The temperature today reached 13degrees, rather warm for this time of year. I noticed 2 butterflies on the Daphne bholua 'Jacqueline Postill', it smelt wonderful too, luckily I was working in the bed just below and spent all afternoon with its lovely smell.
The herbaceous borders are looking a tad untidy now, hopefully I'll be able to spend some time in them in the coming weeks, I've 15 tons of horse manure to spread .
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The grass has already started to green up, this didn't happen until March last year, so we're about 4 weeks ahead at the momment, but I'm sure we will be in for some snow before April, its usually about March around here.
The 3rd pond at last has been dug, carpeted, lined and filled. I've had to do a few adjustments on the waterfall as it seemed to be leaking, but several expanding foam cans later I hope to have fixed it. We tried the pump the other week, its a 10,000 gallon fully submersible sump pump and it works brilliantly, we could even hear the flow of the waterfall above the sound of the river in flood !
Progress has been slow with the new raised circle area, but we are now hopefull to get it finished. M'spouse has managed to cut & sink logs for nearly half of the exposed circle, I've filled most of it with soil from the pond, beds etc and now need to cut away the top half of the circle and level it all off, at the same time remove the turf from the top to lay on the bottom and then cut some more turf from the surrounding area's that are now being turned into beds.
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