Thread by @Hal_Duncan

One delphinium into Undercherry today in #Rakesden...

... replacing an ash seedling dug out and potted, one of three up on the cubbies now along with the birches. Handsome fellow. I have no idea if you can bonsai birch, but hopefully he'll survive in the pot.

*bonsai ash, duh.

Salvage from round the corner has become a planter in the back lane, with one Himalayan honeysuckle, one fern, and one clump of crocosmia.

The idea is to define an entrance at the gates. The HH should grow pretty big, I reckon, though we'll see if it's OK with less soil. The roots didn't seem that big when I dug it out of Langshaw in front of the hydrangea.

Dug another one from Undercherry and stuck it in the soil-filled divet on the other side and up the lane a few steps.

I suspect even with their roots restricted they could grow huge. Lack of soil doesn't seem to stop the trees.

Also used some rubble to edge the other side of the lane from the compost, just to neaten things up. Maybe try and get some golden dead nettle into the bare patch there. Also might slip some spring bulbs in there for the autumn. Snake's head fritillaries are a definite candidate.

And while rootling around along the lane, I found a honeysuckle, I think, hiding away with nothing to climb. So that's been moved to the divet bed with support to lead it to the gate.

Once the skip is gone, and once things have grown, eventually we should have some good screening on either side of the lane to hide any crap tipped beyond it.

Now how do I get some of those graffiti artists we have kicking about Glasgow, doing cool shit outside Kelvinbridge underground and suchlike, to go wild on that wall on the right, heh?

Also I'd kinda like to get old bricks built up round the planter, partly to hide the white, partly in case it falls apart. Or ideally sandstone blocks from the building site, but there's nae chance of me getting those shuge lumps of stone out through the wee gaps in the fence.