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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,038

    Busy, busy, busy.

    Lovely day here: planting, weeding, dividing and potting on. As many jobs as I have done, my list is actually longer now than when I started.

    Verdun, some times there are plants you just have to have, even if you know there is nowhere to put them. The C.hoisya might go well with Persicaria Red Dragon.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,593

    Lovely sunny day.

    Did go out to play Lesley image

    Weeded veg patch, moved a hosta. Planted up a couple of pots.  Sorted shed.

    Sat in garden this afternoon knitting a baby jacket. 

    Made the most of the sunshine, forecast for end of week is rain.

    Time for another cuppaimage

  • WintersongWintersong Posts: 2,436

    Hi everyone 

    Sounds like good days all round, I busy watching IPL cricket but OH had to pause the TV for me as I was late back from GC where I picked up some terracotta pots and seaweed food and got tangled up with sticky labels image

    Some extra bedding plants for my summer pots, Salvia East Friedland x3 for the back of rose Burgundy Ice in the top garden and a Potentilla Summer Sorbet with beautiful soft yellow flowers for the middle garden.

    I've been adding soft hues to the middle garden just to relax the reds and oranges that I have going on later in the year, just need to decide if I need to repeat the Potentilla or not. 

    Verdun, I saw a gorgeous red hydrangea but it needs ericaceous soil, is it worth moving to Cornwall for a hydrangea? image

  • Hi Verdun just received my sunpatient plugs you recommended.I chose the variegated with white flowers image the nursery were on the ball with delivery and the quality of the plugs exceptional  I've potted them up and popped them in the

    Greenhouse except for two I've put them in fancy pots in the conservatory they are soo pretty even without the flowers .image

    I'll definitely use them again thanksimageimageimage

     

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,113

    Hello folks!  I've just taken Wonky back to Ipswich - she was missing her hubby image

    We went via the garden centre of course - her wages for all the hard work was that Choisya White Dazzler - I must say I've never ever noticed the perfumed leaves of choisya before, but that one has fantastically scented leaves image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • WintersongWintersong Posts: 2,436

    Should always try to plant near path,  mine is going in raised bed next to climbing rose Paul's Scarlet and a red Acer or next to pergola step with purple alliums, English Lavenders and iris black Swan, what'd think Verdun?   

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,887

    Phew , what a marathon. 

    Just in from working all day in the tunnels. 

    OH has been on his knees all day planting the last of the dahlias in " the allotment"

    Because of his tennis elbow, he's been kneeling on  a cushion using a hand fork to dig the holes.

    Bless'im

    Devon.
  • MrsGardenMrsGarden Posts: 3,951

    Sounds like some nice planting and planning is going on here todayimage

    All I've done is cut the grass after work. Not got any energy left image to do the edges even though they are in desperate needimage

    Got all sorts of unlabelled things in pots, many are half dead. I just don't know where to start with them allimage or how big they will grow, if I will like them, but can't find it in my heart to bin em and concentrate on what I know I'm happy withimage .

    my rhododendron is looking nice again, well the flowers are (the leaves didn't recover), euphoria fire glow is perking up nicely too image

  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,527

    Pass the Radox! image Dove knows how to work a womble! But also how to reward!

    If there are only three people that is how the pavlova must be divided! image 

    Think I worked it all off and more pulling up the carpet of ash tree roots in the end of Doves veg bed! Not to mention the relocation of the greenhouse and seating area!

    Just been out putting pots of plants all over my garden in preparation of planting tomorrow! image

    And away for 30 hours and my lawn seed has turned into lawn! Yippeee! image

    Glad everyone has had a productive day! Sounds like lots got done!

    Oh and Verdun, my reward from Dove was a white dazzler! image just figured exactly where its going! image

    Have a lovely evening all! image

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