Yes, I've been in the garden for 4 hours today, lovely and sunny in lincolnshire. I'm trying to identify a shrub that I've killed, could anyone help please, it's the one on the right
Tree peony, the leaves hang dead at this time. Even if you've cut it down it will usually send up new suckers from the root, but they may not flower this year.
What have you done to it to make you think you've killed it?
I moved it before Christmas but I don't think I got all of its roots, it has shriveled up. The stem is very woody with a 'silverish' bark, is that right?
Today I planted 2 bare foot roses (blue for you) and potted up a few bre root perennials. I also planted 2 tree Lily's after the great British garden revival convinced me to give them a go. They were very reasonably priced from wilkoS.
Finally I sowed a few seeds including cornflower, foxglove, blue phlox (annual type), perennial poppy, scabious and some pom Pom dahlias. Can't wait to see them pop up!
Trimmed all the side shoots up to 6 foot on black bamboos near the house, tidied up one raised bed and planted 2 herbs in my herb bed. Next on the list are the acer bed, bamboo and grass bed and soft fruit bed.
I sowed a bunch of seeds last week. I'm far more northerly in the UK than I want to be, so it's still cold with a risk of frost in the greenhouse and there's not enough light in the house. Consequently, the young seedlings, particularly the Pak choi are etiolated. It was worth a try though and duly noted in the 2016+ year planner in my head .Back into my hibernarium for a couple of weeks.
At the weekend I finally finished clearing a whole section of an overgrown bed. Dug up three black bags of crocosmia corms. I had to lift the having to get what was growing under and over it. Got some bulbs planted in the space I cleared. Today is a lovely gardening day, hope to get a lot done.
Have done nothing since mid January, too cold, ground frozen half the time, icy wind the last few days, even a sprinkle of snow here in Dordogne. But sun is out today.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
We have finally climbed above zero but it is grey and the earlier heavy mist has turned to drizzle. The ground in the shade is still frozen solid but the snowdrops are now through too and will be flowering in a few days if the temps don't drop again. The only gardening I did this weekend was t carry on tieing in the windbreak fabric and the next job will be slug pellets to protect emerging daffodil shoots.
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Yes, I've been in the garden for 4 hours today, lovely and sunny in lincolnshire. I'm trying to identify a shrub that I've killed, could anyone help please, it's the one on the right
Tree peony, the leaves hang dead at this time. Even if you've cut it down it will usually send up new suckers from the root, but they may not flower this year.
What have you done to it to make you think you've killed it?
I moved it before Christmas but I don't think I got all of its roots, it has shriveled up. The stem is very woody with a 'silverish' bark, is that right?
Today I planted 2 bare foot roses (blue for you) and potted up a few bre root perennials. I also planted 2 tree Lily's after the great British garden revival convinced me to give them a go. They were very reasonably priced from wilkoS.
Finally I sowed a few seeds including cornflower, foxglove, blue phlox (annual type), perennial poppy, scabious and some pom Pom dahlias. Can't wait to see them pop up!
Trimmed all the side shoots up to 6 foot on black bamboos near the house, tidied up one raised bed and planted 2 herbs in my herb bed. Next on the list are the acer bed, bamboo and grass bed and soft fruit bed.
I sowed a bunch of seeds last week. I'm far more northerly in the UK than I want to be, so it's still cold with a risk of frost in the greenhouse and there's not enough light in the house. Consequently, the young seedlings, particularly the Pak choi are etiolated. It was worth a try though and duly noted in the 2016+ year planner in my head .Back into my hibernarium for a couple of weeks.
At the weekend I finally finished clearing a whole section of an overgrown bed. Dug up three black bags of crocosmia corms. I had to lift the having to get what was growing under and over it. Got some bulbs planted in the space I cleared. Today is a lovely gardening day, hope to get a lot done.
Have done nothing since mid January, too cold, ground frozen half the time, icy wind the last few days, even a sprinkle of snow here in Dordogne. But sun is out today.
We have finally climbed above zero but it is grey and the earlier heavy mist has turned to drizzle. The ground in the shade is still frozen solid but the snowdrops are now through too and will be flowering in a few days if the temps don't drop again. The only gardening I did this weekend was t carry on tieing in the windbreak fabric and the next job will be slug pellets to protect emerging daffodil shoots.
It's lovely out there again, better than the forecast yesterday and today,
Carrying on with the winter clearance
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