Tracey you'll have no space for many more plants surely!!
The rest of my snowdrops are going in tonight (not sure where yet! Maybe in random clumps on the lawn?) I put them in pots with a damp compost / sand mix so I hope they'll be okay out for the day but I really couldn't see what I was doing!
Narrowing down my "wish list" for the pond plant wise at the moment (work still lacking!) in the hope that they might have one or two in stock this weekend. Then its time to start some serious saving to buy the wooden timbers I want to use as surrounds for the pond and garden beds.
Been so busy over the last few days so I will catch up with posts later on
Here is the tree bumble loving my violas
I have managed to finish planting all the daffs in the pic below big bag all for fiver instead of twenty quid - around back of pond area that took quite a bit of time to do
Got my variegated holly trees in and the pulmonaria opal in on Sunday
On Monday I planted more plants around the back of the pond on top of daffs, some crocus tommasinianus, Doves little cyclamen hederifolium alba.(thanks Dove)
Just the other side of the logs planted - scilla ,ipheion and snowflakes and a lamium beacon silver right near tree far end
This is how it looks now with the frog house ready for frogs, I did find a newt from under a bag of leaf mulch and put it in there yesterday
Also spotted a peacock butterfly, could not get a picture - flew off too fast, and the blackbirds starting to make a nest at the bottom of the garden just the other side of the train wire fence.
Planted around pond right side - primrose Emily, fern- polystichum setiferum , stachy byzantine silver carpet, diorama dracomontanum, a reed moved from other area of garden and a anemone hybrid honorine jobert - white
Thinking of putting loads of logs around pond edge, cut up. tried to cut one branch too hard - lobbers got stuck, I got them out but the handle hit me in the throat really hard - hurts and bruised sore today so taking it easy
Oh dear. Owing to the office having nothing for me to do yesterday I ordered (yay online shopping) two compost bins from Go Composting (subsidized from the council somehow).
Well owing to there still being nothing to do I just brought off a local selling site another compost bin and a water butt (£20 for the both - bargain!!)
I already have one compost bin - but you can never have too many surely?
I presume you have a big garden Clari? I was debating another compost bin but just haven't got the space, just waiting for the GH to be put up at weekend and then I will review
Whoever said I won't have any space left, you're almost right and I must admit whilst putting my snowdrops in just now I was wondering where I was going to put all the bedding plants I have sown and also where to put my daffodils that are sprouting nicely out of the net bag (remember that conversation about daffodil hanging bags the other week?? Well mine is doing great ).
Sweet peas now in their new home too and also wondering whether to just save the seeds I bought until Autumn as I just don't know where they will grow......question on David's thread I think
Right, back to work, I may sit and work in the sunshine
Tracey, bedding plants can go in big pots - lots of cheapy ones around at this time of year, and you can spray them with acrylic spray paint/car paint sort of stuff and when they're full of blooming plants who'll notice the pots anyway?
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I think I am going to be brave and plant mine out.
On my lunch break, nipping to a well known DIY store for fence paint and will not be looking at any plants
I am also going to put the rest of my snowdrops in, seen as I have been working very hard this morning whilst desperate to get out in the sun!!
Tracey you'll have no space for many more plants surely!!
The rest of my snowdrops are going in tonight (not sure where yet! Maybe in random clumps on the lawn?) I put them in pots with a damp compost / sand mix so I hope they'll be okay out for the day but I really couldn't see what I was doing!
Narrowing down my "wish list" for the pond plant wise at the moment (work still lacking!) in the hope that they might have one or two in stock this weekend. Then its time to start some serious saving to buy the wooden timbers I want to use as surrounds for the pond and garden beds.
Hello all,
Been so busy over the last few days so I will catch up with posts later on
Here is the tree bumble loving my violas
I have managed to finish planting all the daffs in the pic below big bag all for fiver instead of twenty quid - around back of pond area that took quite a bit of time to do
Got my variegated holly trees in and the pulmonaria opal in on Sunday
On Monday I planted more plants around the back of the pond on top of daffs, some crocus tommasinianus, Doves little cyclamen hederifolium alba.(thanks Dove)
Just the other side of the logs planted - scilla ,ipheion and snowflakes and a lamium beacon silver right near tree far end
This is how it looks now with the frog house ready for frogs, I did find a newt from under a bag of leaf mulch and put it in there yesterday
Also spotted a peacock butterfly, could not get a picture - flew off too fast, and the blackbirds starting to make a nest at the bottom of the garden just the other side of the train wire fence.
Planted around pond right side - primrose Emily, fern- polystichum setiferum , stachy byzantine silver carpet, diorama dracomontanum, a reed moved from other area of garden and a anemone hybrid honorine jobert - white
Thinking of putting loads of logs around pond edge, cut up. tried to cut one branch too hard - lobbers got stuck, I got them out but the handle hit me in the throat really hard - hurts and bruised sore today so taking it easy
looks great Gg and what a lot of work! Hope your throats better soon - take it easy you've done a brilliant job, have a react and recover!
Oh dear. Owing to the office having nothing for me to do yesterday I ordered (yay online shopping) two compost bins from Go Composting (subsidized from the council somehow).
Well owing to there still being nothing to do I just brought off a local selling site another compost bin and a water butt (£20 for the both - bargain!!)
I already have one compost bin - but you can never have too many surely?
I presume you have a big garden Clari? I was debating another compost bin but just haven't got the space, just waiting for the GH to be put up at weekend and then I will review
Whoever said I won't have any space left, you're almost right and I must admit whilst putting my snowdrops in just now I was wondering where I was going to put all the bedding plants I have sown and also where to put my daffodils that are sprouting nicely out of the net bag (remember that conversation about daffodil hanging bags the other week?? Well mine is doing great
).
Sweet peas now in their new home too and also wondering whether to just save the seeds I bought until Autumn as I just don't know where they will grow......question on David's thread I think
Right, back to work, I may sit and work in the sunshine
Is that the £35.46 for 2x 330 litres clari? Not committed to buy yet, got to spend it on plants!
Sunny now but still cold.
Cold? I'm sat here in a vest top, it is lovely and warm and the birds are singing and I'm a happy lady today......and it's only Tuesday
Tracey, bedding plants can go in big pots - lots of cheapy ones around at this time of year, and you can spray them with acrylic spray paint/car paint sort of stuff and when they're full of blooming plants who'll notice the pots anyway?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Tracey - its not a little garden but its not huge that's for sure!
I read somewhere that you want
1 for filling with things to compost
1 for sitting there full of stuff happily composting away
1 for using all full of well rotted goodness
So you get a nice cycle going.
I'll just have one extra for erm.... I'm sure I'll fill it eventually!!