Before and after x 2

You will recall (keep up!!) that in the daisy etc border we have apples in the course of being espaliered, and that I was reserving a space on each side for an ornamental of some sort.  So the last pic you saw had plant / no plant as shown here.

But that was 'before'...






'After'
...with my birthday money from Judy and Pat, I have bought a coral-bark maple to go at the shady end of the border. Isn't it absolutely lovely?  Amusingly, it came with a label saying "Plants do not look their best at this time of year".  It's going to have to go some to look better than this - although it is also supposed to do spectacular spring and autumn colour, so maybe they are right.  V pleased - thank you Pat and Judy!



The next 'before' and 'after' requires a reprise of a post from December 2014 when we had just gone out to quote for the project.  We finished the year with a pic of our Christmas tree in the bungalow

<< and it looked like this...  What a little cutie!


>>>four years later, here it is again - an inch short of the ceiling :)