Good morning all No news is usually good news @Pat E Another beautiful morning ... OH forgot to open the big sliding 'wall' in the studio when he made the morning cuppas, and it's like an oven in there ... too hot to work in until it cools down, so I'll do a little plumping of cushions in here then do the end of the month accounts a few days early ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all. Had a good afternoon in the garden yesterday. Am puzzling what to do about an area of a border where my plants just don't do well, due to the rather large box, tree-like cordyline and now a tree pittosporum taking all of the moisture from my already very dry sandy soil. I had an echinops there which was taking up pretty much the whole space - but doing well - so last year I dug it up and divided it. The replanted bits are doing their best but there are gaps. Geranium Rozanne, which other people find too vigorous, is still puny a year after planting. I've put another geranium in now as well - Orion which will hopefully sprawl about. Last year I planted some chasmanthe bulbs there which didn't appear. Dug one of those up yesterday - there are a few roots on it and a tiny shoot, so I planted it again. You never know. Today I shall be wrestling with the alkanet in the border by my kitchen door - in which there are loads of hemerocallis blooming beautifully. They need a better setting.
If nothing else grows there @didyw I can let you have some pieces of Geranium macrorrhizum 'Bevan's Beauty' ... the one with pink flowers and aromatic foliage that will grow anywhere ... but don't complain that it's made itself too much at home. The other thing I have that does really well in dry areas is Sweet Woodruff ... you can have some pieces of that too if you like ... and of course that's lovely for making the German maibowle fruit punch https://www.food.com/recipe/may-wine-punch-with-sweet-woodruff-mai-bowle-458379
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm feeling quite a bit better. I've been raking up fallen leaves and bits of branch from the hail storm in front of the up and over garage door. The garage isn't a garage anymore, it's a workshop, study and utility room. I've also pruned and tied up the grape vine that was hanging over the door so we can open it.
We want to clear the stuff, ladders, lawnmower, leaf blower, mops and buckets etc. out of the tool room so that OH can unpack the boxes of his DIY tools and put them away on the shelves and in the cubboards. May do that tomorrow as I'm now very tired and the ground outside is still wet after all the rain.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Afternoon all. I too have been productive. I've had the chainsaw out and attacked a massive conifer which has been annoying me for years. It is no more. "I can do butch when I try."
We've swept the patio and OH has washed the table and chairs so we can have dinner outside.
I'm not really a tennis watcher @Dovefromabove. The TV is on at the moment but muted so we can talk. OH is having a G&T and I'm having Martini Bianco and lemonade.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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No news is usually good news @Pat E
Another beautiful morning ... OH forgot to open the big sliding 'wall' in the studio when he made the morning cuppas, and it's like an oven in there ... too hot to work in until it cools down, so I'll do a little plumping of cushions in here then do the end of the month accounts a few days early ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Today I shall be wrestling with the alkanet in the border by my kitchen door - in which there are loads of hemerocallis blooming beautifully. They need a better setting.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm feeling quite a bit better. I've been raking up fallen leaves and bits of branch from the hail storm in front of the up and over garage door. The garage isn't a garage anymore, it's a workshop, study and utility room. I've also pruned and tied up the grape vine that was hanging over the door so we can open it.
We want to clear the stuff, ladders, lawnmower, leaf blower, mops and buckets etc. out of the tool room so that OH can unpack the boxes of his DIY tools and put them away on the shelves and in the cubboards. May do that tomorrow as I'm now very tired and the ground outside is still wet after all the rain.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I too have been productive.
I've had the chainsaw out and attacked a massive conifer which has been annoying me for years. It is no more.
"I can do butch when I try."
I'm not really a tennis watcher @Dovefromabove. The TV is on at the moment but muted so we can talk. OH is having a G&T and I'm having Martini Bianco and lemonade.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.