Lime trees are a joy in every season. I have particularly happy memories of the lime trees beneath my windows during my year in France as part of my degree. Windows flung wide open on the warm evenings, and the scent of lime blossoming perfuming my room.
I'm interested in your Cast Iron planter - did you put a big drainage layer in the bottom/drill holes apart from the obvious plug hole? I have a metal wheelbarrow that I want to recycle this way and am pondering drainage.
That hop is gorgeous - where do you have it and is it a thug or well-behaved?
Ps The Hop - tough and determined to do his thing - but more of a Steve McQueen than an Oliver Reed. You can reason with him. You can pull offshoots out and give them to your friends. Got him on a big metal obelisk. Had him on the arch but I seem to have curbed him too much there and he’s died away. If Golden Hop was a female star probably be Bette Midler. Definitely recommend if you want a show !
I have it raised up on bricks to give water a chance to run away from there… And I did half fill it with polystyrene and gravel… with the wheelbarrow I would try to drill holes in it…
Lime trees are a joy in every season. I have particularly happy memories of the lime trees beneath my windows during my year in France as part of my degree. Windows flung wide open on the warm evenings, and the scent of lime blossoming perfuming my room.
I'm interested in your Cast Iron planter - did you put a big drainage layer in the bottom/drill holes apart from the obvious plug hole? I have a metal wheelbarrow that I want to recycle this way and am pondering drainage.
That hop is gorgeous - where do you have it and is it a thug or well-behaved?
Ps The Hop - tough and determined to do his thing - but more of a Steve McQueen than an Oliver Reed. You can reason with him. You can pull offshoots out and give them to your friends. Got him on a big metal obelisk. Had him on the arch but I seem to have curbed him too much there and he’s died away. If Golden Hop was a female star probably be Bette Midler. Definitely recommend if you want a show !
There’s only the plug hole in the bath.
I have it raised up on bricks to give water a chance to run away from there… And I did half fill it with polystyrene and gravel… with the wheelbarrow I would try to drill holes in it…
Love the hue of the new lime leaves - my backdrop in the garden is three limes and soon they will be buzzing with bees.