Winter colour in the garden

Winter colour in the garden
Originally uploaded by burtonfield

Jen took this great shot last weekend.

Burtonfield in Bloom

Just to show that we can do tasteless planting with the best of them...here is our "bit of fun" for this year with a complete mashup of annuals in the roundabout...

...not quite the same as our much more restrained and styled "hosta walk" (work in progress...its only half a walk at the moment!)....

Burtonfield in 3D

Having discussed the Google Sketchup program at work, I decided I'd have a go at putting together a model of Burtonfield.... MK I can be seen here:

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=1cc6ccbce0f41e3855608dab83338198&prevstart=0

There is a link on this page to open the model in Google Earth.

Not many doors or windows at the moment, since I need to take some photos of the house to use as textures, but its a start!

Planted...

I last updated you with the conifer we'd removed from the roundabout, well this has now been planted...looking forward to seeing what it looks like when it fills out!

This is very much a temporary feature, since we plan to convert the whole of this area to a "parterre" garden, and indeed, are thinking about a possible formal sunken pond where the roundabout is at present...

Also took this snap of the statue we've christened "Jeanette", surrounded by the beautiful show of white foxgloves we've got at the moment.