Snow and frost stopped play last week so I still have some perennials to shift and others to heel into the veggie plot for the winter till I can get their new homes cleared in spring. Bulbs too and, silly me, I bought some more daffs yesterday on sale.......
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Almost done now, weather forecast to be fairly dry and some sun. Have a fence post to take out and put back up straight, will do at the weekend when I've got help. Ordered bare root plants for the hedge. Was going to wait until the New Year, but then thought of snowy Januarys here and got them ordered before xmas.
Spent 5 hours out there today weeding and spreading compost and planting and transplanting and bulbing and got loads done but still more bulbs to plant. The soil is cold and claggy now so I'm off to buy compost and will then put the rest of the bulbs in pots in the greenhouse. They can then be plunged in the borders next spring.
That just leaves windbreaks to put up on the fences and the hose pipes to roll up and put away.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I like this thread too - I'm glad you started it Susan - it's great hearing what other people are up to, especially as I don't know any gardening folk
I told my colleagues at work today I had some clematis to plant out this weekend and got some funny looks Also a new leucanthemum and a funky campanula (another of my current plant whims) - hope the ground stays soft
I been upto a bit in the garden this week, tidy up the two front beds from summer. I am going to have a hot colour bed and the other not hot colours ( pinks - blue etc pastel colours i think its called)
Moved two rose out of six, had to bin one not flowered for years it was probably older than me.
planted some wallflowers with some pansys in troughs , forget me not with some red robin tulips in a border.
moving my strawberry bed creeping buttercups in a strawberry bed are a nightmare. i might plant some tulip bulbs in the strawberry bed to add a bit of colour
I got to move two gooseberry- pink currant - rhubarb as well.
Hopefully i get round to planting my daffodils, i got a 3kg bag yellow daffs and some called delnashaugh what look really nice to plant yet.
If i ever get round to it, I am going to flag a little bit to put a bench or something to sit on to admire the garden.
Gosh Perki, better get on with those daffs, usually in by October, are they sprouting in the bag yet, I found some like that!
Red tulips and forget me nots will look lovely together.
I have just got to get a covering of compost on the big horseshoe shaped border and near enough done. Looks like full sun tomorrow so will take advantage of OH to shovel it into the wheel barrow for me.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
hi lyn surprising they are not sprouting but the tulips are. I am late with everything this year, weather knock me off course it been such a long season for some plants. I had some begonia sempleforans and lots of other hardy annuals / perennials still flowering in the first week of December.
Same here Perki, Penstemons still flowering and fuchsias, Aunty Rinums and a few others, oh and a rose covered in buds, dont think they will bloom though!
The tubs were still blooming till late and you dont feel you can just throw them away.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Snow and frost stopped play last week so I still have some perennials to shift and others to heel into the veggie plot for the winter till I can get their new homes cleared in spring. Bulbs too and, silly me, I bought some more daffs yesterday on sale.......
Almost done now, weather forecast to be fairly dry and some sun. Have a fence post to take out and put back up straight, will do at the weekend when I've got help. Ordered bare root plants for the hedge. Was going to wait until the New Year, but then thought of snowy Januarys here and got them ordered before xmas.
I am still waiting to chop down my canna.. but the frost hasn't touched it yet and I'm waiting to see if the leaves survive until Xmas!
Spent 5 hours out there today weeding and spreading compost and planting and transplanting and bulbing and got loads done but still more bulbs to plant. The soil is cold and claggy now so I'm off to buy compost and will then put the rest of the bulbs in pots in the greenhouse. They can then be plunged in the borders next spring.
That just leaves windbreaks to put up on the fences and the hose pipes to roll up and put away.
I like this thread too - I'm glad you started it Susan - it's great hearing what other people are up to, especially as I don't know any gardening folk
I told my colleagues at work today I had some clematis to plant out this weekend and got some funny looks
Also a new leucanthemum and a funky campanula (another of my current plant whims) - hope the ground stays soft
I been upto a bit in the garden this week, tidy up the two front beds from summer. I am going to have a hot colour bed and the other not hot colours ( pinks - blue etc pastel colours i think its called)
Moved two rose out of six, had to bin one not flowered for years it was probably older than me.
planted some wallflowers with some pansys in troughs , forget me not with some red robin tulips in a border.
moving my strawberry bed
creeping buttercups in a strawberry bed are a nightmare. i might plant some tulip bulbs in the strawberry bed to add a bit of colour
I got to move two gooseberry- pink currant - rhubarb as well.
Hopefully i get round to planting my daffodils, i got a 3kg bag yellow daffs and some called delnashaugh what look really nice to plant yet.
If i ever get round to it, I am going to flag a little bit to put a bench or something to sit on to admire the garden.
Gosh Perki, better get on with those daffs, usually in by October, are they sprouting in the bag yet, I found some like that!
Red tulips and forget me nots will look lovely together.
I have just got to get a covering of compost on the big horseshoe shaped border and near enough done. Looks like full sun tomorrow so will take advantage of OH to shovel it into the wheel barrow for me.
hi lyn surprising they are not sprouting but the tulips are. I am late with everything this year, weather knock me off course it been such a long season for some plants. I had some begonia sempleforans and lots of other hardy annuals / perennials still flowering in the first week of December.
Same here Perki, Penstemons still flowering and fuchsias, Aunty Rinums and a few others, oh and a rose covered in buds, dont think they will bloom though!
The tubs were still blooming till late and you dont feel you can just throw them away.