Please keep this thread going, your writings about your garden Marion is lovely, always so interesting. Your garden is just beautiful and full of colour already. If you ever write a book about your gardening, I would love to buy a copy.
So pleased you are enjoying it. It gives me great pleasure to share the garden with you all. I gave a whoop of joy tonight when the weather forecast was for fine settled warm dry calm weather for quite some time, thinking about all the jobs I can get done from now on. I will be golden in the face very early this year by the sound of tonight's forecast.
As soon as I donned my gardening boots and coat this morning it started to rain but I bided my time and it went away so I got a couple of hours done before lunch and sowed Marigold "Moon" and Cerinthe major purpurescens while I could not get out. Another couple of hours this afternoon will do me. The cut and come again Red Lettuce leaves are behaving better on their second sowing. These were one of four saladings we Nation of Gardeners participants had to sow for Mr. Fothergills trials and mine damped off before i had any red leaves but now I see them colouring up so prettier salads soon. I can recommend their Spicy Salad leaves mixture for taste. They are lovely in sandwiches and in salads and I always sprinkle some on my pizza, They are a great buddy for anything cheesy. Here are the Red lettuce leaves.
First it was very wet indeed and then the sun came out. The central heating has been switched off and the garden is looking very lush already. I got my auriculas I want to plant in the slate scree out from the conservatory to harden off and went up the garden taking more panoramic pictures now, including the ivy shelter I am working on in the Butterfly garden to run in to out of the showers in April , though the buds are showing on the Bramley apple and it is a good retreat. Muscari and Anemone blanda giving a good show now and lots of hyacinths. In the spinny the ground cover is doing well including the Vinca major from the Bot. garden the Welsh daffs. The kerria is blossoming everywhere, including through the prunus. The forsythia and flowering currant as well are blooming.
14 degrees and sunny outside. Worked on the heavy work till i could do no more then took my camera out. the butterflies were loving the bergenia flowers, more and more interesting daffodils were showing their wares and I found a very pretty seedling polyanthus in salmon pink. The smell from the hyacinths was lovely. The first picture is called "Good Companions".
Thank you. Verdun and Mrs Garden. My garden has never looked so beautiful. When I think how it was fifty years ago, being cared for by the 93 year old major's professional garden, it is a complete transformation apart from the nine parallel paths in the middle garden which were full of strawberry plants and roses in 1964! The paths are still there but now a myriad of flowers and shrubs spill over them and they are barely notiseable or at least their regimentation is. We are promised a week of good gardening weather and I shall take advantage of it.
Another Monday but such cheerful predictions from the weathermen that my hopes are very high for the jobs needing done in my Jubilee Garden this week. I started a huge assault on the brambles threatening to overwhelm the slate scree at the weekend so will finish that first. It is full of primulas spreading vegatively and by seedlings and there are hordes of cyclamen. They were all hidden under arches of brambles entangled with couch grass which also needs an assault. But the white Arabis montana is flowering well and the Arum italicum leaves are so pretty. In between I shall tidy up the patios and get rid of last winters wet leaves now they are drying up and easier to collect for leaf mould.
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Please keep this thread going, your writings about your garden Marion is lovely, always so interesting. Your garden is just beautiful and full of colour already. If you ever write a book about your gardening, I would love to buy a copy.
So pleased you are enjoying it. It gives me great pleasure to share the garden with you all. I gave a whoop of joy tonight when the weather forecast was for fine settled warm dry calm weather for quite some time, thinking about all the jobs I can get done from now on. I will be golden in the face very early this year by the sound of tonight's forecast.
As soon as I donned my gardening boots and coat this morning it started to rain but I bided my time and it went away so I got a couple of hours done before lunch and sowed Marigold "Moon" and Cerinthe major purpurescens while I could not get out. Another couple of hours this afternoon will do me. The cut and come again Red Lettuce leaves are behaving better on their second sowing. These were one of four saladings we Nation of Gardeners participants had to sow for Mr. Fothergills trials and mine damped off before i had any red leaves but now I see them colouring up so prettier salads soon. I can recommend their Spicy Salad leaves mixture for taste. They are lovely in sandwiches and in salads and I always sprinkle some on my pizza, They are a great buddy for anything cheesy. Here are the Red lettuce leaves.
First it was very wet indeed and then the sun came out. The central heating has been switched off and the garden is looking very lush already. I got my auriculas I want to plant in the slate scree out from the conservatory to harden off and went up the garden taking more panoramic pictures now, including the ivy shelter I am working on in the Butterfly garden to run in to out of the showers in April , though the buds are showing on the Bramley apple and it is a good retreat. Muscari and Anemone blanda giving a good show now and lots of hyacinths. In the spinny the ground cover is doing well including the Vinca major from the Bot. garden the Welsh daffs. The kerria is blossoming everywhere, including through the prunus. The forsythia and flowering currant as well are blooming.
14 degrees and sunny outside. Worked on the heavy work till i could do no more then took my camera out. the butterflies were loving the bergenia flowers, more and more interesting daffodils were showing their wares and I found a very pretty seedling polyanthus in salmon pink. The smell from the hyacinths was lovely. The first picture is called "Good Companions".
just beautiful marion.
Thank you. Verdun and Mrs Garden. My garden has never looked so beautiful. When I think how it was fifty years ago, being cared for by the 93 year old major's professional garden, it is a complete transformation apart from the nine parallel paths in the middle garden which were full of strawberry plants and roses in 1964! The paths are still there but now a myriad of flowers and shrubs spill over them and they are barely notiseable or at least their regimentation is. We are promised a week of good gardening weather and I shall take advantage of it.
Another Monday but such cheerful predictions from the weathermen that my hopes are very high for the jobs needing done in my Jubilee Garden this week. I started a huge assault on the brambles threatening to overwhelm the slate scree at the weekend so will finish that first. It is full of primulas spreading vegatively and by seedlings and there are hordes of cyclamen. They were all hidden under arches of brambles entangled with couch grass which also needs an assault. But the white Arabis montana is flowering well and the Arum italicum leaves are so pretty. In between I shall tidy up the patios and get rid of last winters wet leaves now they are drying up and easier to collect for leaf mould.