Yesterday I washed down my greenhouse, potted Begonias, planted Tomato and Castor bean seed, then biked down to the river to feed Chickadees, Nuthatches and Woodpeckers some peanuts.
Blowing a glow from the frozen wastes of Russia today but wind does not stop play 😃 . Planted 2 clematis (valentine's pressies for Mrs Wilderbeast), a dozen primulas, 2 hellebore Anna's red (mother's Day pressies) . Dug up 3 huge clumps of heucheras, split them and buried much deeper. The heucheras are a favourite but they do take a lot of care to dig up and rebury every year.
Did some more pruning today, mostly heucheras. Regrettably disturbed a few sleeping ladybirds but did my best to find them somewhere else to shelter. I did try putting them on the ladybird hotel but they didn't seem wildly interested. One did venture into one of the holes but was quickly pounced on by a spider that had taken up residence there 😮 Fortunately I was quick enough to free it and I rehomed it in a fern that I won't be pruning for another month. I know spiders have to eat but I've just got my first rose and I'm going to need ladybirds!
Also managed to break a plastic handfork which wasn't a great surprise but definitely inconvenient.
@GWRS was that indoor or outdoor? I didn't have a problem getting the basil to germinate, just didn't get much return for the effort. Maybe I got the growing medium wrong, will try again!!
After dropping flowers etc to mum I got back into the garden and totally rearranged the veg section. Going for a much more cottage feel with lots of perennials growing in amongst each other rather than just rigid raised beds (though I have kept a couple of those too!!)
@februarysgirl , lucky ladybird , they seems to be a lot of them about
I'd have felt awful if the spider had been successful. First of all it gets disturbed from its sleep and then almost gets eaten. I've seen a lot more about than I was expecting.
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Also managed to break a plastic handfork which wasn't a great surprise but definitely inconvenient.
After dropping flowers etc to mum I got back into the garden and totally rearranged the veg section. Going for a much more cottage feel with lots of perennials growing in amongst each other rather than just rigid raised beds (though I have kept a couple of those too!!)
Dug up a lot of turf
Got two hydrangea and three blueberries in the ground
I'd really hoped they would have snuggled up in the ladybird hotel but something else took over. Might have to try something like old tights!