I finally bit the bullet and cut down my clematis on the obelisk which was blown over during the storms. The clematis was in full flower so it was heartbreaking to cut it back. Weeded around the base of the obelisk ready to put it back when my son in law has straightened the bent foot for me.
I pulled some leeks, before they begin shooting, and made some leek, celeriac, potato and sweetcorn soup. Not actual gardening but the end result of last year's efforts.
A glorious day today so hopefully another sortie in the garden.
Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet @Joyce Goldenlily. I had to do much the same thing recently trying to dig out a too large cyclamen I'd foolishly planted in the same pot as a clematis on an obelisk. I think both have survived! Mine wasn't in flower though, I don't think I could have cut it down otherwise.
I finished manuring all my roses (24?) and clematis (9) today, a good job done after the heavy rain we had yesterday.
In 1980 on my honeymoon, I bought a contorted hazel. It moved house twice. It now shades the greenhouse. That husband is long gone. Now the hazel is too. Its down to three feet, with the pruning saw, it's going to need a bigger saw for the base. More light for the greenhouse. I'm going to be busy with the shredder this weekend.
I planted a purple contorted hazel in the school memorial garden when I was looking after it. I often wonder how well it's doing. Can't see it over the top of the fence yet!
I've had another busy day weeding my main front garden border. Dug up lots more allium 'Christophii' and gave them away. I do like them but they don't arf multiply! OH got the mattock and chopped out an old iris sibirica for me - huge clump, absolutely solid. I really must remember to divide my perennials every 3-4 years.
Sowed my first seeds of the year, Sweet peppers, Basil, Echinacea,Heleniums, Gaura, Verbena Bon. and Osteospermum. Sorted through the sempervivums and tided them up. Lifted a clump of pulmonaria "Blue Ensign" that was hiding under the box hedge. Divided it and planted some and potted up the rest. Watered the pots. Lovely Spring day
Came home and placed those and the rest I’ve bought recently in the bed (still in their pots) to see if I like where they’re going. I’ll keep looking at it from the dining room and kitchen this afternoon and tomorrow morning.
I may move a few around after a good ponder.
Tomorrow morning and afternoon will be planting them.
Also need to cut the grass and move a couple of perennials that I’ve planted too close together last year.
I had to move a bunch of stuff including the plastic greenhouses a while back to make room for some scaffolding. The last two days I've finally started putting everything back together. There are still pots with different stages of dead plants, things I tried to propagate, and things that survived the winter all over the patio. I did some weeding and other tidying plus finding places to put miscellaneous impulse buy plants. Things are looking better but still a bit messy.
I've been trying to encourage the moss to grow as a lawn alternative but some of the types that have started colonising it are too tiny to do much good. In my head I imagine deep spongy moss like I saw in the woods on a trip to Blair Atholl, but the stuff that has found its way to my garden so far isn't nearly so nice. I also have a pot of vinca that I'm wondering about using as ground cover instead.
Fed my fuchsia hedge with bfb, and underplanted it with about 50 English bluebells in-the-green that someone had given my wife as a gift. It's an isolated bed in the front garden so I'm not worried about them being "invasive".
In the back garden I planted some bare root perennials that arrived this week, into a shady corner where I'd dug a new bed - 12 astrantia major and 36 lily of the valley.
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Weeded around the base of the obelisk ready to put it back when my son in law has straightened the bent foot for me.
I pulled some leeks, before they begin shooting, and made some leek, celeriac, potato and sweetcorn soup. Not actual gardening but the end result of last year's efforts.
A glorious day today so hopefully another sortie in the garden.
I finished manuring all my roses (24?) and clematis (9) today, a good job done after the heavy rain we had yesterday.
I've had another busy day weeding my main front garden border. Dug up lots more allium 'Christophii' and gave them away. I do like them but they don't arf multiply!
OH got the mattock and chopped out an old iris sibirica for me - huge clump, absolutely solid. I really must remember to divide my perennials every 3-4 years.
Sorted through the sempervivums and tided them up. Lifted a clump of pulmonaria "Blue Ensign" that was hiding under the box hedge. Divided it and planted some and potted up the rest.
Watered the pots.
Lovely Spring day
I've been trying to encourage the moss to grow as a lawn alternative but some of the types that have started colonising it are too tiny to do much good. In my head I imagine deep spongy moss like I saw in the woods on a trip to Blair Atholl, but the stuff that has found its way to my garden so far isn't nearly so nice. I also have a pot of vinca that I'm wondering about using as ground cover instead.
In the back garden I planted some bare root perennials that arrived this week, into a shady corner where I'd dug a new bed - 12 astrantia major and 36 lily of the valley.