I still can't believe I did it but I got sawdust in my other eye yesterday and had to go to A & E in the end as I couldn't wash it all out. I'd put some glasses on to protect my eyes after last week's mishap! Seems ok today thankfully, apart from bleary vision due to the antiseptic cream, so planted some Tete-n-Tete daffs with pale blue violas in a blue pot, some puschkinia in 3 different places to see where they do best and tidied up the orchard area. I also want to plant some more fritillarias, I've got fritillaria meleagris and now have f. uva-vulpis but I think I shouldn't plant them together?
A good afternoon in garden , put some edging bricks in place around a small bed , keep doing a bit , while weather is good Also repaired sun umbrella and put away for this year Off to Allotment tomorrow Need to sort out old bulbs in pot , unfortunately forgotten to cover them with chicken wire so squirrel has had a go at them 🐿 , wil have to decide what to do about them !
Ah it's not just me then @GWRS I have Autumn crocus just showing through, as soon as I moved them into a more Sunny position the squirrel got at them. So cross with myself for not putting the wire on straight away, have done it now but I fear it's too late for some of them.
Hooray, have got all the wallflowers and bellis daises in ! Found a tiny nandina shrub buried in the undergrowth and dry as a bone, so rescued it and potted it up. Still have tulips and some narcissi to pot up. Does anyone know if l should leave the tulips until next month, the same as if l was planting them in the ground ?
Spent the morning at the allotment had an area at the back that seemed to be full of rubble! it was and an old wheel with half a tyre still fitted
I have no idea what the previous owner was at half the allotment seems to be covered in scalping's and pea shingle and now I find wheels just hope the rest of the car is not buried there somewhere
I think he just used it as a dumping ground.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
AnniD, I'm leaving my tulips until November before putting them into pots as I understand they need a cold spell to kill off any "tulip fire disease".
I have spent about an hour picking off dead pittospormum leaves off my gravelled rockery - only to realise that the birch tree nearby will be dropping its leaves any minute now! Potted up some plum coloured pansies, cut down my iris sibirica, took cuttings of my lovely rose "Royal William" and heeled them in and generally pottered.
Lizzie , I leave my tulips until November as well but have to cover with chicken wire to stop Squirrels 🐿 eating them Going to put some spring bulbs in soon , will cover ground with chicken wire as well
Yes, GWRS, I usually do the same but last year I bought a little wooden growhouse and also a cold frame so I put all my bulb pots in there until they shooted, we're plagued with squirrels! Worked a treat and easier than trying to put chicken wire over individual pots.
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after last week's mishap! Seems ok today thankfully, apart from bleary vision due to the antiseptic cream, so planted some Tete-n-Tete daffs with pale blue violas in a blue pot, some puschkinia in 3 different places to see where they do best and tidied up the orchard area. I also want to plant some more fritillarias, I've got fritillaria meleagris and now have f. uva-vulpis but I think I shouldn't plant them together?
I'm really hoping I won't have a third mishap!!
Also repaired sun umbrella and put away for this year
Off to Allotment tomorrow
Need to sort out old bulbs in pot , unfortunately forgotten to cover them with chicken wire so squirrel has had a go at them 🐿 , wil have to decide what to do about them !
I have no idea what the previous owner was at half the allotment seems to be covered in scalping's and pea shingle and now I find wheels just hope the rest of the car is not buried there somewhere
I think he just used it as a dumping ground.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
I have spent about an hour picking off dead pittospormum leaves off my gravelled rockery - only to realise that the birch tree nearby will be dropping its leaves any minute now! Potted up some plum coloured pansies, cut down my iris sibirica, took cuttings of my lovely rose "Royal William" and heeled them in and generally pottered.
Going to put some spring bulbs in soon , will cover ground with chicken wire as well