I went out and turned my seed trays around in the G/H so they are getting a new angle of light, other than that, wet, windy and cold, rain is so persistent it is getting very annoying and frustrating. Not as cold as the UK though, although minus 1 or 2 threatened for tomorrow evening.
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I put my pelargoniums in the blowover (is that what it's called?). They'd been sitting against a wall and seemed happy enough, which I had hitherto been very smug about, but I felt I was probably pushing my luck by leaving them out to be snowed on.
I also took slightly untimely delivery of a clematis Avalanche from T&M. I usually order my clematis from Taylors or Thorncroft but there was a free delivery weekend with T&M and I'd had some teeny tiny magnolias in the basket for months, so I just ordered it all. All credit to T&M though, whenever I order from them I get a slight feeling of dread but I think I must just have been very lucky (or I have lowered my standards considerably). The clematis is beautifully healthy, green and leafy and flowering already! Might have to pot it on soon if the weather doesn't warm up slightly...
I saw a special offer from Woolmans for 30 garden ready erigeron karvianskus 'Stallone' so succumbed to temptation but will split the order with my daughter later.
I’m debating whether to brave the weather to plant some “in the green” snowdrops which arrived yesterday. Can’t decide whether they are best left sealed in the box for a few days until the weather improves (slightly) or should be planted straight away?
(Only a dusting of sun here but temps are below zero until Sunday)
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Do you have an empty pot and some compost, @Butterfly66? I think I'd unwrap your snowdrops and "heel them in" in pots of compost if you can - and leave them outside in a sheltered spot. They might start to go mouldy in the box...
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Its about - 3% so i felt it was better to catch up with some reading and wait until it was a bit warmer........coward Newboy.
I also took slightly untimely delivery of a clematis Avalanche from T&M. I usually order my clematis from Taylors or Thorncroft but there was a free delivery weekend with T&M and I'd had some teeny tiny magnolias in the basket for months, so I just ordered it all. All credit to T&M though, whenever I order from them I get a slight feeling of dread but I think I must just have been very lucky (or I have lowered my standards considerably). The clematis is beautifully healthy, green and leafy and flowering already! Might have to pot it on soon if the weather doesn't warm up slightly...
(Only a dusting of sun here but temps are below zero until Sunday)
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham