[jambutty]

Originally Posted by garinda

Jambutty, I think it'll look great when it's established.

If you could get your grandson to use a scythe on this year's growth, it should help the seedlings flourish next year.

The yellow poppies are called Welsh poppies by the way, and you're right, they are the easiet, and prettiest plant to grow from seeds that isn't a damn weed.

I’m hoping so but there’s not much to do now except keep attacking any grass that decided to show. Come autumn proper when the trees have shed all their leaves I will get my slave to dig them in. This will not only help the fertility of the soil but bring any remaining grass roots into the open to be killed off by the winter weather – hopefully.

Most of the grass is now dead so it will rot down of its own accord. I had considered borrowing a blowtorch and burning it off.

A Welsh poppy eh! We live and learn. Thanks!

A weed? (Said in a trembling old voice much like Lady Bracknell in the original film of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance Of Being Ernest” – A handbag?)

Surely that’s just a plant in the wrong place.