Yes i know what you mean, ,i love seeing the end result, watching the bird enjoy my garde, got the morning off work today as i worked Saturday morning, i've seen a lot of new flowers opening up today, i will have to take some photo's to show you Marion, enjoy your garden today Marion and hope the weather stays fine for you
Six more cucamelons in their big pots with their bamboo wigwam to scramble up. i reckon they are growing several inches a day now. Very satisfying. I have promised all my friends if i get a good crop they can have handfuls of these little gherkins to scatter with the cherry tomatoes over their salads. Tackling the shrubs and perennials again this afternoon as the rain has softened my clay a little. My Bristol clay goes like concrete after the end of May usually so have to get all my planting in the garden done by then. Raised beds and troughs are quite another matter as I have provided the compost for them.
Taking Adams tip I have begun to prune back the arched branches of Wigelia that have finished flowering, much to the annoyance of the bees who are still busily working their way over the bush.
Having cut down the wallflowers to promote more (if smaller) flowers I see that the anemones have been coming through and looking straggly. So decided to pot up the wallflowers and made a note to remember just how the wallflowers can bush out. May plant in pots next year, be good to move them around.
I have started my own trial on wisteria: layering from a low growing branch, soft growth cuttings started in water and, from a post on another thread (sorry the name escapes me) layering one of the whippy shoots. Noted that even if they take it will be years before they flower I will be interested to see what happens.
Another lovely dry day forecast for Bristol before the deluge coming through the night so must get lots of jobs completed today. There are a lot of bulbs outside which will have to come into the kitchen to dry off thoroughly before being bagged up to plant again in the autumn. Anything I plant today will get a good watering as rain is forecast for the next four days.
resh here after the rain. I expect we will get your deluge sometime tomorrow!
Talking of drying bulbs, when you bag them do you include any dry material ie straw or old bulb fibre? I have so many this year that I thought I would use paper bags to keep the colours separate.
Almost forgot, a lovely surprise of at least two dozen bumble bees busy on the Cotoneaster plant. Made my day
If they are perfectly dry, the bulbs I mean, they are fine in a paper bag or a net one you can hang up. Just keep them as they came when you bought them. There are going to be lots of berries for the birds again this autumn looking at the amount of blossom on the cotoneaster, holly and pyracantha.
When I went to the potager to get baby broad beans for supper tonight I picked myself a big bunch of Verbena bonariensis which is in flower early this year and smiled at the thought that no presenter has mentioned it this year. I can remember years when it seemed every garden had it. Ah well there is fashion in plants too.
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Six more cucamelons in their big pots with their bamboo wigwam to scramble up. i reckon they are growing several inches a day now. Very satisfying. I have promised all my friends if i get a good crop they can have handfuls of these little gherkins to scatter with the cherry tomatoes over their salads. Tackling the shrubs and perennials again this afternoon as the rain has softened my clay a little. My Bristol clay goes like concrete after the end of May usually so have to get all my planting in the garden done by then. Raised beds and troughs are quite another matter as I have provided the compost for them.
Very dull out but oh it does give beautiful pictures. My Euonymus europaea is going to be so locely in the autumn as it is covered in tiny flowers.
Taking Adams tip I have begun to prune back the arched branches of Wigelia that have finished flowering, much to the annoyance of the bees who are still busily working their way over the bush.
Having cut down the wallflowers to promote more (if smaller) flowers I see that the anemones have been coming through and looking straggly. So decided to pot up the wallflowers and made a note to remember just how the wallflowers can bush out. May plant in pots next year, be good to move them around.
I have started my own trial on wisteria: layering from a low growing branch, soft growth cuttings started in water and, from a post on another thread (sorry the name escapes me) layering one of the whippy shoots. Noted that even if they take it will be years before they flower I will be interested to see what happens.
Another lovely dry day forecast for Bristol before the deluge coming through the night so must get lots of jobs completed today. There are a lot of bulbs outside which will have to come into the kitchen to dry off thoroughly before being bagged up to plant again in the autumn. Anything I plant today will get a good watering as rain is forecast for the next four days.
resh here after the rain. I expect we will get your deluge sometime tomorrow!
Talking of drying bulbs, when you bag them do you include any dry material ie straw or old bulb fibre? I have so many this year that I thought I would use paper bags to keep the colours separate.
Almost forgot, a lovely surprise of at least two dozen bumble bees busy on the Cotoneaster plant. Made my day
If they are perfectly dry, the bulbs I mean, they are fine in a paper bag or a net one you can hang up. Just keep them as they came when you bought them. There are going to be lots of berries for the birds again this autumn looking at the amount of blossom on the cotoneaster, holly and pyracantha.
When I went to the potager to get baby broad beans for supper tonight I picked myself a big bunch of Verbena bonariensis which is in flower early this year and smiled at the thought that no presenter has mentioned it this year. I can remember years when it seemed every garden had it. Ah well there is fashion in plants too.
It was delicious, flumpy !.