Finally getting to grips with part of our wild flower/plant bank. Dug out some of the horrible grass that had got thick and not very nice to look at. I am going to sprinkle poppy and yellow rattle seed on the area later this week depending on the weather.
Did half an hour of pottering and pruning back some branches of a large Ceanothus, which had dead foliage. Still fighting off a flu-like virus, so this has rendered me back to the sofa now!
I got quite a bit done today.Chopped down a few more non flowering Cosmos,and yanked out the roots. Moved a Fern to the base of a tree stump,a very big rooted boy! Moved a young Photina to its permanent position. Replanted Saxifrage and Houseleeks that the Cosmos had covered! And found some of the primroses were in flower....A yellow and a pink one! I'm clapped out,but happy!!
PS I also picked 5lbs of Blackberries in the lane,but still plenty left for the birds.
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I went down to the school garden I look after as haven't been down for a while due to the hot weather. Very overgrown and gone over looking apart from masses of verbena bonarisensis everywhere - strange as I lost most of mine over the winter and I'm only down the road. Why is it that brambles can survive any kind of weather? So I cut most of those down and deadheaded as much as I could. I was pleased to see however that the two fuchsias "Hawkeshead" I planted 3 years ago are doing well despite the hot conditions. I think I'll have to do a few more afternoons down there before the children go back.
Shopping at Wyevale, Homebase and B&Q; planter, dogwood, gloves, hedge trimmer, six Rudbeckia, two baby cypress goldcrest, garden furniture cleaner and paint, Sika patio grout.
Patio repairs with some sanding then the brush in grout Tidied up lawn furniture and kids toys Mowed lawn, filled compost heap Tried to repair puncture on trailer Rained off, felt ill, had nap Moved cherry tree planter Watered hydrangea with rainwater Planted dogwood our front in new planter with a mix of bought compost, my own, soil and topped with my wood chip mulch Planted two rudbeckia our front
Still a lot to do, I’ve been planning tomorrow’s bbq for six months and with torrential rain scheduled *only* for our bbq my desire to keep prepping the garden has waned severely.
Oh heck,@Tin Pot, that was an awful lot of work,think you should pace yourself,if I go on for too long I have a job to get back up the steps to the back door! Heart thudding,knees buckling! Hubby is always telling me off!
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Isn't it always the way Tinpot! I sympathise with you, we'd been planning our Open days like you for 6 months and what did it do on the Saturday? Rained but fortunately only for an hour or so. Hope you will be luckier, good luck with the BBQ (even if it has to be in the kitchen!).
Went to a very interesting garden open for the NGS it was just the other side of Harefield so only 1/2 hour away. Did some dead heading & general pottering when we came home.
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Moved a Fern to the base of a tree stump,a very big rooted boy!
Moved a young Photina to its permanent position.
Replanted Saxifrage and Houseleeks that the Cosmos had covered!
And found some of the primroses were in flower....A yellow and a pink one!
I'm clapped out,but happy!!
PS I also picked 5lbs of Blackberries in the lane,but still plenty left for the birds.
Patio repairs with some sanding then the brush in grout
Tidied up lawn furniture and kids toys
Mowed lawn, filled compost heap
Tried to repair puncture on trailer
Rained off, felt ill, had nap
Moved cherry tree planter
Watered hydrangea with rainwater
Planted dogwood our front in new planter with a mix of bought compost, my own, soil and topped with my wood chip mulch
Planted two rudbeckia our front
Still a lot to do, I’ve been planning tomorrow’s bbq for six months and with torrential rain scheduled *only* for our bbq my desire to keep prepping the garden has waned severely.
Oh well...