The garden is now looking really full with bursts of colour.
The garden
Garden and the chicken run
The huge poppies in front of the run are a vivid orange and in the chicken run the pink rose has just started flowering. The chickens will enjoy the petals when they fall.
View from the chicken run
One of the shrubs we moved from the garden to the run hasn’t survived as it just didn’t have enough root ball on it. I decided to take it out and plant a rosemary. Once it grows it will become quite woody and should be tough enough to survive the girls. While it is small and tender it will need some protection to stop it being stripped.
I have planted the rosemary
I bought the biggest one I could find but now it’s in it looks really small. Sparkle always stays close when I dig in case there are some worms to be had and she is already inspecting the rosemary.
I laid the plant I took out in the run for the girls peck over.
Topaz finds a few remaining leaves
I then set about rigging up some protection for the rosemary. It’s not very attractive and I may come up with something better but I had to use the materials I had to hand.
The Rosemary
It looks messy on top because I layered it to protect the girls if they landed on it. I have tried to make it solid enough to withstand them possibly jumping on it with all sharp edges tucked out of the way. I may see what’s available in the garden centre and see if I can come up with something better.
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That looks good as usual. You have been busy.
If you don’t mind my advice I would have put the Rosemary in a large pot. If it did start getting nibbled you could remove it until recovered . They would probably jump in the pot and have a nibble at the earth but it would be another structure. I have a large bay tree in a pot and they just stand in the pot every so often ( not all of them at the same time )
I hadn’t thought of that. Of course when I bought it home in the pot it looked quite large but as soon as I planted it, it seemed to disappear.
I have my moments… Put it in a very big one
I have already taken my ridiculous contraption off. I can’t believe I photographed that and put it on my blog! I will leave it for a bit and see if it gets pecked before going for a pot. I think they don’t like it anyway.