2015

We didn’t have a lot of big plans for this week, so thought it would be a time to put feet up. That’s what retirement is about, isn’t it? Anyway, Lisa had a number of commitments for her volunteering with Georgia Mountains Master Gardeners (she is deep into the organisation of the State conference in […]

We were busy this week preparing for our next visitors. The newly framed pictures (a series of “Four Seasons” trees, painted by our Ealing neighbour Will Redpath) have been hung in the entrance hall (herinafter designated the Redpath Gallery). And in our bathroom there are now three bird/flower prints by noted Georgia artist Mary Booth

The forecasts at the start of the week indicate ten days of warmth and sunshine with very little rain. What a change. It means that I could try to make some more progress on my great rockmoving project. For a second time, Ricky came to the fore as I moved a further ton of rocks

After all the rain we have had, the forecasts for the coming week were more hopeful. Though with five days still to go, we seem to be certain of a record wet April. So, no excuses this week for not getting on with my dry creek project. But that didn’t happen on Sunday – that

Now that Spring is supposed to be well bedded in, we could do with a bit of sunshine to speed up the plants after all the rain last week. But things didn’t really work out like that. On Sunday 19th we were planning to visit an azalea garden on display, but we drove back to

We started this week off in style with a long lazy Sunday lunch with Allison and David, longstanding friends from Atlanta. The Big Green Egg, resplendent in its new table, had its first use, with a very nice large piece of steak. Sunday was the end of any pretence at good weather. During this week,

After the really cold weather last week, things have improved a little on the temperature front. We had a quiet time over the Easter weekend, doing more planting (for a non-existent garden, there is a lot going into the ground).  I also assembled the new table for the Big Green Egg barbeque, but I couldn’t

More gardening was scheduled for this week (on the assumption that we get better weather). As well as all the plants from hither and yon we already have lying about, we went on Tuesday on a cross-country drive to pick up a large number of daylillies. A professional specialist gardener was doing a weed out

On Sunday afternoon, we went down the road to Cavender Creek winery, to share a glass at the bar with friends. This is the nearest winery to home, and it serves as a social centre for several locals (like us). It gave us a chance to discuss with the owners, Donna and Raymond, something which

Anyway, this week we can made a start on some planting in the front of the house, though the rear with have to wait for some large scale landscaping. We took delivery of four classic rose bushes from David Austen. And we also purchased a seven foot high autumn-flowering cherry tree from a local nursery.