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February 19, 2012
I should have got round to this before, but having a litter of puppies means that things are fairly hectic and after they go to their new homes, it takes time to get back to some semblance of normality. Anyway, I would like to introduce you to our new puppy – Anya.
Anya is now three months old. It is my intention to follow her in this blog as she grows up and eventually gets introduced to the garden. As you can guess, it is pretty hard to get a young puppy to keep still for a photo, but she managed it for a second.
At the moment her outdoor excursions in the garden are restricted to the puppy playpen. There is no way that I would leave her loose in the garden. There are far too many places where she could hide and maybe cause mischief.
The main lessons that she is currently focusing on can be divided into two very broad categories, socialisation and training. These lessons will be subjects for future blogs.
Socialisation is a very important one. In these early days, puppies get the foundation ideas about how they see the world, so it is important to introduce them to a wide variety of experiences without “over-facing” them.
Vaccination programmes these days meant that Anya was able to go out into the outside world at 10 weeks. This meant that there was less time than in the past to keep her occupied with new experiences at home and her education could start earlier.
February 15, 2012
The Feb 18 issue of Amateur Gardening features our garden.
Amateur Gardening - 18 Feb 2012
Some of you may remember that I posted last July that we had been visited by a reporter and photographer from Amateur Gardening magazine. The fruits of their labours can be found in this week’s magazine.
I will now be contacting the photographer as he promised me the photos that were not used by the magazine. It will be wonderful to have the record of how the garden looked on that lovely summer’s day.
January 19, 2012
I waited a few days to do my major wisteria prune this year and I am really glad I did so. We had arranged to have solar panels fitted and when I saw the scaffolding going up, I realised that this would be a really easy way of doing the pruning. There would be no need to keep repositioning the ladder (which is not an easy task) – I could reach the whole of my wisteria from the first layer of the scaffolding.
Imagine my sadness when the workmen went up a level and, having established a platform for the solar guys, removed the boards at the level I needed for my pruning. Fortunately, they had to come back the next day and so offered to bring some more boards for me 
.
Scaffolding makes Wisteria pruning very easy
I have never pruned the wisteria so easily. The whole job was done in two 30 min sessions. There was a slight downside though – I suffer from vertigo sometimes and getting on the ladder to come down was not an easy thing to do!
There were only two shoots that had managed to get themselves so embedded in the house that they did not come away easily. Fortunately, there was a workman on the upper level who quickly solved my problem.
Next year, I will definitely be looking into the cost of putting up scaffolding to do the job again.
 | Sue Jones on Introducing Anya |
 | Barhi on Introducing Anya |
| Sue Jones on Introducing Anya |
| Barhi on Introducing Anya |
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