...ball to juggle. The area of garden behind the "new" kitchen (when it's finished), there was a raised area laid to gravel, leading up to another smaller area of paving, and then the hedge and walnut tree. It's hidden beside the summer house, a little suntrap.
On Friday I decided to start scraping the gravel away, moving it to the side paths(waste not), cleaning the paving...renewed the little stone wall finding two curled lizards under there and then sat and watched the wildlife come and go. Big bustling bumble bees finding a hidy hole in the stump of an old tree, birds of all varieties collecting bugs from the newly tumbled stones, two blue tits testing my winter raised house for them, the pair of robins back and forth to their nest and a climax of coming eye to eye with a little brown mouse...I was on my hands and knees at the time pulling up the old weed inhibitor. The sun rose on Saturday and we dragged some paving into place to make two paths, like the rays of the sun...next I started the digging, finding little pieces of pottery of varying colours. Finding those, you wonder whose lives they touched, how they slipped to be broken and when they were strewn on the garden and buried...
Now I have the start of a herb garden...chives, thyme are already planted. Sorrel, tarragon, flat parsley, sage, fennel, and chamomile are waiting to find a home, with mint and lemon balm staying in large pots. A few sweet peas will trail up a wigwam this year, nasturtiums will tumble over the wall and a sprinkling of bright calendula will wend their way between...
