Visited GC this morning purchased another two begonia for hanging basket s thought they needed a splash of yellow coir matting to line wall baskets and a bottle of vine weevil grub killer( I just can't keep up with searching and clearing everywhere ) then spent the next 6hours pricking out trays of verbascum White Bride ,aubretia ,( using my handy hair pin cos they are soooo tiny) marigolds and nastyurchins ,the sun went down over the yardarm so a GanT was in order before trying to wash off black aphids from my Acer
Today I weeded the lump of tufa rescued from my dad's garden before we sold his house. (When he retired he exchanged his large, productive garden for a pocket-handkerchief sized plot, so he grew entirely alpines for the rest of his life, mostly in troughs and raised beds.) This tufa came complete with little plants, mostly saxifrages, with minute rosettes of leaves, and at the moment, showy flowers. But it's a haven for moss and liverworts, which have to be picked out of the rosettes with eyebrow tweezers.
Less faffy gardening will be done tomorrow...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Hello everybody , took garden/ allottment waste to local tip , we have a bin for garden waste that council collect but nearly full and another week to go
Went to watch early game of football , shame my team lost , then home to tidy and cleans greenhouse , also put a temporary staging for seeds , O/H to plant some more seeds while I go up to allotment Tommrow
Very sunny and nice if in the sun but a really cold wind
You just reminded me GWRS, I'm tempted to pay our council £49 for the pleasure of not going to the tip! They dont collect garden waste unless we choose to pay! But I'll be miffed if I have too much and end up going anyway
As well as things I said I'd done in the garden on Hello thread (couldnt find this one), I have also said goodbye to several lavenders, some totally gone, others just ugly and took quick cuttings from them. Dug out a few spreading geraniums.
Reshaped a bed into a circle only just enough turf to reinstate the lawn cleared one of the dahlia beds ready for replanting. Checked all perennials and gave them a perk up it took longer and a lot more umph than I anticipated could be due to my sorting,lifting and nurturing buttercups ( I'm sure you will agree they do look like geraniums don't
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Very Verdun but getting near the end now
One border left, the raised bed plus a few gaps
I've worked hard every spring for a few years, will be odd not to have major work to do although OHs wallet won't suffer so much
I've been at work all day, but when I came back OH had made a wonderful job of clearing one of the big beds between terrace and pond.
Tomorrow we start mulching.
Visited GC this morning
purchased another two begonia for hanging basket s thought they needed a splash of yellow
coir matting to line wall baskets and a bottle of vine weevil grub killer( I just can't keep up with searching and clearing everywhere 
) then spent the next 6hours pricking out trays of verbascum White Bride ,aubretia ,( using my handy hair pin cos they are soooo tiny) marigolds and nastyurchins ,the sun went down over the yardarm so a GanT was in order before trying to wash off black aphids from my Acer 
Today I weeded the lump of tufa rescued from my dad's garden before we sold his house. (When he retired he exchanged his large, productive garden for a pocket-handkerchief sized plot, so he grew entirely alpines for the rest of his life, mostly in troughs and raised beds.) This tufa came complete with little plants, mostly saxifrages, with minute rosettes of leaves, and at the moment, showy flowers. But it's a haven for moss and liverworts, which have to be picked out of the rosettes with eyebrow tweezers.
Less faffy gardening will be done tomorrow...
Bumping up for Mrs. Garden.
Thanks BL.
Late start for me but done loads and loads, looks like I've done nowt!
Hello everybody , took garden/ allottment waste to local tip , we have a bin for garden waste that council collect but nearly full and another week to go
Went to watch early game of football , shame my team lost , then home to tidy and cleans greenhouse , also put a temporary staging for seeds , O/H to plant some more seeds while I go up to allotment Tommrow
Very sunny and nice if in the sun but a really cold wind
You just reminded me GWRS, I'm tempted to pay our council £49 for the pleasure of not going to the tip! They dont collect garden waste unless we choose to pay! But I'll be miffed if I have too much and end up going anyway
As well as things I said I'd done in the garden on Hello thread (couldnt find this one), I have also said goodbye to several lavenders, some totally gone, others just ugly and took quick cuttings from them. Dug out a few spreading geraniums.
Reshaped a bed into a circle
only just enough turf to reinstate the lawn
cleared one of the dahlia beds ready for replanting. Checked all perennials and gave them a perk up it took longer and a lot more umph than I anticipated 
could be due to my sorting,lifting and nurturing buttercups 
( I'm sure you will agree they do look like geraniums don't