Yesterday was a thrilling, but a very very long day. We needed to start to get the kitchen units stained up and this was going to be a big problem with both the weather, and the heavy blossom that still continues to fall at chelsea. We had to erect a large tarpaulin cover over the whole of the garden to create a clean, dry environment. As luck would have it the BBC turned up to film us just as we had got the tarpaulin up and cleaned all of the site - this meant of course that they couldn't film unless we took the whole lot down - something which we really didn't have time to do - what a shame! Proportion of London, very kindly lent us one of the 'Varnishers' to carry out the staining, and in fact Des is back again today to finish the job - big thankyou to Des, and of course my hubby Keith for loaning us Des. Our landscaping team spent the whole day finishing off the hard scape and solving all those niggly little corners etc, big big thank you to Mark of Terra Firma, who didn't get home until gone 10pm last night! They have done an amazing job, and the garden is beginning to look brill.
We finally managed to start to move some of the plants into the growing trays at 8pm last night - very very exciting - it is now beginning to actually look more like a garden. So looking forward to a enjoyable day to day, hope to get all the plants laid out, and if possible to start planting some of them up. Janie and Mandy did a bit of creative planting design to my planters, they were supposed to be being planted with Nasturtiums, but since these are far from in flower, they have come up with a lovely alternative....................you'll have to come and see the garden to find out what they've done.
Must go have got to get back up to Chelsea and our plants.
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