Quick progress post

[janestarz]

- Pre-latexed ceiling in main bedroom
- Latexed half of attic ceiling
- FINISHED killing off the already-dead Hawthorn (?); now just need to drop it off at the Milieupark tomorrow.
- Bought compost barrel for € 29.95 at Lidl! (It was only a kilometer's drive too!)
- Got over half of my wish list in plants for the garden: IJzerhard, Guldenroede, Kattestaart, Dropplant, Vetmuur, Buddleja, Klokjes, en Zonnehoed.
- Cut back the hydrangea, and started off the compost barrel.
- Bought a bee hotel (OMG! So happy with this!)
- First coat of paint on second bedroom's walls. Just one more layer and it's DONE.
- NoKey latexed the strips of wood in the main bedroom, so that's getting along nicely too.

Many thanks to excellent helping hands: Laiv!

Time for sleeps nao.

Comments

[laiv.livejournal.com]

It's not a Hawthorn, but a Firethorn or Pyracantha. (both are accepted names)

Apparently, Hawthorn is indeed a 'Hagedoorn' aka. 'Meidoorn'

sleep well!

[laiv.livejournal.com]

Also, the mystery plant could very well be 'Dipladenia' (sounds familiar?)aka 'Mandevilla'
it's a non-winterproof vine from South America.

see http://www.kleinknoevenoord.nl/tuininfo/tuinfotos/dipladeniaofmandevilla.html

[charida.livejournal.com]

It is good to read that you've managed to find a good compost barrel. I hope to read somewhere next spring that it is working really well.

Good luck with your garden, I bet it will look wonderfull!

[janestarz.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I should really take some pictures soon.

I really appreciated your offer for the rocks, thank you for that. But 300.000 kilometers was really quite a lot and this offer at Lidl was just perfect timing. We were only there to hand in some bottles, so I guess we really got lucky.

[charida.livejournal.com]

I can imagine you don't look forward to driving that much

It seems the offer was just meant for you :-p it could not have been coincidence.

Have fun with it!