I haven't been in the garden for two weeks now. Too many hospital appointments, and now getting ready for Christmas Dinner with visiting daughter this weekend. 🙄
Haven’t done anything for ages and won’t until about Feb now.
I will be doing a picking of greenery on the weekend though, for making festive table decorations and little posies. I usually cut some spruce/conifers, holly (different varieties including a small-leafed one), various evergreen shrub material and hydrangea heads. I find anything with berries don’t hold. I then buy a bunch of carnations or roses and make my arrangements- sometimes adding pine cones, Christmassy bits.
I'm very pleased as I managed over 2 hours in the garden this morning. Potted up one big pot of tulips, two of hyacinths and 3 small terracotta pots of Scilla siberica. The greenhouse is now full to bursting as I have to keep most of my potted bulbs away from the squirrels. The big glazed pot of tulips is outside next to the house wall with a weighted down pane of glass over it, protection against rain and squirrels! I also put more panes of glass over two sunk pots of nerines in a stone trough to keep the rain off.
Everything is so wet and soggy though, hoping for some sunshine tomorrow as I ran out of time and energy to prune the roses.
Well done Lizzie. My tulips are still waiting to be planted. The men came yesterday and pressure-washed the conservatory and outside of the cottage. The selection of equipment they used was impressive. The whole place looks so much better, less rundown and uncared for. I could never done it myself. The box gutter was full of moss and clumps of grass roots etc. No wonder the conservatory has been suffering from dampness, apart from the amount of rain we have had this year.
@Joyce Goldenlily, that sounds like a good job well done. We've got tons of moss being kicked off the roof by the birds which makes an awful mess on the paving no matter how times I brush it up.
I'm pleased I managed to prune all the roses in the front garden and one large HT in the back garden today. A few more still to do but I've broken the back of the job now. Lovely to actually get out in the garden and do something constructive!
What with one thing or another I've done so little of what I wanted to but I made a start today. All those weeds who thought I wasn't looking, ha! think again! I got one bed done today and that manure that has been waiting for the last few weeks goes on tomorrow.
I also finished off removing the rampant Cyperus longus from the bog - planting that was possibly the biggest mistake I've made in a long time, and I thought I'd done my research. An evil job it was, mud everywhere. I just hope I didn't miss too much!
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It is pouring again.
Fingers crossed for tomorrow, I've still got bulbs to plant, roses and apple trees to prune.
Hope to go there Sunday for a Burn 🔥 up
Everything is so wet and soggy though, hoping for some sunshine tomorrow as I ran out of time and energy to prune the roses.
The men came yesterday and pressure-washed the conservatory and outside of the cottage. The selection of equipment they used was impressive. The whole place looks so much better, less rundown and uncared for. I could never done it myself. The box gutter was full of moss and clumps of grass roots etc. No wonder the conservatory has been suffering from dampness, apart from the amount of rain we have had this year.
I'm pleased I managed to prune all the roses in the front garden and one large HT in the back garden today. A few more still to do but I've broken the back of the job now. Lovely to actually get out in the garden and do something constructive!
I also finished off removing the rampant Cyperus longus from the bog - planting that was possibly the biggest mistake I've made in a long time, and I thought I'd done my research. An evil job it was, mud everywhere. I just hope I didn't miss too much!