And breathe.... Ahh lovely morning in the garden, mainly digging, raking, pottering, moving stones to form a path I planned last year. Garden looks in great shape, even if I do say so myself! Still got massive laurels to chop but they will have to wait, off for a shower, lunch then visiting friend. Oh, and son has 'planted' footballs in spare patches in borders, lovely!
17.6C in the shade here - I've taken my shirt off - it's ok, I've got a tee shirt on
Hyacinths are gorgeous and Lily Beetles have arrived
OH is having an after lunch doze - but then he did work very hard this morning while I was getting my ear attended to - he worked so hard he snapped the handle of my border spade - oh well, I shall have to treat myself to a new one
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
20C here too! Just removed my (almost) dead Acer palmatum and replaced it (not in exactly the same place) with a dwarf magnolia which has spent a year in a large pot. Magnolia are listed as resistant to Honey Fungus (but not immune.) Used plenty of root-it mycorrhizae in the planting hole in the hope that it has a little underground fight with the HF!
Quite a few butterflies about, so taking camera out in a mo.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
I've got a very lovely Under Gardener - he's digging my wildlife pond for me (with the broken spade ((hugs)) - no more procrastinating about where and when - it's happening now - It's going to be roughly egg shaped and 1.70m x 2.70m That's bigger than I'd thought
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That's me done working Weeded 2 beds, hoed, turned bins, lifted thing in & out of GH for an airing, pruned, and now pooped. Going to sit on bench in remains of sun, still in shorts and plan what's to do tomoz'. Might have a long cold drink
Has anyone got any spare food? I forgot about that. Will have to be the defrosted chicken thighs and "summat".
Dove my undergarden is still crook...hasn't broken the spade rather broken his back ( me thinks pulled it ) well enough for footie match but can't bend properly Pond so , hope that's envy & not sick.
Bob never encountered honey fungus, hope all thrives. Hardly dared type that, don't want to tempt fate. We've seen one butterfly and rescued 2 bees from GH. They get cross when you grab them with kitchen towel
Dove lily beetles Spent half last Spring / Summer hunting the devils, this year they get Provado. I've 7 pots of lilies and it became an obsession last year, spot the beetle.
p.s. I wasn't offering Vodka & Tequila earlier just trying to make my pal Panda poorly, I'm kind like that Hope you now well recovered Panda x
KEF - I grew lilies in pots last summer for the first time - I left them in the pots over winter - now one of them, Rio Negro, seems to be growing hundreds of babies in the pot - that's lovely glad it's happy - but do you think the big 'parent' bulbs will flower again this year? I'm not au fait with these more exotic lilies
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove I'm sure it will. Mine have been in pots for ages and still produce a huge lily / lilies, the bulblets don't seem to do anything unless you totally repot and grow them on, which I haven't done. Will do shortly with two pots as they got frost damaged last year and are dropping to bits. I top dress mine in Spring & give a tomato feed when they start to show flower heads. Then give liquid feed as they die off. I'm no expert but have grown for years and my method works for me
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And breathe.... Ahh lovely morning in the garden, mainly digging, raking, pottering, moving stones to form a path I planned last year. Garden looks in great shape, even if I do say so myself! Still got massive laurels to chop but they will have to wait, off for a shower, lunch then visiting friend. Oh, and son has 'planted' footballs in spare patches in borders, lovely!
Back in to put shorts on 20C in sun
Glad you feeling better Panda
BFN
17.6C in the shade here - I've taken my shirt off - it's ok, I've got a tee shirt on
Hyacinths are gorgeous
and Lily Beetles have arrived 
OH is having an after lunch doze - but then he did work very hard this morning while I was getting my ear attended to - he worked so hard he snapped the handle of my border spade
- oh well, I shall have to treat myself to a new one 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just ordered a Draper stainless steel border spade with an ash handle - should be here in a couple of days
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
20C here too! Just removed my (almost) dead Acer palmatum and replaced it (not in exactly the same place) with a dwarf magnolia which has spent a year in a large pot. Magnolia are listed as resistant to Honey Fungus (but not immune.) Used plenty of root-it mycorrhizae in the planting hole in the hope that it has a little underground fight with the HF!
Quite a few butterflies about, so taking camera out in a mo.
I've got a very lovely Under Gardener - he's digging my wildlife pond for me (with the broken spade
((hugs)) - no more procrastinating about where and when - it's happening now - It's going to be roughly egg shaped and 1.70m x 2.70m That's bigger than I'd thought 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
That's me done working
Weeded 2 beds, hoed, turned bins, lifted thing in & out of GH for an airing, pruned, and now pooped. Going to sit on bench in remains of sun, still in shorts 
and plan what's to do tomoz'. Might have a long cold drink 
Has anyone got any spare food? I forgot about that. Will have to be the defrosted chicken thighs and "summat".
Dove my undergarden is still crook...hasn't broken the spade rather broken his back ( me thinks pulled it ) well enough for footie match but can't bend properly
Pond so 
, hope that's envy & not sick.
Bob never encountered honey fungus, hope all thrives. Hardly dared type that, don't want to tempt fate. We've seen one butterfly and rescued 2 bees from GH. They get cross when you grab them with kitchen towel
Dove lily beetles
Spent half last Spring / Summer hunting the devils, this year they get Provado. I've 7 pots of lilies and it became an obsession last year, spot the beetle.
p.s. I wasn't offering Vodka & Tequila earlier just trying to make my pal Panda poorly, I'm kind like that
Hope you now well recovered Panda x
KEF - I grew lilies in pots last summer for the first time - I left them in the pots over winter - now one of them, Rio Negro, seems to be growing hundreds of babies in the pot - that's lovely
glad it's happy - but do you think the big 'parent' bulbs will flower again this year? I'm not au fait with these more exotic lilies 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove I'm sure it will. Mine have been in pots for ages and still produce a huge lily / lilies, the bulblets don't seem to do anything unless you totally repot and grow them on, which I haven't done. Will do shortly with two pots as they got frost damaged last year and are dropping to bits. I top dress mine in Spring & give a tomato feed when they start to show flower heads. Then give liquid feed as they die off. I'm no expert but have grown for years and my method works for me
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