@purplerallim , we still had a frost but not like it has been , hopefully the rain will soften the ground , still rock hard first thing Hopefully start getting some gardening done over the next few days
I spoke too soon. It drizzled for most of the day. This morning looks like another glorious day. The surface of the ground is soft but still rock-hard deeper down so no gardening yet.
Spent all morning clearing away the dead stuff around the beds. Three big clumps of verbina bonariensis and just started on the roses. In the greenhouse it looks like most plants may have succumbed to the cold, -4 in there, so have cut back everything and will give them till spring just in case. That may give me the opportunity to change all the summer tubs that have survived for three years, for new arrangements. There is always an up side. 😁
I want to clear some more dead stuff away over the weekend. It needs doing before the bulbs really get going otherwise I won't be able to see them. Hope it's not wet or too cold.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Warmer here so got outside and cleared the leaves off one of the shady beds as I'd noticed the bluebells were trying to grow. Now that I managed to get hold of some cable ties, I used these to tie together two metal trellis panels at right angles. Hope they'll withstand any future storms. I also pruned the nearby rose and tied in the longer canes. So pleased to get outside and get stuck in.
Me too! Almost 6 hours in the garden without being frozen, blown over or rained on Did lots of tidying of old dead stems, borders starting to look almost presentable and nice to see signs of new growth. Very cheering.
I put up 2 new nesting boxes, weeded a couple of containers, found half a dozen turnips from my experimental autumn sowing, and removed the dead twigs from the mulberry bush I moved into the greenhouse. I am concerned about it as to me, it looks as if it has died back to below a graft. I have a nasty suspicion it could be grafted onto a common mulberry stock which will grow into a huge tree. Tidied up where I store empty pots etc and sorted out some pots to transplant my onion seedlings into. I also put slug pellets down around a daffodil. I found a bulb on a beach 5 years ago and planted it. To my daughter's horror. What if it had some horrific disease? It has produced a flower and a new bulb each year so now I have 4 buds growing and a pair of nonflowering leaves. I have to slug pellet it now or something climbs up the flower stems just as the heads are ready to droop down, prior to the flower opening, chewing through 3/4 of the stem so the head almost falls off and of course, does not open. It is, as far as I know, a common daffodil, narsissus pseudo something?, which flowers early down here but I love it. Very plain and simple, pale yellow, common as muck, early harbinger of Spring.
Been doing some emergency moving of snowdrops and Anemone blanda, from around the base of one of the ailing rowan trees due to be felled in a fortnight. It's hard to find the A.blanda in many cases because it's only just beginning to surface. Hopefully I can replant it eventually, around a new (honey fungus resistant) tree...
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Hopefully start getting some gardening done over the next few days
This morning looks like another glorious day. The surface of the ground is soft but still rock-hard deeper down so no gardening yet.
In the greenhouse it looks like most plants may have succumbed to the cold, -4 in there, so have cut back everything and will give them till spring just in case. That may give me the opportunity to change all the summer tubs that have survived for three years, for new arrangements. There is always an up side. 😁
So pleased to get outside and get stuck in.
Tidied up where I store empty pots etc and sorted out some pots to transplant my onion seedlings into.
I also put slug pellets down around a daffodil. I found a bulb on a beach 5 years ago and planted it. To my daughter's horror. What if it had some horrific disease? It has produced a flower and a new bulb each year so now I have 4 buds growing and a pair of nonflowering leaves. I have to slug pellet it now or something climbs up the flower stems just as the heads are ready to droop down, prior to the flower opening, chewing through 3/4 of the stem so the head almost falls off and of course, does not open. It is, as far as I know, a common daffodil, narsissus pseudo something?, which flowers early down here but I love it. Very plain and simple, pale yellow, common as muck, early harbinger of Spring.