Gardening Wednesday (20th April 2022)

Gardening Wednesday was a little different this week as it began with collecting a trailer-load of unwanted soil from a builder's bag at Refna's, and then when I got home dragging the full weight of the trailer through my car port, close to where it was to be unloaded.

Refna came over on her bicycle after she'd walked the dog and then spent the morning clearing and levelling the relevant area, stacking a layer of bricks to protect the fence from the new bed and shaping the surface.

The theory was to create a utility area in a dark corner where things wouldn't grow and where they wouldn't be so visible, and to move the dustbins and composters there from less shaded areas where plants would have a better chance to thrive and be seen. To the left of the utility area is where my struggling fernery had previously been, between the car port and a garage wall, and that is to be covered with Cerney gravel to match under the car port. I will then be able to get to the car doors on either side!

During Refna's excavations she unearthed what I am confident to be a genuine neolithic Colt 45 toy ;-), about one and a bit inches in length, which I scrubbed up. The utility area was more or less done by the time she left.

This blip shows some new tulips that have come up for the first time. Some more shots from the day are in the April Woodland Garden Flickr album.

L.
Saturday 23.4.2022 (1830 hr)

Blip #3636 (#3386 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #025
Blips/Extras In 2022 #074/265 + #029/100 Extras
Day #4411 (1029 gaps from 26.3.2010)
LOTD #2780 (#2620 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Pentax K-5 and Pentax HD P-DA 35mm F2.8 macro prime limited lens

Old Forge series
Woodland Garden
Macro series
Flora series
Tulips series

Woodland Garden (April 2022) (Flickr album)(So far)

Lozarhythm Of The Day:
The Factory - Path Through The Forest (recorded Summer 1968, IBC Studios, Portland Place, London)
This is in my own collection but I hadn't heard it for many years until it popped up on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone this month as an example of sixties 'Freak Beat' (a genre concocted retrospectively). A vinyl copy of the single is worth £1,000 or so but it is available on CD compilations including Nuggets II. It has the distinction of being kept in John Peel's legendary Record Box that he kept by his side. The band were from Surrey and had previously been known as Souvenir Badge Factory. The song had been written by a young Clifford T Ward, but he does not appear on the record.