Our garden was beginning to look lovely, the rest of our new ornate plants had started to flower until a couple of weeks a go we had that very heavy down pour of rain which our garden ended up looking like a large lake. The following week was followed by very strong winds.
Most of the garden and our railway survived, but unfortunately I lost a few of our plants that we planted just before the summer, these hadn't had the chance to establish and decided to die off soon after the extreme weather. I'm planning to replace these next year by growing them from seeds.
The inside of our locomotive weather proof electrical boxes remain completely dry and unaffected, they did their job in protecting the electrics from the weather. However the Velcro fixtures were not doing a great job of holding the control boxes, transformers and extension lead in place. So I decided to replace the Velcro with some ply and 2x1 PSE wood which I can then screw the control boxes, transformers and extension lead to.
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Jess Lee, on Flickr
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Jess Lee, on Flickr
A couple of our stick insects have recently past away. They are getting old and have live well past their life expectancy. We still have a good few stick insects left and within the last week, we have had 10 babies ones hatched, we had to freeze the remaining eggs to prevent too many hatching.
This is our fairy garden lit up at night (our final resting place for our stick insets)
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Jess Lee, on Flickr
One of the things that I wanted for the garden was a crazy golf course, I manage to make one out of some spare wood. This is a working progress, but is currently playable. I plan to add more modular sections to this so that I can arrange it in various ways to alter the course. This will eventually be painted with some wood preserver and covered with some fake grass. I've made some temporary obstacles including a ramp and some arches which can be positions in various ways or removed to give a variation of play. I'm hoping to make some proper themeing obstacles for this golf course.
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Jess Lee, on Flickr
It looks like summer has ended weather wise quiet early this year, I'm hoping to get more done this year, subject to the weather, time and budget.