Progress…
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OH that’s nice, I want one. 
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You probably wouldn’t want this one but one like it. There has been trouble with missing parts (still haven’t got them) and compromises made by our clever builder. It will turn out OK in the end but it is being a trial.
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That looks good Mart, and very well presented. Are the sides made of timber or composite material?
They are, or were, very popular here as hedges, they are a pretty bush, but a few kids on their way to school would break of a branch.twig and stick it in their mouth as kids are wont to do. and make themselves ill I still see a number of bushes on my walks.
I also vaguely remember reading about a woman convicted of killing her husband (or attempting to?) by making the leaves into angelica (sp?) to put on a cake for him - actually I might not have read it my first wife might have told me, not sure.
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Good work! This garden building will be very handy, I could do with one of those, but no space and land is too slopy.
Beautiful! Wonderful Colour!
They are a composite coating on top of what looks like chip board, then comes a layer of insulation and then another layer of board that forms the inside wall. The composite coating doesn’t all that thick to me, so for best weatherproofing, I’m going to give the outside walls a coating of composite door paint of more or less the same colour.
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This are flowers from my echinopsis cactus plant, I’m not sure which variety it is, maybe a tubiflora, these flowers don’t last long, open up in the evening and close the day after and just wither.
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Terrific Rose!
There’s something a bit special when cacti flower. It’s that contrast between the spikiness (ouch!) and the colourful blooms. That’s quite a collection, do you have to bring them indoors during winter or is the Italian climate kind to them all year round?
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Thanks Chilli, it’s always outside in my back yard, I don’t need to bring it inside for the Winter. Winters have actually been much milder in recent years, but it has already resisted freezing temperatures, ice and snow.
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Some people are like that Rose…I’ve heard many a confession over a few beers in the pub in the evenings, and then they deny all knowledge the next day when they’ve sobered up…
I could tell you some stories…
Nice sharp photos though Rose, you’ll have to teach some of the would be photographers on here how to take good pictures of flowers…
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Thank you for your kind praise @OldGreyFox, I’ve never thought of myself as a good photographer, the opposite really! 
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Don’t put yourself down Rose, you post some beautiful pictures…
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Thank you, once again. 
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I tried:
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Just a quick idea others might like to try. Late evening getting dark can produce a different type of shot. it needs a steady light such as an LED CN-160 on tripod to get the angle of light where you want it and a camera on another tripod to frame and make the photo
Having got the light right on the flower/plant/whatever then angle the camera upwards with a darker background.
Anyway that is how I took this shot. Not very good but then I am not as good a photographer as others on here
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