[garinda]

Latest update.

Just got back from having my haircut at my cousin's hairdressers. The summer hanging baskets have been erected today and do look very nice at the moment, although the ones outside her shop and Owen and Ewings are hung fifteen feet off the pavement. They were told another man is coming round next week if people want them moved lower, so that they can be watered. At the moment you'd have to have a pair of window cleaner's ladders to water them. It might have saved man hours if this task had just been done once and they had been put in the right place to begin with.

Interestingly whilst I was being shorn, a HBC truck came round and watered the ones that had been hung from the lamposts last week. So the council do water those.

Also because the shopkeepers have to store the winter flowering ones I managed to give one a closer inspection. Although it was stone dry the ivy was still green amongst the other dead plants, leading me to believe that they could be planted with species that require no maintenance at all.