A really productive day today. The sun has been out all day 😁.
It's my first winter as a keen gardeners this year so a lot of what I have done today is my first go.
Dug up the Dahlia's and put the tubers in storage. Mulched the borders using my compost. I'm really pleased with how it's turned out. Put quite a few tender plants in the GH. Snap Dragon, Marguarite daisies e.c.t. Cut the lawn (hopefully for the last time) Cleaned, swept and cleaned and swept ha and now I need a glass of wine and a soak in the bath.
Burstnest , enjoy the wine , just having a beer after afternoon in garden lots of little jobs done , including a few pots into g/h I have a large bed of dahlia at my allotment which I leave in the ground with a good mulch cover for the winter
Planted up two pots of Primroses and cut back the ivy in the sloping front North facing garden. I should have done more there, but I am losing my energy and inclination as I tend to do at this time of year.
I know many gardeners love the Autumn colours, but I just see it as plants dying off for Winter and that makes me sad.
Thank you @GWRS. It would have made life a lot easier if I could of left mine in the ground but I'm a little worried they would freeze over winter. 😳 I've been really pleased with how well they have done this year. Probably a little too cautious.
Gorgeous in the sun today. Did a bit of cutting back, but I leave most of the perennials over Winter so the can give the insects a home (plus I’d rather untidy than bare). Pulled an old, dying Hebe out, so will have a space for something new - probably ferns or Hostas, as in the shade behind the pond.
Nice sunny day but a bit colder today. Planted all the various left over bulbs from last year into either the ground or in pots, but kept digging up the existing bulbs I'd left in the borders! I obviously must stop buying so many bulbs. Cut down the outdoor tomatoes, emptied out the pots and planted new mix of orange, apricot and peach tulips into blue pots which I hope will look spectacular next year. Bit worried I've put too many (15 per pot) in 30 cm pots but it's too late now. Topped them off with mixed violas and gravel to (hopefully) keep the squirrels off. One more blue pot to plant up with white lily tulips tomorrow.
Lovely in the garden this afternoon. Cold but bright and dry (and still midgey!). It's beginning to look a bit tidier - though the leaves are still falling on the lawn...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Did get all the leaves raked up and one of the long boarders put to bed, do the other one tomorrow weather permitting. Still got loads more job's to do as always.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Been to a couple of garden centres looking at Apple 🍎 trees for allotment , still to visit some more Did buy some sedums thou Almost counts as gardening ?
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It's my first winter as a keen gardeners this year so a lot of what I have done today is my first go.
Dug up the Dahlia's and put the tubers in storage. Mulched the borders using my compost. I'm really pleased with how it's turned out.
Put quite a few tender plants in the GH. Snap Dragon, Marguarite daisies e.c.t.
Cut the lawn (hopefully for the last time)
Cleaned, swept and cleaned and swept ha and now I need a glass of wine and a soak in the bath.
lots of little jobs done , including a few pots into g/h
I have a large bed of dahlia at my allotment which I leave in the ground with a good mulch cover for the winter
I know many gardeners love the Autumn colours, but I just see it as plants dying off for Winter and that makes me sad.
Did buy some sedums thou
Almost counts as gardening ?