The front ranch-style fence celebrates its 50th birthday this year. Graham was two when it was constucted with brass screws and concrete posts. A friend walking by as I painted it with preservative this morning in the cool from 8.30am commented: "I would not worry about replacing any of the wood - it will see you out!" I guess he is right for I do paint it with preservative each year.
I started putting out some bedding plants - trailing verbena in the fence troughs - and tied uyp the clematis on the arch-thing. Yvonne's rose is in bud and the first lilies are poking through and bursting open near the kitchen door.
