People change..

After my remark about my ex-husband's early apathy toward gardening I thought I should include these photos of his present efforts, encouraged by his second wife who actually likes gardening. It's not the best time of year for the shrubs and the larger perennials and it was a dull day Sunday but I think the snaps show the scope and variety of it - and the lack of a boring rectangle of grass! When they took over the house there was only grass, a few rhododendron bushes and large scruffy conifers in the acre or so around the house, which made the whole plot very dark and gloomy. Ten years later it's been transformed. They do have some help, but day-to-day both are out pulling up foolhardy weeds. There's a vegetable garden which produces huge quantities of Jerusalem artichokes among other things, and lots of currant bushes, black, red,and gooseberries.