Too hot today but took some pics around the garden. Started my next project and nearly got finished yesterday x
The nepta is so lush from all the rain, have just put down a load of annual seed on the soil areas until I decide if I want more iris around the area or some boggy type plants that may be also able to stand dry!
Any suggestions?
Need to go and buy more pieces of slate and some smaller pebbles to finish it off.
This is my second attempt at this area as changed my mind.
A tiny bit of cleaning up, dead heading, watering, took the kids to the park...then watered myself with pouilly fumé.
Sounds a good day, Tin pot. We have been watering ourselves this evening with Prosecco and Gerwertztraminer. Glad my bit of gardening was done in the morning, it was 28° in Burgandy this afternoon, but son carried on, hope he isn't sunburnt.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
I now have a very "posh" greenhouse. It is draped in white lace curtaining instead of whitewash shading or green plastic shading. Not sure if it will stay there if we have any more gales but at the moment is doing the job. It is called"thinking outside the box".
Pottered today until I could barely walk and it was too hot. Potted on a couple of hostas and a big container. Snipped off die back from sundry plants, did a bit of weeding, unwrapped the ginger lilies etc. etc. am hoping to have a bonfire soon.
The dog is looking very forlorn as we haven't been out for a few days for a beach walk because my car had a spectacular death, had to go car hunting very quickly, which I loathe. Should have my replacement wheels tomorrow so I will be mobile again.
I've been trying to, but the weather station recorded 32 degrees at 3pm today so glad I got out early and did planted up my big hanging basket. I did half an hour stints then an hour to recuperate! I then rewarded myself with very cold pink Pinot Grigio - bliss. Strange that all we had the same idea!!!
Went to pick up a hydrangea in a beautiful and very large terracotta pot. A friend is moving house and can't take it with her. It weighed a ton but fitted perfectly into a gap on my patio Planted out more cosmos and zinnias and did some weeding. Wanted to prick out a load of seedlings and sow more runner and french beans as had total germination failure but OH had taken over my potting shed. Couldn't complain as he's making me a cold frame, at last! No more lugging everything in and out of the greenhouse every night... except by the time he's finished making it nearly everything will have been hardened off and ready to go out
Sounds like everyone been busy in the garden (I count sitting with a glass of something and just pondering as a type of gardening). I have potted-on some tomatoes (they look slightly lame I must say), planted a climbing Hydrangea against an old apple tree (experiment!) and did general weeding and pottering.
Jolly hot here too so I stayed indoors after lunch and worked on the plans for the remaining raised beds and the fruit cage so we can order the doings on Wednesday. This morning was spent clearing the last of the weeds and Spanish bluebells out of the well bed, piled in 100 litre or so of compost and re-planted daffs, Peruvian scillas, Star of Bethlehem and autumn daffs. Need to fins dome alpines that like hot and dry to use as ground cover.
Started weeding another bed when it was cooler and found lots of baby cyclamen. Good.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Spent all my time after work trying to sort out the lawn sprinkler system with the OH.. something is bust, and has been a headache trying to get it working right again.
I did manage to water some freshly planted berry bushes and my son's wildflower area. We planted pollinator seeds a week ago Sunday, and are finally seeing signs of growth. A week and a day is a long wait when you're seven.
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The nepta is so lush from all the rain, have just put down a load of annual seed on the soil areas until I decide if I want more iris around the area or some boggy type plants that may be also able to stand dry!
Any suggestions?
Need to go and buy more pieces of slate and some smaller pebbles to finish it off.
This is my second attempt at this area as changed my mind.
Sounds a good day, Tin pot. We have been watering ourselves this evening with Prosecco and Gerwertztraminer. Glad my bit of gardening was done in the morning, it was 28° in Burgandy this afternoon, but son carried on, hope he isn't sunburnt.
I now have a very "posh" greenhouse. It is draped in white lace curtaining instead of whitewash shading or green plastic shading. Not sure if it will stay there if we have any more gales but at the moment is doing the job. It is called"thinking outside the box".
Pottered today until I could barely walk and it was too hot. Potted on a couple of hostas and a big container. Snipped off die back from sundry plants, did a bit of weeding, unwrapped the ginger lilies etc. etc. am hoping to have a bonfire soon.
The dog is looking very forlorn as we haven't been out for a few days for a beach walk because my car had a spectacular death, had to go car hunting very quickly, which I loathe. Should have my replacement wheels tomorrow so I will be mobile again.
Strange that all we had the same idea!!!
Started weeding another bed when it was cooler and found lots of baby cyclamen. Good.
I did manage to water some freshly planted berry bushes and my son's wildflower area. We planted pollinator seeds a week ago Sunday, and are finally seeing signs of growth. A week and a day is a long wait when you're seven.