Just done a couple of hours before rain set in and it felt wonderful Spread some garden compost around my bamboos & new Thujas, tidied up my old Astrantia stems and pruned the two Clematis viticella either side of our arch. Was about to start shredding the latter and decided (for the first time) to rescue some of the healthy-looking sprouts and take some cuttings. Don't really know what I'm going to do with them if they take, or for that matter all the perennial Helianthus rhizomes I potted up earlier on
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I tidied up the flower bed under the wisteria, picked off all the dead leaves and pulled off the dead stems/leaves from the bearded irises and crocosmia. Really enjoyed being outside and even we had some sunshine.
Not exactly gardening but I sorted out some seeds to sow, wrote out the plant labels and did my daily bulb check. I get so damned excited when I see a bulb poking through - so easily pleased at times. I was about to plant some seeds but football (listening not playing) got in the way
There's always tomorrow.
Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
Hello , lovely sunny day but cold , cut sedums down , just soggy stems , managed to ram them in garden bin with blackberries stems , bin definitely full now
As the sunshine was streaming through the front windows by 12.30 pm , we assumed it had warmed up a bit - wrong! We did a hasty bit of brushing up moss from the paving round the house then hightailed it back into the house.
I sowed some seeds, potted on some prairie coneflower seedlings from coldframe, potted up some more penstemons that had rooted in water and deadheaded lavender. Sorted out some veg seeds for sowing soon.
Martina Franca, Puglia, southern Italy Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
Took advantage of the dry sunny weather and pottered about whilst being serenaded by a sparrow in a nearby tree. Tided up dead leaves from the crowns of plants, cut back snowberry (what a mistake that was), and sat on the bench for a while. The 2 sarcacocca at opposite ends end of the garden are really pumping out the perfume and a few bees were taking advantage of the tiny flowers. It's still a way off, but there's that faint suggestion of Spring in the air .
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I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
There's always tomorrow.
Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
Lots of rain tonight , a lot of water in stream
Love living in Italy but a Loiner at heart
It's still a way off, but there's that faint suggestion of Spring in the air