dont fancy feeding them and attracting them. We will see, I have enough work already!

local alien said...

Woo, you have been doing a lot of hard work and more to go. Hope you're writing it all down somewhere and taking lots of photos. It is so exciting what you're finding. One day you're going to have an amazing garden area!

northsider said...

Good point about the stream. Rats live next to streams. We were paying eight Euro's a week for hen food. You can get a lot of eggs for that.

Anonymous said...

Oh yes, you NEED hens, absolutely need them! xx

Jules said...

A lot of hard work ahead but it will be oh so worthwhile. X

Sol said...

Hey Linda, we will see what the garden does next. The Mr is taking a whole week off of work to tame one area of the garden. we are putting up a tall picket fence to keep the dogs out of the veggie patch

Dave, the stream is the bane of my life. Dogs are bringing everything in. Dead birds they find, rats and mice they have killed. urgh they are disgusting. I worry about rats coming in.

Toffeeapple we will have to wait and see.

Jules, there is so much work I hardly know where to start! I really dont!

Raybeard said...

I wouldn't do a thing myself until I could hire a gardener/labourer - though not before it warms up again and he needs to take off his shirt!

Btw: Re reading. Some months ago when you were asking for recommendations to programme a list, I put forward Ian McEwan's 'On Chesil Beach'. A few days ago I had reason to become apprehensive when at the flix they played a trailer for this forthcoming film. I had no idea at all it was on the cards. I'm nervous because, it being the most recent book I've read which impressed me enormously, I feel the film might well ruin it. I was also surprised at the date when I had read it, feeling it had been just three or four years ago. It was, in fact, 2009! My, how time flies onward at such swift speed!
Anyway, I simply must re-read the book before the film arrives. It's not long at all - 166 pages in paperback but in large print which I'm sure I read in only two sittings, perhaps just the one. And Ian McEwan, through this novel (as well as 'Enduring Love', Atonement' and 'Amsterdam') is now firmly one of my very favourite contemporary writers.

thrift deluxe said...

How exciting!

I can say that about someone else's garden obviously, but I haven't felt that way about clearing my own little overgrown mess! If you haven't done so already I totally agree with the above comment about taking lots of "before" pictures and posting some of them up. I wish I'd taken more as I have none of the real "before" but even the "during" pictures are a surprise to me now.

Sol said...

Oh Ray they are making a film of it? Will have to look that out and read it!!! Yeah we dont have enough money for a gardener. But we are going to hire a digger machine?!>!

Hey Thrift Deluxe, we have lots of pictures but I dont take very good ones they are normally blurry. There is so much to do and we will get there but it might take a few years. We have put in half a fence! ha ha we need to keep the dogs closer to the house.