.......just to show that kitten doesn't get it all her own way...........and the paeonies again!..... 

....hard to tell but this is actually a picture of the new variegated ceanothus.........this bed still a bit gappy but we'll see how things get on, the Himalayan poppies are pretty slow and the slugs have eaten the lupins, what a surprise, but the gaultheria is sprouting i see and the veronica seems to be doing well......progress not perfection.... 

the pondside..........it may be a mess but it's a pretty mess.........geranium "Johnson's blue" coming up everywhere as usual, had to rip some out in case it swamps the gentian.....diascia flowering away madly and the usual columbines, don't know if they're the wild ones or the ones i put in but they're nice anyway........and the lilac is wonderful!.. 

.......she likes the chair..........great for scratching....... 

the new yellow and extremely thorny rose now flowering and the organic rose doing extremely well, it's always the first one to flower.... 

dicentra coming to and end, rue flowering.......there are more things growing out of the wall in this garden than there are in the ground, note lovely blue campanula everywhere....... 

paeonies again......... 

..too hot......... 

planting up the hot bed..........more small carpeters....and look, the paeony is out!!..... 

.....i'm a lion, really i am......... 

the wild corner...........beginning to take shape......... 

this corner has always done well..........the chair was my Christmas present from Hopetoun, i got it cheap because it only has one arm and even when they found out it was only meant to have one arm they didn't charge me for it........... 

next door's clematis, and the Dicentra.........it was about 6 in. tall when i got it and look at it now......Oriemtal poppies also up early and i've put in a new one.......... 

hmmmmmm, the lawn needs a bit of work....big gaps in the bed as well but pond area is coming on......... 

the clematis in full bloom 

yes there is a cat in this picture.......just quite well camouflaged on the flagstones...... 

now we're on to the more recent pictures...........Bram dozing under the Hebe.... 

..........looking a bit bare with the bed cleared but plenty of room for new things!....... 

seen from the other end.......the blue glass marks Oscar's resting-place............. 

the finished article with stepping-stones in place......... 

then laying the gravel...........lugging it all back was extremely hard work and messy too.......but it begins to look good......... 

putting down the blanket.........note Katisha helping............ 

this is the new "rockery" at the front......... 

Hemerocallis "Catherine Woodbury" 

Oriental poppies