Rhodies in bloom, and fine crop of chives!
It actually works! The hill water now runs through the girder and trickles prettily into the pond then flows out the other side. I've planted some water mint and bloody dock for it to flow through; we have fed the red rhodie and given it some ericaceous compost to help it settle in its new position, plus moss and wild thyme from the hill. A bargain blueberry is also in position, not sure if it will make it because on removing the wrapper it was fairly obvious why it was a bargain, but OTOH we have quite a good record with rescue plants. Ditto the loganberry which in in between the raspberries where the compost bins used to be. Have planted some sedums and other creepers and crawlers in between the stones on the dry side..........lamium, snow-in-summer (its fourth move, from Mum's garden to S Queensferry to Trinity to Onich - not the same bit, obviously........), common thyme and saxifrage. Clump of meadowsweet on the boggy side which looks awful at the moment but hopefully will take OK. Now all we can do is leave it all to settle and see what happens............
