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Anyone done any gardening today?

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I planted  stuff today. Some Verbascum lychnitis,  Anthyllis vulneraria, Delphinium staphisagria, Lychnis coronaria, hollyhocks. 

    Dug up an Astrantia 'Hadspen Blood', it had been there so long I needed heavy duty tools to split it. So took it down to small rooted bits and potted it to grow on.

    Admired latest germinations, Actaea alba, fidgetbone's paeony.



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    Got my spuds planted, shredded a coppiced hazel and a huge pile of other stuff.  Found homes for the 2 globe artichokes.  Had a rest and felt really hungry so was looking forward to my dinner when the power went off at 6.30pm!  Rang the electricity supplier and they estimated that it would be restored at 10.30pm..

    As I'm all electric that meant cold food so I rigged-up a battery powered light in the now dark kitchen so we could make sandwiches and, just as I finished spreading the butter and laying on the filling, the power came back on!

    Clearly, I have no choice but to eat the sandwiches AND my dinner! image

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • WintersongWintersong Posts: 2,436

    Did some faffing around a pergola frame laid out on the parking area then gardening....

    Moved a hellebore I divided late last spring because after removing some large plants from the lower garden that whole bed looks out of balance. Still stuff to do there but worked in middle garden for a bit.

    I moved a small shrub somewhere better, mulched it, weeded out some erroneous Crocosmia and then took my fork to a large bunch of Kniphofia to make three new clumps plus six babies. Planted them all up, moving a second small shrub to make room for all that. 

    OH cooked dinner so I downed a pint image or three.

  • Janet  2Janet 2 Posts: 114
    Had a couple of hours digging over my front garden. Would like to have got a bit more done as weather forecast not very good. My brain said yes but my back said no! So came in,nice hot bath and gardeners world on tv
  • Pippin4Pippin4 Posts: 63

    Going to a trade nursery today for a tour and hope to pick up a couple of bargains from their cash & carry to plant while on Easter break from College (if I can squeeze some time off from assignments...)

  • Morning guysimage used them last year Verdun were ok but only used compost for potting up established hosta s and mulching in the garden. A couple of the bags had a lot of shredded paper in,but that didn't matter. 

    Raining here and have the grandchildren stopping over so off to B&Q to get their big bags of MPC meant to be£5 a bale if they have anyimage )so I can sow and pot with the little one ) will pop into Tesco on the way back and get Paddington DVD so the others have something to watch after they finish their homework.(it sounds a good film but of course I don't want to watch it argh hmmimage)

  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328

    Great day in the garden yesterday, removing loads of bark chippings from the soil where birds have spread them from the path, unearthing germinating conkers (thanks, squirrels!), clearing and bagging yet more leaves, and removing kilos of moss from the shadiest banks.  Now I've done that I can see there are a few spaces to be filled, so I might get to order some shade-loving plants this afternoon, if the rain continues - maybe heucherellas, bergenia and some different pulmonarias, for a start...  image

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,023

    Done a load of pricking out seedlings in the GH, petunias, verbenas, ageratum Blue Mink. Had already done the Cosmos, bedding Dahlias, French Marigolds, Zinnias and tomatoes, that makes 284 little pots of plants. My plug pants arrive in early April, about 300 of them, haven't pricked out the Lobelia yet. HELP! where am I going to put them all, there is room for 220 more in the GH.

    Haven't sown the runner beans, courgettes and cucumbers yet.

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • WintersongWintersong Posts: 2,436

    Oh dear BL image

    Luckily I don't have that problem (probably because I don't have a GH yet)

    Been shaking and a grooving in the garden this morning, redesigning two borders with herbaceous stuff that needed doing, also recusing a few things from under shrubs that need the room to grow, improving soil and mulching at the same time.

    Trying to give most things a good feed this year as I neglected this business last couple of years but I want more healthy and lush plants this summer.image

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