Just a quick postscript to my last post - things are sprouting and flowering and all that. Here are just a few additional photos.
An old friend, always welcome; our white lilac, Madame Lemoine, is a lovely thing, but you have to be quick to catch it at its best - not quite in full flower yet, but the first heavy shower will wreck it!
Vigorous signs of being ready to go again - our Cotinus is a bit of a monster (in a very nice way)
The little red apple tree (with red blossom, and red fruit with bright red flesh) is looking good. The dry summer last year gave us quite a lot of apples, but they were small and as tough as conkers - I hope the wasps enjoyed them...
Appropriate alpines have been planted in the pockets in the old herb garden - I have a little spreadsheet which tells me what they all are...
...to keep the Professor happy, they are (from the far end round to the left): dianthus (Inchriach Dazzler); arenaria (montana); armeria (maritima Deep Rose); sedum (Cape Blanco); campanula (Blue Clips); oxalis (adenophylla); phlox (McDaniel's Cushion); Delosperma (Table Mountain); erodium (Bishops Form)
