Spent the afternoon pulling Hostas, they now look as they did in the Spring, lovely fresh growth, nice variegated leaves and not a snail chew in sight. 😎
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Spent the afternoon pulling Hostas, they now look as they did in the Spring, lovely fresh growth, nice variegated leaves and not a snail chew in sight. 😎
Dug out some paonies, beautiful but no good for wild life. Am seriously tired but happy. Manured the spaces but now rain and more rain stopped play and so many flowers hammered. Oh dear.
Dug out some paonies, beautiful but no good for wild life. Am seriously tired but happy. Manured the spaces but now rain and more rain stopped play and so many flowers hammered. Oh dear.
I have a two and a half year old wisteria, and one year after I bought it, I had a huge umbrella frame made for it, as I wanted to grow it as a standard. I live in Cyprus and the men who made it, made it much higher than I wanted, 3 m at the highest point and 2.5m at the lowest, not counting the central pole of course. It is flourishing, metre+ long tendrils flying all over the place, and as the ground beneath is not very even, I had to devise a way to tidy it up and trim it back judiciously. I found two wooden broom handles and screwed a square hook to one end of each, at right angles to the stick, one hook facing down and one facing up. Thus I was able to catch the tendrils with one and wind them round the frame with the other. It worked like a dream. I am very proud of myself. It now looks presentable and tidy.
I have a two and a half year old wisteria, and one year after I bought it, I had a huge umbrella frame made for it, as I wanted to grow it as a standard. I live in Cyprus and the men who made it, made it much higher than I wanted, 3 m at the highest point and 2.5m at the lowest, not counting the central pole of course. It is flourishing, metre+ long tendrils flying all over the place, and as the ground beneath is not very even, I had to devise a way to tidy it up and trim it back judiciously. I found two wooden broom handles and screwed a square hook to one end of each, at right angles to the stick, one hook facing down and one facing up. Thus I was able to catch the tendrils with one and wind them round the frame with the other. It worked like a dream. I am very proud of myself. It now looks presentable and tidy.
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