Dug up and split several clumps of Carex coman "Curls" and repotted them. Planted half a dozen pots of assorted perennials that I'd kept since June waiting for the right conditions for planting. Might dig one back up again as I think I've put it in the wrong place!
We did odd jobs like staking young trees, clearing so overgrown agapanthus, but most importantly the long awaited contractors came to cut, clear sow and roll the wild flower seed in our field. A mix of perennial and annual flowers for next and the following years - so excited to see this part of the project happen within 4 hours. Now we just need the rain and plenty of it.
Today we have planted an acer, watched the amazing tree fellers at work on an overgrown maple in the field, they did a great job, potted up more spring bulbs and dead headed around the garden.
Emptied hanging baskets of flowers and tomatoes and also a couple of pots. Sad, but it needed doing. Checked over cuttings etc and did a bit of weeding and planted hardy geranium "Mayflower". Nice "pottering" day in the sunshine.
Dunked my hanging basket in a bucket of water but I think it's had it - my fault, I keep forgetting to water it. Pulled up some old bedding plants and planted out an unusual campanula "Pink Octopus" which I bought from Barnsdale Gardens back in June. Have erected a copper wire "fence" round it in case the local snails like it. Picked a lot of pears off the tree which had brown rot, doesn't look such a good crop this year, nor our apples. BUT our sweetcorn is gorgeous. First time growing it and cooked the first cob last Tuesday.
Did a hour of weeding, found a dead hedgehog on the lawn. Looked like it had been dead a long time, but just got there so i buried it.
Been picking the cooking apples, but a lot of them had a grub in. Didn't get round to putting grease bands on the trees and pull up all the vegetation from around them.
No garden today woke up this morning with a very swollen knee and very painful and not able to bend it not sure what's going on, been on painkillers all day not making much difference
Has given me the chance to sit down and plan thing's for next year in the garden.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
Having a lazy, social day today - the only thing we have done is a huge amount of watering first thing and moved the hedgehog house 180 degrees so the door is no longer facing south, instead it is facing a wall, so the entrance isn't so exposed. We lined the floor with hay - we live in hope that one of the visiting hogs will use the house now.
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Been picking the cooking apples, but a lot of them had a grub in. Didn't get round to putting grease bands on the trees and pull up all the vegetation from around them.
Has given me the chance to sit down and plan thing's for next year in the garden.
Hacked off some lengthy rose limbs from two plants that seem to have done nothing all year.
Had a whirl with the new cordless trimmer, swallowed deep and attacked my beloved cotoneaster: