No idea about Bonsai……but a health check might be a good call, set it up for your new home.
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What are you going to use that building for?
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The pot is too small and it needs trimming.
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It probably does but we’re scared to touch it. Something that’s survived this long without any real maintenance is a miracle and I don’t want to risk it.
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The doors can be entirely opened so it’s going to be a kind of garden room in the summer for evenings etc.
It has 3 electricity cables connected to it, one for solar panels, one for charging a car (future) and one for the building itself.
It’s mostly going to be my home office in the coming years.
Weekend chill space for the teenagers.
Care home if one of the parents needs it.
Rental place if pension is not enough.
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It’s probably like going for your haircut…….but every 20 years……i know nothing about this specialist plant care though😂
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Herbs and chilies are essential to many dishes. I’ve tried a lot but managed only once to get many chilies from a plant. I think it takes a greenhouse here and an early season start to grow them in vast amounts. I’ve 3 spices needed for soups now, but I miss the Lavas at the moment. Need to get that somewhere in the empty spots of the garden.
It would make a dream gym.
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I do always have fresh herbs but 2 I struggle with one which I can’t explain as it grow like a weed but I seem to kill it - Rosemary. The other is coriander I can’t keep that alive for live and/or money.
Plants can survive up to a certain point, then they need help if confined. It will at some point deteriorate and when it does, it’s harder to get back. You wouldn’t kill it by repotting in a larger shallow pot and trimming in in half,it will invigorate it.
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Your garden is looking good should be great once the weather starts to warm up.
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I’ve just googled an expert about an hour from us think I’ll take it to them rather than risk it.
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Tomorrow the new fence for the chickens will be placed. I need to build a coup in the coming weeks and if done we can get new young ladies in March.
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Certainly. There is just a base concrete floor in it at the moment. At the end of the month the floor heating gets prepared. Unfortunately we’re running out of money so the ashp has to wait.
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My latest garden project is repair and repainting…will finish it this today with final coat nearly completed.
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I know what that running out of money feeling feels like.
But quality doesn’t come cheap, and the transformation on your garden has Wow-factor by the bucket loads.
That new super-deluxe outhouse is amazing! …would be the perfect garage for the Harley-Davidson, the Yamaha, the Triumph, fully racked out tool bench, and a pot plant in the corner 
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It looks sadly like my two front garden laurels have died this winter 
Planted them about 8 years ago, and they don’t usually go dry and brown in winter.
It’s not been particularly cold or dry and haven’t a clue what could have caused this (?)
Two different species planted side by side, how they looked in June 2021 below:
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I would call them hebe. Mine have suffered when it fell to -8, not quite as badly as yours. This is the best information that I found Hebe: how to grow, when to prune and which to plant | Gardens Illustrated
Looks like wait six weeks before making any decision.
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