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| Once a year The Old Rectory holds an annual Fete to raise funds for the benefit of the residents. The funds are used to buy equipment and other items that help to make their stay enjoyable. |
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| These images show some of the staff setting up the gazebo's |
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| Garden Terrorist! - the lovely Jacks, The Old Rectory's very own pet dog |
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| The weather was fantastic, totally out of character for June :) |
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| Always nice to get the mower out |
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| The lawn had a spring weed and feed which is now showing a bit of a return |
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| I'm going to re-seed the grass in the autumn to try and build it up |
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| The two deceased saplings .. soon to be removed |
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| The rockery base |
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| What d'yer mean it looks like Stonehenge .... |
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| The rocks arrived ready for the next phase of the rockery development |
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| The idea that I have is to make an outer ring and then infill it with soil and then arrange the remaining rocks on top (you may have guessed I've never done this before) |
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| The infill of the first layer complete - I just wish I had more rocks to make the footprint a bit bigger |
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| The second tier of rocks in place and bedded with more soil |
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| Waiting for plants |
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| Planting complete |
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| This side of The Old Rectory is mainly a narrow path which gets a small amount of sunshine in the late afternoon |
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| This original brick edged bed has been cleared of weeds and debris |
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| Unfortunately part of the end wall has disappeared and its had to be replaced with ordinary house bricks - it's not satisfactory but it will have to do for now |
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| Once again box shrubs recovered from the front garden have been re-planted in the bed |
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| The Sensory Garden before weeding and tidy |
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| I love my wheel barrow |
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| The garden after a quick overhaul in June 2011 - some of the shrubs have died due to lack of watering including the feature shrub behind the water ball |
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| Rows of potatoes where once there was scrub grass |
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| Courgette and tomato plants freshly planted |
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| More tomato plants about to be planted |
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| The rear path before landscaping |
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| Before the vegetable plot was dug |
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| Recovered wooden trellis ready to be fixed |
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| The Kitchen Garden was a dumping ground |
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| Much tidier once the digging began - the blocks help define the border |
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| Recovered box shrubs from the front garden re-planted |
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| The trellis were tied to the wall to break up its blandness |
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| Again small lanscaping with blocks and shrubs |
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| Grass re-seeding needed and has since been carried out |
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| Bins now moved and the mud replaced with block paving |
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| The finished paving |
