Easter weekend.

Never mind the chocolate, for me personally the Easter weekend means spending a decent amount of time in the garden.  In the UK, both Good Friday and Easter Monday are bank holidays, which means a lie-in too!

Since there was decorating to be done inside first, and Sunday was relatively quiet and restful, Monday was my garden day.  Woken by a tenacious bluetit singing his little heart out, we headed out with a list.

1. Paving slabs

2. Sand

3. Bird box 

4. Bird food

5. Fatsia japonica 

6. Hebe

7. Pittosporum tenufolium 

8. Yellow sticky sheets 

On our return, the bird box on the front of the house was replaced as the roof had rotted away on the old one.  Thankfully no birds were disturbed.  

The paving slabs and sand were put down the bottom of the garden for a later date.

Today's task was a big one.  The Man That Can took apart the back of the waterfall and removed the fern and the hardy geranium, along with all the soil as it was riddled with Japanese anemone roots that had run amok.  The clematis (? Wisley Cream) was also removed as it was a very scruffy plant that was difficult to reach.

Each stone from the dry-stone walling at the back of the pond was repositioned, new soil filled the planting pockets and topped up the bed at the rear of the pond where all the roots had been firkled out.  Now one pot of purple spires has been planted, which will soon unfurl a hosta that had previously lived in the Pink Garden.  In the other pocket is a beautiful purple hellebore.

Ebb now resides behind the waterfall and a small fatsia japonica has been planted.  This shouldn't take long to grow into a large evergreen plant, and it should be happy in the shaded part of this area.

It just needs the slate replacing.

Oh, and the other plants were Pittosporum tenufolium Variegatum and Hebe Mrs Winder...for another day.