Watering

Sprinkler
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Hose
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A hot weekend is forecast, so perhaps it's the right time to be watering the plants.

This planting business seems to involve large stretches of sitting around on benches, though. I guess you have to be patient to be a successful gardener.

Someone came to service and change the portaloo today — not a job that many people would envy on a hot day.

More planting...

Planting and pots
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... and nothing more to say beyond that.

Plant bed

Plant bed
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I was out for most of today, but here's some of the evidence of further planting I found on my return.

There are also some ferny things along the borders of the Quiet Garden.

The portaloo is standing again.

A hint of green

First planting
Originally uploaded by davidjennings.

A batch of plants was delivered this morning, and here are some of them planted in the Chequer Court side of the site.

I guess they will fill out in due course, but is it too disparaging to say they look rather like desert scrub at the moment?

Planting about to begin?

Landscapers arrive
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Little has happened since I last posted here. After persistent efforts, the security fence was finally broken. A supermarket shopping basket appeared on site, and then disappeared. There's a broken umbrella and packaging of several varieties of snack and fast food.

There were a couple of people inspecting the site again last Wednesday, but, apart from that, nothing.

Last night I snuck into the Quiet Garden — well, everyone else in the neighbourhood seems to have done so — and discovered that the Hoggin is not 'scarred' as I put it. The surface is actually sandy and loose. So again I'm not sure if it's actually finished.

Today this van turned up, apparently from Coblands Landscapes (see their clumsy web site). If that's the case, then perhaps the planting is about to begin. But if they did anything today other than tip out the soil in their trailer, I didn't see it.