On the doorstep

With things on the go all over the place the front of the house can get a bit neglected – something we having been trying to rectify this week.

Here is a picture taken in April when we got a magnolia

As we wanted it outside the house, where there is clay below the gravel, we had to build a deep drainage sump so it would not become waterlogged

It seems to be happy there

Last month we got a load of stone to build a circular wall round the blue barrel

The dumpy bag has sat outside the front door since then so we decided to throw up a quick dry stone surround until we could do a proper job.

We could not resist this pair of bay trees from a local eBay seller

Then we found he was also selling olive trees

and

not to mention

So we are getting a bit tidier on the doorstep

Some other nearby flowerings: