Cleared one of the bulb areas from what are not bulbs. Found snowdrops growths hidden underneath fallen leaves. So many and good to see them. Cut back old flowering stems of so many plants and this has made the garden look a bit neater...but then we do have a wild garden. All this today while a song thrush continued singing all day long.
Did some gardening for the first time this year. Cut back lots of dead growth, removed some weeds and leaf litter. Still lots to do but decided to start slowly rather than not be able to walk tomorrow. I've been sorting out seeds tonight and have ordered some plants to be delivered in March/April. Uncovered lots of snowdrops/crocus and the daffs and tulips are about 6in tall. Hopefully I'll get more done tomorrow.
Mulched around the new rose I planted yesterday, quite thickly with bark as I want to minimise weeding this year. I also weeded part of the front drive.
Another day at allotment , although I could do a few jobs in the garden , the allotment was more pressing I wonder if we are going to have a dry winter ?
First time out on the terrace for a while (January was complicated!), did some much needed tidying up and planted up a few primulas I bought yesterday to give myself a boost. Actually went to the garden center looking for a moss pole for my neglected indoor plant, but of course came away with outdoor stuff but not what I went for! Oh well I’ll just have to visit a different one next week :-)
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
I pruned the tops off a Euronymus hedge with a long handled pruner, rather laboriously and after lunch I also pruned a Flower Carpet rose which wants to climb not carpet! Can only do short stints at the moment as I'm still battling an awful cold. Lovely to be out in brilliant sunshine.
I finished digging new bed 2, weeded and stones removed. I'm not sure I can face the final bed I had been thinking of for this year, but tomorrow have to prepare the holes for the new apple trees. Dig, dig, dig.
We cleared one area of the veg section of weeds and put home made compost on ready to dig in. It has been so cold and the ground frozen for weeks we couldn't do it before.
Then we have started on the next veg area to do the same. So cold this morning that I only managed half an hour and had to come in. Went back again after 11.30 and much better.
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I wonder if we are going to have a dry winter ?
and after lunch I also pruned a Flower Carpet rose which wants to climb not carpet!
Can only do short stints at the moment as I'm still battling an awful cold. Lovely to be out in brilliant sunshine.