hi Lizzie27 Thankyou. I like your thinking everything you said i'm aiming for over time. Though i have to be careful with height and placing as i'm in a first floor flat so the neighbours underneath me window is basically looking into my garden . i have got some young shrub/bush type plants but they still small and can't really see them in the pic but would love more i'm currently trying to propargate my honeysuckle too. i'll probably move the compost bins when i get the hedge in and its grown abit and was thinking of making the square lawn into a circle but maybe do that next year lol.
Pruned all of my Group 2 & 3 clematis (about 3 dozen of them) and got carried away de-tangling a couple of honeysuckles - won't be expecting too many flowers from those after such a massacre! Chopped 3 buddleia back hard and hacked back an overgrown Choisya, finishing off by cutting the Polka raspberries back to ground. Looks like a few hours shredding needed tomorrow!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
I chopped my group 3's too (thanks to Richard for the heads-up). Carried out a daylight patrol, first time since last Sunday and was happy to see new growth on things and lots of bulbs breaking the surface.
Did a bit of a tidy up and cut the dead stuff off some perennials as I'm not going to be able to wade into the borders for much longer - hopefully they'll be awash with flowering bulbs
Removed more lawn to create larger beds so expecting to ache quite a bit tomorrow. Still have so much to do in the garden. I grow sweet peas in two half barrows so need to get those sorted next plus a few plants still to get in. Good job it's half term next week.
Hi All, very pleased with myself - last week I made a compost bin out of pallets given to me by my neighbour. So please with myself I scrounged/rescued 3 more from a skip (asked first) and made a log store. Go me! lol
Lovely sunny morning here today. Went out for a wander around and ended up pruning roses and cutting back the pampas. It's going to get a reprieve this year and if it behaves it can stay - if not it will get the chop
I have been clearing couch grass roots from the surface of one of my allotment beds, about half of it is done, as we all know, couch grass roots don't just sit on the surface
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hi Lizzie27 Thankyou. I like your thinking everything you said i'm aiming for over time. Though i have to be careful with height and placing as i'm in a first floor flat so the neighbours underneath me window is basically looking into my garden
. i have got some young shrub/bush type plants but they still small and can't really see them in the pic but would love more i'm currently trying to propargate my honeysuckle too. i'll probably move the compost bins when i get the hedge in and its grown abit and was thinking of making the square lawn into a circle but maybe do that next year lol.
Hi Delboi,
Great minds think alike
Hadn't realised you had a flat, you're really lucky it came with the garden as it's good to have some outside space.
Good luck with the hedge planting, hope the weather's good when you do it.
Pruned all of my Group 2 & 3 clematis (about 3 dozen of them) and got carried away de-tangling a couple of honeysuckles - won't be expecting too many flowers from those after such a massacre! Chopped 3 buddleia back hard and hacked back an overgrown Choisya, finishing off by cutting the Polka raspberries back to ground. Looks like a few hours shredding needed tomorrow!
I chopped my group 3's too (thanks to Richard for the heads-up
). Carried out a daylight patrol, first time since last Sunday and was happy to see new growth on things and lots of bulbs breaking the surface.
Did a bit of a tidy up and cut the dead stuff off some perennials as I'm not going to be able to wade into the borders for much longer - hopefully they'll be awash with flowering bulbs
Removed more lawn to create larger beds so expecting to ache quite a bit tomorrow. Still have so much to do in the garden. I grow sweet peas in two half barrows so need to get those sorted next plus a few plants still to get in. Good job it's half term next week.
Hi All, very pleased with myself - last week I made a compost bin out of pallets given to me by my neighbour. So please with myself I scrounged/rescued 3 more from a skip (asked first) and made a log store. Go me! lol
Lovely sunny morning here today. Went out for a wander around and ended up pruning roses and cutting back the pampas. It's going to get a reprieve this year and if it behaves it can stay - if not it will get the chop
I have been clearing couch grass roots from the surface of one of my allotment beds, about half of it is done, as we all know, couch grass roots don't just sit on the surface