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Photo Album

'The Corrie' garden - Patio

 

The Patio has been enlarged several times over the last five years, from being a tiny area barely big enough to have four chairs to a fairly extensive strip right along the back of the house.

 

snowdrops.jpg (29539 bytes) A little bit of welcome life in winter. The ubiquitous snowdrop. patio.jpg (33445 bytes) The Patio at the back of the house. South facing.
June 2002 showing new steps

 

patio-1.jpg (42137 bytes) Taken just after the new steps were completed.

 

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bird.jpg (36010 bytes) Baby bird, not camera shy. flower-2.jpg (55636 bytes) This is my favorite pot (cannonball shaped) with a sedum spathulifolium  'Purpureum' giving lots of colour and shape in late April and May
Jean is very pleased with this ...... springing out of a gravelly bed in the patio. I will name it when I know what it is, promise.

 

flower.jpg (37096 bytes) Campanula

 

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Cerinthe (15351 bytes) Cerinthe Sedum.jpg (73351 bytes) Sedum

A bee, a Canna and a beasty

 

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near the house Pergola Patio Top end Woodland Sunsets Ponds Fruit & Veg Top path Around the bird table Macro lens