Wednesday 10th March and Mick Gentry, our contractor, and myself traveled up to London to assess the site of the Global Stone Bee Friendly Plants Garden. We were most concerned as to whether the ground would be level, so we went armed with a staff and laser . An uneven site would cause untold problems, particularly as we have been informed by the RHS that there is no excavation permitted in Ranelagh Gardens.  As a consequence, the structure of the garden is going to be built almost like a raised stage set to accommodate the root ball of our tree.

The site - and Mick!

We were led to plot RM 15 by a gardener from the Royal Hospital, and joy of joys, the area allocated to us was, to all intents and purposes,  level! At this point, reality really did set in,  in just over two months, our garden would be sitting in this very spot.