OUTDOORS 20

My fence-border was coming along well as April entered the center of the month. This is the spot closest to the kitchen window, beyond the waste patch and prickly tree with yellow berries. As well as the now established box privet hedge-lump, you can spot a camellia transplant, geranium or two, wild strawberries, and a few weeds.

Moving slightly further along, you will note more wild strawberries along with the two white strawberry plants my son gave me from the nursery he worked at as a volunteer until it closed down. A cyclamen, mini daffodil, snowdrop and couple of alliums fill the space.

Next up, a cutting of box privet ends the strawberry area. Along with the Lychnis plant Liz gave me and her purple plant donation, you can see what was mint. Going along further, Liz's primrose and lemon balm are in view, along with the former neighbors' yellow thing - either a winter jasmine or a forsythia. Down in the bottom right corner you might spot a violet.

Going towards the back of the yard a step or two more, you can see the remains of one of 3 red and white tulips, along with a yew cutting, another rose, another camellia, a few random bulbs and a yellowish shrub, which you can see better in the next picture. There are also some olde fashioned roses, the start of the bluebells, and a couple of other plants I have transferred from other spots in the yards.

This photo depicts the view from bird bath to poly tunnel - and includes the about to re-spurt fern, pond shrub, main bluebells, small holly sapling, moved fuchsia and seedum, white bluebells, and coltsfoot. You might also spot the removed palm tree dying in happiness to provide bugs with a home along the fence beyond.

My final picture for today's post is a closer view of the patch beyond the bird bath. You can see where the path has been trodden into submission and where the spotty leaved pinky-purple flowered plants have been established and more of the coltsfoot - which is the thicker white clusters to the dandelions nearby.