Around the garden

Neither are pretty, but certainly fascinating.

Our back garden. The azalea's are flowering

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The bluebells just behind our garden.

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Mint is just the same. I tend to grow it in a biscuit tin.

The digging out and building the pond was hard work. Definitely!

The blue bells are wild, so were here before we moved in. Al the rest is just sticking things in the ground, and praying to Capability Brown. 

great ground cover, Cherry.

In the garden this morning I noticed another bee inspecting our compost bin (where the bees nested last year), but no signs of activity yet. I may not get any as on talking to my neighbour she mentioned that bees were in one of her bird nesting boxes on the opposite side of her garden. We shall see but I hope I get some.

On a slightly lesser note, while I was out in the garden yesterday I noticed that mice, not content with creeping into the garden shed, had gnawed away at bottom of the shed door to produce a semi-circular hole that would not discrace Jerry with similar skirting board holes in the old Tom and Jerry cartoons. It would have been an amusing photo but I only thought now it is patched

My dad put down a lawn in his garden yesterday and it looks good!

Oh: someone poured water down a nearby beehive yesterday. My neighbour pointed it out. I don't know why someone would do something like that. It's utterly wrong.

I checked my jalapeños today and they are doing amazing. I can't believe how many I have.

I will never have this where I am

That's good. I have four pepper plants. They are somewhat behind yours though, only being a couple of inches tall at the moment. A week or two's sun should bring them on though. My tomatoes are doing better. They are beginning to flower well now.

Just goldfish and one other type I can never remember lol

Is it shubunkins? 

Our little redbud branch is in the ground. It actually had more roots visible than the previous one they sent.. they are very tiny, but all over the place! We thought the other was going to be a dud for the lack of roots, and it was... it did grow some roots and grew tiny leaves at the base, but that's it... I don't want to wait years for a tree in the front yard to establish like that, though, so that's why we asked them to send us a new one.

We relocated both of our mostly dead redbuds to the backyard to see if they will grow one day.... but birds also like to land on our empty, dead trees, so it's also for them to enjoy lol we don't mind if they are an "eye sore" because they are in semi-wooded areas, and they aren't very big. I know one of our neighbors would hate it xD

I looked yesterday and noticed that a couple of my tomato plants have little tiny tomatos on them