Golden Acres Group Blog
Please
do remember to put out fresh supplies of food for the birds the prolonged
periods of wet weather and flooding are a real threat to our feathered friends.
Feed them with good quality high energy bird food and fat/suet balls and check
that clean water is available. If you can’t find any bird food, scraps of bacon
fat, mild cheese, fruit, breakfast cereal and uncooked oats are all fine.
Moistened bread is only an empty filler, but better than nothing.
If
the rain ever stops, It’s time for doing a bit of pruning this week, firstly
I’m hoping to tackle the Wisteria and will cut all stems coming off the main
framework to 2 or 3 buds of the previous years’ growth. It’s growing over a
wooden pagoda against our garage and if I don’t cut it back now it ends up
covering the roof and the tendrils have been known to get under the tiles!
On with the next project for this year. Last year
we laid our square front garden to lawn and dug a 3ft border around three sides
and used a layer of breeze-blocks as a wall, all year I’ve looked at the blocks hoping they would start to blend in but alas no! 
I’ve already got a Fatsia (Castor Oil Plant) in one of the corners and
Japanese maples, and I’ve been looking at some of the miniature black and
variegated grasses and bamboos to plant hanging over the blocks. As a focal
point I’m going to grow three box balls and try a bit of topiary! I’ve got two
large red planters that I’ll fill with white azaleas.