Oh that is awful for you and your neighbours @GWRS, I can only imagine how you are all struggling with the rivers overflowing due to the tremendous amount of rain we are having this Autumn. We are so lucky not to have rivers here, although the ever rising sea levels are a concern to us.
It has been bad around here. Been out visiting today, half the fields are flooded even on higher ground. Facebook has a map of what would happen if the sea level rises in Lincolnshire. @GWRS would be under water, my village would be by an inlet and Boston would be gone. Even Peterborough would be on the coast. 🙄
Been out getting hardy bananas all wrapped up, thankfully there on a raised area so theres no water logging. Everything else is just sulking in the puddley mess that is meant to be a garden. Keep collecting leaves with the mower they all go in the compost and mix in with time (5 large pallet bins take some feeding).
It was cold today so i put on 2 pairs of trousers and 2 tops. Gave some of the roses their last prune and cut down the michaelmas daisies. But it was nice to get into the garden.
I was going to order some more bare root hedging plants, but as the ground is waterlogged I won't bother. I doubt the ground will be workable until next spring. I bought two Pyracantha yesterday languishing in the GC on their sides in smallish pots hoping to get them planted, but I will have to pot them on and keep them until next spring for planting.
Re potted a Poinsettia into bigger pot - I wonder if it will produce flowers again this year. I pruned some new privet hedging, took some soft wood cuttings and fed the birds - rest of my time this morning spent nursing a very small hedgehog until it was taken to rescue centre.
Gurnsey D , unfortunately most Hedgehog 🦔 I see are squashed on road , us to get them in garden , not seen any or there dropping in garden for ages Such a shame
Sorry to hear about the sewage/flooding issue GWRS, what a nightmare.
I had a tiny flooding issue issue last week when a mains pipe sprung a leak in the street but it was only my outbuilding and area of hard standing affected. The water flowed away into the street and I was only left with the debris to sweep up so I was fortunate.
Hope your small hog is okay, GD, that was kind of you to look after it.
Today I planted a bareroot rose that arrived yesterday. The far end of the shade border is getting finished one muddy step at a time. Planted some alliums, Purple Sensation, that I moved from elsewhere in the garden. Planted a piece of persicaria where the pond meets the lawn edge. I let the grass grow long and ratty due having daffs growing there and then because of the froglets but want a more attractive solution. Hoping the persicaria will not be bothered by the daffs and then hide the whole mess later in the year whilst providing cover for critters.
OH and kind neighbour took 6 x 1 ton bags of green garden waste to the recycling yard this morning - it will be heated, turned and eventually will end up as re-conditioned soil. They also collected a large scoop of wood chip to spread on our flower beds and other growing areas - we try to spread a covering every year or two to help suppress and cut down on weeding, and although the slugs and snails don't like it, seed dropping from plants don't do well either.
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Facebook has a map of what would happen if the sea level rises in Lincolnshire. @GWRS would be under water, my village would be by an inlet and Boston would be gone. Even Peterborough would be on the coast. 🙄
Such a shame
Sorry to hear about the sewage/flooding issue GWRS, what a nightmare.
I had a tiny flooding issue issue last week when a mains pipe sprung a leak in the street but it was only my outbuilding and area of hard standing affected. The water flowed away into the street and I was only left with the debris to sweep up so I was fortunate.
Hope your small hog is okay, GD, that was kind of you to look after it.
Today I planted a bareroot rose that arrived yesterday. The far end of the shade border is getting finished one muddy step at a time. Planted some alliums, Purple Sensation, that I moved from elsewhere in the garden. Planted a piece of persicaria where the pond meets the lawn edge. I let the grass grow long and ratty due having daffs growing there and then because of the froglets but want a more attractive solution. Hoping the persicaria will not be bothered by the daffs and then hide the whole mess later in the year whilst providing cover for critters.