Quite a productive day

Not a great deal of sunshine today but at least it stayed dry enough especially, for me to get outside and plant the trees that arrived yesterday. But first I did a little indoors job, finishing off my wall décor in my bathroom. I’m very pleased with the result and think that the bright colours nicely offset the otherwise plain gloss white of the walls.

The two little figures were on the wall of my old bathroom back in England but although I brought the starfish with me, I didn’t know that I had them until I came across them when I unpacked an old box that hadn’t been opened since I arrived in France twelve years ago. I think they go nicely. I’ve had to drill four small holes in the tiles but I’m not worried as I doubt the ornaments will be removed in my lifetime 🙂

I was then able to get going with the work in the garden, starting with replacing the apple that had been broken off with the new tree that arrived yesterday.

Then I moved on to replacing the two weedy little cherries that were bitten down to sprigs only a metre high by the deer with the new trees that also arrived yesterday. Here are the two trees that I took out.

And here are the two new trees that I replaced them with.

This is where I transplanted the old trees to, over on the left hand side of the garden. It’s up to them now (and the deer I guess) as to whether they survive and prosper or not 😐

Finally, a couple of shots of the new tree group showing the new apple, the two new cherries and the original plum that has also been given a bad time by the deer and has had quite a bit of bark and some low branches that produced some fruit last year, gnawed off.

I think I’m going to have to provide some protection for all the trees as although there’s plenty of other food for the local deer at this time of the year, they only have to hit the trees once to do an awful lot of damage and I don’t want anything to happen to the new ones, which are of excellent quality compared to the two original old cherries.