Top of the Hill

Well we finally made it! The mound is finished - thank goodness. As you will remember, I spent a few days moving earth and stones from our courtyard to create the mound. Unfortunately, the garden designer decided that she didn't like what was evolving, and so, having lost her cigarette packet which had the sketches, 'we' had to start removing a large number of the stones. Having built it up, we now had to knock it down. But it's great excercise!!!!

What didn't help was that we had a shower in the early hours and so everything was sticky and claggy. However, job accomplished. We now have an area which rises against the flow of the ground and which then finishes in a row of exposed stones, from which will come the dry river of stones.

We did so well, ahead of schedule , that Sue was out this afternoon, planting bulbs in the Birch Copse. That's the official name for the mound. We're off tomorrow to search for 3 Silver Birch trees to plant and then she can sow it with wildflower seeds. And then, I can get on with jobs in the house; the builders are now on holiday till the 10th January.