| #143 |
The "Rockery" makeover.
The rockery is just a fanciful name for a mound of soil and a heap of rocks - it was created to solve a problem.
When I moved here the house next door (uphill) had not been built, although plans had been approved so I knew it would happen. There was a wild hedge , including some horrible spindly conifers on the boundary and they needed to be taken down as they overhung the boundary, where they proposed to build a wall.
The trees were felled, leaving the stumps - like broken teeth they grated. So I covered them up with soil and some rocks that materialising out of the house build.
It was very neat and tidy with lots of herbs and spring flowers for years but, the inevitable happened, brambles and montbretia appeared and my rockery gradually disappeared. At the same time, my GH empire grew, GH2 was first on the east of the rockery. Then next door gave me their GH - GH3 which went on the flat ground to the west of the rockery. GH1 came next and went to the south of the rockery - so all 3 are easily accessible from the house, but not from each other. The rockery is a mountain in between.
Bits of all 3 GHs with the Rockery in between
The path from the house being widened.
Looking back along the path, rockery on the right.
From the door of GH2, towards GH3. This is where I need a path!
The rockery is just a fanciful name for a mound of soil and a heap of rocks - it was created to solve a problem.
When I moved here the house next door (uphill) had not been built, although plans had been approved so I knew it would happen. There was a wild hedge , including some horrible spindly conifers on the boundary and they needed to be taken down as they overhung the boundary, where they proposed to build a wall.
The trees were felled, leaving the stumps - like broken teeth they grated. So I covered them up with soil and some rocks that materialising out of the house build.
It was very neat and tidy with lots of herbs and spring flowers for years but, the inevitable happened, brambles and montbretia appeared and my rockery gradually disappeared. At the same time, my GH empire grew, GH2 was first on the east of the rockery. Then next door gave me their GH - GH3 which went on the flat ground to the west of the rockery. GH1 came next and went to the south of the rockery - so all 3 are easily accessible from the house, but not from each other. The rockery is a mountain in between.
The Moneyless Chicken says:-
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.
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