June

 

June has been very dry and hot! The plants have struggled in some areas and have required watering we are very fortunate that local people have helped us with this. Also we have had the community payback team working in the churchyard and they have done a really good job clearing around overgrown graves and weeding the flagged path. Elsewhere we have finally finished clearing a stretch of the lovely stone wall opposite the South Porch. This North facing wall is very dry at the base but will provide a lovely backdrop to plants that can tolerate those conditions, in the same area a butterfly house and open fronted nest box have been put up both made from recycled ocean plastic. Also making the most of this dry spell we finished painting the Joseph Hauge Memorial picking out the finials in antique gold.