Day 28 of the 100 day project
I am a day late recording this but I did keep to the project! Older son and his family have moved into a new house, a brand new house with a garden with no turf which has been for a few weeks a sea of mud. Ian laid turf for them over this last week and yesterday my lovely daughter in law and I went shopping for plants for the garden as a housewarming present for them. It was very good fun. Lindsay has a great eye for colour and a strong sense of style. She knows how she wants the garden to look and my job is to provide enough gardening experience to help to identify the plants which will bring it all together. We bought camellia and hydrangea, climbing roses and clematis. There is a real interest in starting with such a completely blank canvas. I have only have had gardens which someone else has started or, up here, a garden to make out of a field which is a task on a different scale to a domestic garden so the challenges here are quite ot...