So far I've planted out 4 Hellebore Niger, done some weeding and relocated pansies to the garden because I wanted their pink pot to sow some dwarf sweet peas my daughter gave me for Xmas. Came in one of those stupid little tin buckets with no drainage holes and said to grow them indoors - I don't think so, do you? Never heard of dwarf sweet peas so that will be interesting. I also scattered 5 pkts of various annual flower seeds on the outside verge at the top of the cul de sac, to brighten it up a bit. My neighbour has already planted some primulas, a foxgloves and a poppy there. She can see it but I can't unless I walk up. Just finished lunch so better get cracking again. It's warm and sunny.
Finally finished weeding & mulching the beds, they are not that big it just seems to have taken me a long time. Planted two new clematis, then rain stopped play!
Collected some of my windfall daffs, the ones that were still ok and vased them. One group is completely trashed but I suspect animal rather than weather.
Chopped the garden down, except for a few things that might need the protection. I thought everything was up now, but not so.
I think my strawberry tree is dead and the oak leaved hydrangea wishes it was. I've already replaced them in my head, but will give the hydrangea a chance, a few things struggled in that bed last summer, established things.
Potted up two meadowsweet seedlings, they can go to the allotment, and found a limp cuckoo flower in the border looking sadly at the pond. Found a little nook for it in the shallows.
Yes, what a smart looking shed and now you can sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labour purplerallim!
I haven't done much in the garden today - a relaxing day for me, but OH and neighbour just may have cured our leaking stream - fingers crossed and if so that is a major gardening problem to tick off the list.
After lunch report! I dug up some nepeta, tipped some J.I No.3 in and planted a Coronilla valentina, a pale lemon one with grey/blue leaves so hope it survives. Dug up lots of wandering Jap. anemones (they are a pain), weeded that patch and tied in a 'New Dawn' rose.
Allotment: Dug over and prepared seed bed sowed Beetroot and Carrots, then proceeded to dig over more and removed stones and rubbish 🙄 will it ever end.
Tidied up the Melianthus Major's, also fed my roses did a bit of hoeinggeneral potter around and visit to site shop to pay club membership cup of tea and catch up on the gossip.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
It's supposed to rain here today so I've been lugging compost, collecting pots and moving trays of seedlings around ready to pot them up in the conservatory. Just have to visit mum before getting started.
Very misty first thing then heavy rain which cleared the mist not cold but also not warm. Went out and bought some Epsom salts for my plants as I'm all but out of it and one or two other gardening bit's.
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Good job we got that finished and front and back lawns cut as now raining.
Collected some of my windfall daffs, the ones that were still ok and vased them. One group is completely trashed but I suspect animal rather than weather.
Chopped the garden down, except for a few things that might need the protection. I thought everything was up now, but not so.
I think my strawberry tree is dead and the oak leaved hydrangea wishes it was. I've already replaced them in my head, but will give the hydrangea a chance, a few things struggled in that bed last summer, established things.
Potted up two meadowsweet seedlings, they can go to the allotment, and found a limp cuckoo flower in the border looking sadly at the pond. Found a little nook for it in the shallows.
Tidied up the Melianthus Major's, also fed my roses did a bit of hoeing general potter around and visit to site shop to pay club membership cup of tea and catch up on the gossip.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog