No gardening for me today as I slipped on black ice and fell on my back in full view of a load of villagers waiting at the bus stop. I think my bottom took the full brunt but oddly my foot hurts tonight. My hedge man came and lowered my mixed hedge a couple of feet so I will count that as gardening though.
A light day, splitting some snowdrop clumps to extend the white carpet.
Muttered at some hellebores that have got something wrong with them. Remove tomorrow I think. They've been there a very long time and in a bad patch of soil.
Another round of saws and shredder tomorrow as well
Gave my gh-overwintered Broad Bean plants their 'freedom' in prepared/ sheltered sunny beds: Bunyards Exhibition and The Sutton (dwarf) as they're becoming quite tall & in need of supporting sticks. Also started the 'spuds-in-buckets' plantation with 1st early Premiere. They too start off life in the small gh, then go up against sheltered S-facing stone wall later on as the tops develop. Filled a 4' trough with dozen primrose plants brought by oh for Valentines Day [half price at Homebase on Monday] -- trough will go on sunny windowledge (just wide enough) after the plants 'perk' up a bit!
I sowed broad bean seeds in pots in the GH. And I finished clearing up the prunings from the Wedding Day rose that acts as a hedge for the veggie garden. Filled 7 piled high wheelbarrows! Hasn't been pruned for a few years. Here are before and after photos. 7 metres long (not all in the photo). Well taller than me. Couldn't mow the grass under it as the rose had been in the way.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Another fabulous warm sunny day here. I bought a 100ltr bag of compost to fill a narrow border behind a new retaining wall along beside our drive. Also bought 3 x 6 packs of bulbs already sprouting in pots - daffs, narcissi and irises and tucked them in to the new compost. added some aubretia that I bought a couple of weeks ago and hey presto! Instant flowerbed where yesterday it still looked like a mini building site. A very satisfying
.. and then I came and shared it on here with people who understand just how satisfying something like that is
Oh it is, Daryl2. It was glorious up in the garden today and I worked very hard and then snapped some of the lovely flowers now blooming in my Butterfly garden where I was working, trying to restrict the nettles I grow to provide food for the caterpillars.
Glorious day here allowed for six hours of intensive gardening. Got a total of four climbers and six hefty shrubs moved or in the ground anew. Working entirely in the middle garden where renovations last year made new borders or areas in Borders that I was very pleased with, just a few corrections today
Sorry to hear that but Doc knows best. You rest that knee - I had a similar injury some years ago and didn't do as I was told - it took for ever to get better and there's still a bit of a problem! Also I took daughter out for the day yesterday - she was signed off for a fortnight at the end of last week as she hurt her back at work. She said yesterday morning that she thought she'd go to the doc's at the end of this week to get signed off as her back was much better ........... then she tried to get out of my car without me helping her!!! She now agrees that doctors don't do a long expensive training for nothing .............. (and neither do vets )
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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No gardening for me today as I slipped on black ice and fell on my back in full view of a load of villagers waiting at the bus stop. I think my bottom took the full brunt but oddly my foot hurts tonight. My hedge man came and lowered my mixed hedge a couple of feet so I will count that as gardening though.
A light day, splitting some snowdrop clumps to extend the white carpet.
Muttered at some hellebores that have got something wrong with them. Remove tomorrow I think. They've been there a very long time and in a bad patch of soil.
Another round of saws and shredder tomorrow as well
In the sticks near Peterborough
Gave my gh-overwintered Broad Bean plants their 'freedom' in prepared/ sheltered sunny beds: Bunyards Exhibition and The Sutton (dwarf) as they're becoming quite tall & in need of supporting sticks. Also started the 'spuds-in-buckets' plantation with 1st early Premiere. They too start off life in the small gh, then go up against sheltered S-facing stone wall later on as the tops develop. Filled a 4' trough with dozen primrose plants brought by oh for Valentines Day [half price at Homebase on Monday] -- trough will go on sunny windowledge (just wide enough) after the plants 'perk' up a bit!
The flowering photo is 2013
Oh dear, Forester, I hope you are OK.
I sowed broad bean seeds in pots in the GH. And I finished clearing up the prunings from the Wedding Day rose that acts as a hedge for the veggie garden. Filled 7 piled high wheelbarrows! Hasn't been pruned for a few years.
Here are before and after photos. 7 metres long (not all in the photo). Well taller than me. Couldn't mow the grass under it as the rose had been in the way.
Another fabulous warm sunny day here. I bought a 100ltr bag of compost to fill a narrow border behind a new retaining wall along beside our drive. Also bought 3 x 6 packs of bulbs already sprouting in pots - daffs, narcissi and irises and tucked them in to the new compost. added some aubretia that I bought a couple of weeks ago and hey presto! Instant flowerbed where yesterday it still looked like a mini building site. A very satisfying
.. and then I came and shared it on here with people who understand just how satisfying something like that is
Oh it is, Daryl2. It was glorious up in the garden today and I worked very hard and then snapped some of the lovely flowers now blooming in my Butterfly garden where I was working, trying to restrict the nettles I grow to provide food for the caterpillars.
What a stunning rose that is BL
Glorious day here allowed for six hours of intensive gardening. Got a total of four climbers and six hefty shrubs moved or in the ground anew. Working entirely in the middle garden where renovations last year made new borders or areas in Borders that I was very pleased with, just a few corrections today
Gorgeous pictures Marion, you can feel the warmth of the sunshine on them. Forecast here is for more of the same tomorrow
I was at the allotment today pulling up brocolli, sprout and kale plants, and digging over their beds.
No aching though
Sorry to hear that but Doc knows best. You rest that knee - I had a similar injury some years ago and didn't do as I was told - it took for ever to get better and there's still a bit of a problem! Also I took daughter out for the day yesterday - she was signed off for a fortnight at the end of last week as she hurt her back at work. She said yesterday morning that she thought she'd go to the doc's at the end of this week to get signed off as her back was much better ........... then she tried to get out of my car without me helping her!!! She now agrees that doctors don't do a long expensive training for nothing .............. (and neither do vets
)
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.