I painted the top of my arbour while it's still laid flat on the lawn, planted my new rose 'Chandos Beauty' and dug out six more box stumps - a very slow process on my hands and knees. It hurts my hands after a bit as well.
They look like 3 separate plants to me @puschkinia, but l wouldn't be tempted to try and split them unless they fall into 3 separate sections when you take them out of the pot. You might want to keep an eye on it, "Nachtvlinder" is a lovely variety but it can have a habit of "running", and popping up a distance away from the original. Easy to pull up the rooted sections and pot them on though
I have planted out a Nandina from a pot into the ground, pruned 3 clematis and fed the roses. The female blackbird that comes to the backdoor for suet pellets thought that's what l was scattering and was most put out. I had to stop work and go and get some for her ! Very Spring like today.
Coppiced an overgrown Cornus this morning. Then pruned back a long fuchsia hedge in the front garden - I was going to wait until March but it was already sprouting lots of new leaves. I started off nicely pruning one stem at a time just above a bud, then decided that was way too slow and just took the shears to it. I hope it's OK.
Sowed some Cosmos this afternoon, cleared some bramble (ouch) and all the 8-foot high nettle stalks from my nettle patch, then shredded the fuchsia cuttings for the compost heap.
They look like 3 separate plants to me @puschkinia, but l wouldn't be tempted to try and split them unless they fall into 3 separate sections when you take them out of the pot. You might want to keep an eye on it, "Nachtvlinder" is a lovely variety but it can have a habit of "running", and popping up a distance away from the original. Easy to pull up the rooted sections and pot them on though
I have planted out a Nandina from a pot into the ground, pruned 3 clematis and fed the roses. The female blackbird that comes to the backdoor for suet pellets thought that's what l was scattering and was most put out. I had to stop work and go and get some for her ! Very Spring like today.
Thanks, I took them out the pot and tbf the root system was great. There was definitely no separating them, so I just planted them out.
Thanks for the heads up Tbh I'd be perfectly happy with all the sunny bit of my garden taken up with salvias and all the shadier bit with viburnums so if they spread it's fine by me!
Did a bunch of weeding at the front garden today, planted the salvia, planted some small pots with wildflowers, sowed some radishes, and gave my autumn sown sweet peas some better support. They're getting stupidly tall now - soon they won't fit in my cold frame. Also found ridiculous roots - or maybe rhizomes - in my beds that seem to be attached to grass that's popping up everywhere, which was a bit concerning. Little worried that I don't have a lawn, but a giant couch-grass patch 😂
Such a fun few hours in the garden! Can't wait for my first spring with a garden to properly arrive So many of my plants are starting to push out their leaves, having looked dead over winter. Can't describe my excitement that I've managed to not kill anything yet haha
I gave the grass its first trim on Saturday, did a bit of cutting back, weeding and mulching, and then turned the compost from the full bin to the empty one to make room to start the next batch. Sunday I was knackered (out of condition!) so I just planted out the dwarf daffs and ruby giant crocuses that I'd potted up last autumn. Green bin collections restart this week - about time, it's been full for weeks of stuff that I don't compost.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Hubby cut the grass,did quite a bit of tidying up. I got the JI seed compost in to warm up. Finally sowed the tomatoes and sweet peppers,late for me, having a job to get motivated at the moment. Here,in East Sussex,we get garden waste collection all year,and before anyone has a go (they did on another site,) yes,I have 3 compost bins.
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I have planted out a Nandina from a pot into the ground, pruned 3 clematis and fed the roses. The female blackbird that comes to the backdoor for suet pellets thought that's what l was scattering and was most put out. I had to stop work and go and get some for her !
Very Spring like today.
Mowed the lawn, early for a first cut perhaps but the right time I think this year.
Sowed some Cosmos this afternoon, cleared some bramble (ouch) and all the 8-foot high nettle stalks from my nettle patch, then shredded the fuchsia cuttings for the compost heap.
Thanks for the heads up
Did a bunch of weeding at the front garden today, planted the salvia, planted some small pots with wildflowers, sowed some radishes, and gave my autumn sown sweet peas some better support. They're getting stupidly tall now - soon they won't fit in my cold frame. Also found ridiculous roots - or maybe rhizomes - in my beds that seem to be attached to grass that's popping up everywhere, which was a bit concerning. Little worried that I don't have a lawn, but a giant couch-grass patch 😂
Such a fun few hours in the garden! Can't wait for my first spring with a garden to properly arrive
Saw the photo you posted. Did it do much damage to your house and/or your car?
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful