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Anyone done any gardening today? (4)

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  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Tin pot said:
    Lizzie27 said:
    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>
    Ordered five dogwood sanguinea and two more blueberry bushes :)
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    Finally pricked out fifty odd Cyclamen coum seedlings.
    Spent ten minutes in the blow away looking for a bumble bee I could hear.
    Pantomime season is still here.
    Bumble bee was on clematis flowers just behind blow away....
    She's behind you!
    @Tinpot. Totally justifiable :D


  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Just catching up on this thread. I am impressed how many of you have been out there and at it over the last month. I tend not to do much December to Feb but I am quite missing it. I am going to look into acquiring a green house I think, as that will expand my options for days when it’s raining or I’m not feeling very energetic. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • @AuntyRach I can definitely recommend you to get a greenhouse. I did not get my first proper one (had those little poly things before) until about 15 years ago. So wish I had got one before, I  even have a second one on the Allotment now.
    AB Still learning

  • Today I split my monstrous tree peony into three new more manageable sized plants, then it was onto bramble watch....luckily I was given some reinforced gloves to grapple with this really annoying plant that grows all over the show!
  • Spent four hours at the allotment today, planted Comfrey and a few Buddleia on the boundary between the path and rough ground / badger sets.

    I still have lots more things to plant Crataegus Monogyna (Hawthorn) Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn), Corylus Avellana (Hazel), Cornus Sanguinea(Common Dogwood), Acer Campestre (Field Maple) and Malus Sylvestris(Crab Apple) should make a good hedge and keep the brambles and stinging nettles at bay.

    A permanent feature like this would not be normally allowed on an allotment site but I negotiated with the council and as part of the deal I have agreed to manage the rough ground and brambles along with the hedge.

    This all suites me fine I love nature and the site attracts lots of Butterfly's, Moths Grasshopper's, C
    rickets, slow worms, lizards and I'm sure lots of other animals.

    "You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
  • Rose121Rose121 Posts: 132
    Brambles are such a pain batwood! I'm still finding new ones springing up after a 3 year crusade. 

    I went out to trim a hedge (which was wider at top than bottom - no longer the case!) then just trundled on, moved a compost heap and did some mortaring to finish the base of a patio. Love it when one job just rolls into the next, and you end up having done much more than planned! 

    Also, I now ache. But it's a good gardening ache, so I'm happy.
  • Sound's like a perfect day Rose such a sense of achievement when you get a day like that.

    "You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
  • Rose121Rose121 Posts: 132
    Agreed. You really feel you've achieved something.
    Of course, the shed I tidies yesterday is now a tip again, but that means there's something to do tomorrow...
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