I know just what you mean Hampshire Hog, hope you've got more oomph tomorrow. I'm quite frustrated I can't do much at the moment as it's so mild, but did manage to do a bit of tidying up yesterday. Hope to do a lot more in the next week or so but it looks like the weather might well turn cold.
I had some boring house and human things to do but did get out into the garden for a time.
Dug up some muscari that were spreading and starting to look messy. Planted in their space some verbascum Phoenician. Also moved some stachys officinalis and some hesperantha.
Had a bucket of bulbs I dug out the front garden. Most were little daff looking things, potted them up, rest were allium sphaerocephalon and I found various spots to bury them where they won't lean over the path and annoy me.
Cleaned the mess under the bird feeders and bathed two feeders.
I was going to move two roses but I didn't really want to and then I thought they might get windrocked in this blustery weather and decided it was best to leave them for now 😼
leaf sweeping for the leaf pile. twigs in the garden waste moved my dogwoods and winter berries around to the front garden to cheer things up a bit...needs a lot more to cheer it up methinks!
That looks quite good Tinpot - perhaps another dogwood to make a bit more of a show?
You could also try some snowdrops perhaps. Hilliers have them in pots, budding already.
Thanks, yes I have one more Dog Wood I can shift in, but I think it needs a bit more of everything to look less ragged.
My snowdrop aren’t flowering yet...but I have got a bunch coming up
I have an aversion to spending money on plants which I can’t quite justify. I’ve just spent £200 on some clothes I kind of need, but £8.99 on one more dogwood seems extravagant. <shrug>
@Tin pot Maybe split the snow drops you have once they have flowered and move some to this corner for next year cost nothing and they soon bulk up.
Still not 100% so no gardening for me today again, but will go to allotment just to check all's OK
The forecast for the next few days is good so I hope to get to the allotment and plant some mixed winter green manure seed on a spare piece of ground as it's so mild.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Sun was out this morning, a bit watery but better than nothing, so decided to do a bit more titivating. Discovered OH had gone off to his mother's taking the garage keys with him, so l couldn't get to tools, kneeler etc. The best laid plans and all that. By the time he got back it had clouded over and my enthusiasm had died, l was so gutted l had to have a piece of Christmas cake to get over it. Oh well, as Scarlett O'Hara said, tomorrow is another day !
I have finally left the house, and got some winter gardening done! Planted a few ferns, popped some hellebore in pots to replace my strawbs as a feature plant for the winter (strawbs are never a particular feature, tbh, so probably one to rethink next year...) and put up some bird boxes. Also found some dwarf raspberries at the garden centre I've been planning to buy for ages - goodbye 2m high canes, staking, and assorted faff! Now feeling very virtuous and drinking wine.
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I had some boring house and human things to do but did get out into the garden for a time.
Dug up some muscari that were spreading and starting to look messy. Planted in their space some verbascum Phoenician. Also moved some stachys officinalis and some hesperantha.
Had a bucket of bulbs I dug out the front garden. Most were little daff looking things, potted them up, rest were allium sphaerocephalon and I found various spots to bury them where they won't lean over the path and annoy me.
Cleaned the mess under the bird feeders and bathed two feeders.
I was going to move two roses but I didn't really want to and then I thought they might get windrocked in this blustery weather and decided it was best to leave them for now 😼
leaf sweeping for the leaf pile.
twigs in the garden waste
moved my dogwoods and winter berries around to the front garden to cheer things up a bit...needs a lot more to cheer it up methinks!
You could also try some snowdrops perhaps. Hilliers have them in pots, budding already.
My snowdrop aren’t flowering yet...but I have got a bunch coming up
I have an aversion to spending money on plants which I can’t quite justify. I’ve just spent £200 on some clothes I kind of need, but £8.99 on one more dogwood seems extravagant. <shrug>
Still not 100% so no gardening for me today again, but will go to allotment just to check all's OK
The forecast for the next few days is good so I hope to get to the allotment and plant some mixed winter green manure seed on a spare piece of ground as it's so mild.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Now feeling very virtuous and drinking wine.