Hampshire Hog that shed looks really good and your patio slabs area looks great too are you allowed cement on your site or are they just layed with sand and close to each other, what are the plants in the big pots?
Been busy in garden finally started seed sowing amazing
- Tomatoes, celery celeriac, beetroot, cucamelon, lettuce,
flowers - marigolds, delphinium sky blue, free dahlias from GW mag
mesembryanthemum - to sell at plant fayre in may - my grow house has started to get something
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Spent 4 hours weeding, planting and digging in flower borders today, lots more to do. The veg are all growing nicely in my new raised beds. Baby plants all potted up in greenhouse, except for the recently sown ones.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
The slabs are laid on a two inch hard packed sharp sand base with a ground support membrane below that, they are close with about 4mm between this was filled with silver sand and cement mix 50 /50 brushed in just to hold them in place with timber edges on three sides and scalping's on the other. It makes a area for us to sit and is ideal for my wife and her wheelchair.
The plants are Melianthus major (honey bush) grown from seed three years ago and have flowered once last year in all that sun a semi tender perennial, here on the south coast semi evergreen but can die right back and need some winter protection further north.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
Pulled out hands full of bind weed coming from next door, never ending job. Planted potatoes, even though it's still cold here the soil has been covered and they are staying covered a while yet. Put new thermometer in greenhouse. Checked on Wisteria as it seems late, but can see buds now forming, panic over. Queen of the night tulips already in flower, bit early as last year were still in bloom till late May.🤔 Seed out for birds.
Just potted up white and pink Cosmos. Still have more seedlings but need a couple more trays to put them on. When will I learn that I only have a relatively small garden. Never, I suspect.
I planted a lungwort in the wild flower patch, 2 alliums in the border and a few allium neopolitanum corms too. Cleared some blanket weed from the pond and deadheaded some daffs and grape hyacinths.
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The slabs are laid on a two inch hard packed sharp sand base with a ground support membrane below that, they are close with about 4mm between this was filled with silver sand and cement mix 50 /50 brushed in just to hold them in place with timber edges on three sides and scalping's on the other.
It makes a area for us to sit and is ideal for my wife and her wheelchair.
The plants are Melianthus major (honey bush) grown from seed three years ago and have flowered once last year in all that sun a semi tender perennial, here on the south coast semi evergreen but can die right back and need some winter protection further north.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog