@lilylouise.. you have a video of your garden.. please direct me to it..would love very much to see it.. love looking other gardens... gives me ideas all the time for mine.
Well, I am beginning my day---but at 8 am it's only 4 degrees! Bright sunshine, though.
I am off this morning to visit a friend who had a bad fall while waiting for a hip replacement--she recently moved, and I am taking her the rest of my tomato plants [her partner will plant them]--and some carrot muffins. Perhaps I will get my garden construction finished this afternoon. Painting trellises tomorrow.
3 loads of washing out and dried. Finally potted on basil and cucumbers. Sowed Swiss chard, black and red Russian kale. Started hardening off courgettes, butternut squash, runner and climbing french beans. First roses out on Mme Alfred Carriere. Lots of wandering around in the sun making plans. Forecast for possible frost tonight (grrr!) so off to put cloches back on dwarf French beans. @inkadog - your friend grows some pretty impressive spinach!
Don't forget to snip some cuttings Inkadog! I would love to see her three acres and hear some of her vast experience in this fascination we all share.
I planted a foliage shrub in my shade border today that has been growing in its pot for one year while I decided exactly where to place it. It's strange how it can travel the entire garden not looking any different from day to day and season to season and then BHAM! I find its perfect spot
I have enormous difficulty with the design element of gardening because I just can't be rushed to make my mind up, no matter how much I read and research I do although after I had popped to the garden centre again to pick up my lovely new Euphorbia Silver Swan that I earmarked a couple of weeks back, I managed to discover the perfect planting spot for my hosta Blue Cadet that I'm busy growing on this year as well as marrying my new Euphorbia with a Berberis thunbergii Rose Glow that has been moved three times since I bought it in my bid to find its perfect spot!
As soon as I popped Euphorbia Silver swan onto the full sun border, its red stems immediately matched the Berberis, the foliage being perfect contrasts whilst I know the flowers of both will match incredibly well. I'm really chuffed with this marriage, I think these two are soul mates and along with a nearby Rosemary that has equally appealing foliage contrasts, I have proudly worked out a triangle arrangement for next year in the full sun border.
Hurray! Four plants found their homes/soul-mates today in my garden!
Wintersong, I would love to see a photo of that combination; I have a Berberis rose glow in a big pot that I am wondering where to situate.
Figrat, you have been busy! Garden planning is such fun!
That's rhubarb in the photo, by the way, and you should have seen her cauliflowers! She is vey generous with plants and cuttings, although I have far from her ideal conditions for growing. And I just remembered she is 89, not 88.She has many amazing huge specimen trees, and her rhodos and azaleas and roses are spectacular. She hires people for the heavy work, but she is out there every day.
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@wintersong.. sounds like you had busy day.. but you will still have energy for today.. have fune.
@Wintersong, what a very productive day, bet you slept well last night
@Dean, good luck with the greenhouse
@Gardeningfanatic, enjoy your tittivating
@Excitable Boy, Have a lovely day am sure you will enjoy it, I was like a child in a sweet shop the first time I went!
Beautiful day here Im off to garden, yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Gardeningfanatic - here it is
Pam x
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G--4JEzq4dY
I hope everyone has had a good day in the garden today - it has been a beautiful day
I did some potting up,watering and painted the trellis that Barry had to mend first
We are going to move some plants out tomorrow - hooray!!! I will then have some space in my greenhouses
Pam x
Well, I am beginning my day---but at 8 am it's only 4 degrees! Bright sunshine, though.
I am off this morning to visit a friend who had a bad fall while waiting for a hip replacement--she recently moved, and I am taking her the rest of my tomato plants [her partner will plant them]--and some carrot muffins. Perhaps I will get my garden construction finished this afternoon. Painting trellises tomorrow.
This is my friend Zona--88 and still going strong--a master gardener.Her garden is 3 acres and an absolute marvel.
Don't forget to snip some cuttings Inkadog! I would love to see her three acres and hear some of her vast experience in this fascination we all share.
I planted a foliage shrub in my shade border today that has been growing in its pot for one year while I decided exactly where to place it. It's strange how it can travel the entire garden not looking any different from day to day and season to season and then BHAM! I find its perfect spot
I have enormous difficulty with the design element of gardening because I just can't be rushed to make my mind up, no matter how much I read and research I do although after I had popped to the garden centre again
to pick up my lovely new Euphorbia Silver Swan that I earmarked a couple of weeks back, I managed to discover the perfect planting spot for my hosta Blue Cadet that I'm busy growing on this year as well as marrying my new Euphorbia with a Berberis thunbergii Rose Glow that has been moved three times since I bought it in my bid to find its perfect spot!
As soon as I popped Euphorbia Silver swan onto the full sun border, its red stems immediately matched the Berberis, the foliage being perfect contrasts whilst I know the flowers of both will match incredibly well. I'm really chuffed with this marriage, I think these two are soul mates and along with a nearby Rosemary that has equally appealing foliage contrasts, I have proudly worked out a triangle arrangement for next year in the full sun border.
Hurray! Four plants found their homes/soul-mates today in my garden!
Wintersong, I would love to see a photo of that combination; I have a Berberis rose glow in a big pot that I am wondering where to situate.
Figrat, you have been busy! Garden planning is such fun!
That's rhubarb in the photo, by the way, and you should have seen her cauliflowers! She is vey generous with plants and cuttings, although I have far from her ideal conditions for growing. And I just remembered she is 89, not 88.She has many amazing huge specimen trees, and her rhodos and azaleas and roses are spectacular. She hires people for the heavy work, but she is out there every day.