We were due to start our show garden tomorrow. But this morning we found out that our plot had been laid out the wrong way. It's meant to be 5.4 metres wide and 6.1 deep, but was 6.1 wide and 5.4 deep. Our plot is one that can only really be viewed from the front, so we didn't want to have to rotate the garden, leaving it not particularly viewable from its best angle. Our garden does look good from the side, but it very much looks like a garden being viewed from the side, so we don't want this to be the only view people get.
Someone had dug out our beds and the holes for us to plant the trees in with a digger for us, but obviously they were in the wrong place. My dad went down to Birmingham to draw out the garden facing the right way (he's a civil engineer so he's very precise with a tin of spray paint!) and it has now been re-dug.
So the volunteers going down tomorrow can plant the trees in the correct place, wooo!
The shrubs we'd been growing, the dogwoods, haven't been looking too good - their leaves are a bit small. We'd been trying to find some to buy to replace them with, and failing. We've decided to swap them for another native shrub species, and we've found a supplier of good quality plants, so we'll now have shrubs too.
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