I've been threatening to do rain barrels on my back porch for 3 years Pam and never have gotten to it yet Pam. Maybe this year. I keep sawing the barrels I get with plans to create two and turn them into planters.
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I will follow your advice with the Lychee tree Elaine, and have found a sunny spot in the back gardens that will hopefully be enough protected behind my little greenhouse and in front of the Oaks.