Hung washing out in my dressing gown at 9.00am and didn't go back into the house until 12.00 took a lot out of the cold frame and planted them in the ground...dahlias/antirhinnums/cosmos. Pruned baggesens gold/ thinned out beetroot ....all in my dressing-gown some things are just too enjoyable to interrupt by getting dressed
Dry and sunny here but only 22C so excellent for gardening. I've cleared away unwanted pink geraniums that are proving just a bit too happy and invasive along with loads of spent forget-me-not. Found some bindweed trying to emerge in sneaky places and have scattered the weedlings on the lawn to dry out thoroughly before they end up on the compost heap.
Planted out my new penstemon Sour Grapes and geum Mai Thai and potentilla sanguineum but found the soil really dry down several inches so now I've got the sprinkler on as I need to carry on shifting unwanted geraniums and some comfrey in another patch tomorrow.
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you're my kind of girl gareninglily1 i went out for my coffee and a shmoke at 9am and didn't come back in till 5.30pm
i took down my temporary trellis gate i have been using as a support for two clematis, then my husband put up my three large trellises, need to move my justa clematis so i did, it seems ok atm but the worst is i will heve to cut it back but it has had two watering cans in the course of today so fingers crossed. found some more campanulas canterbury bells, thought i'd planted them all so a bonus, gave the garden a good soaking this morning, threw away my compost bin contents into the brown bin as i had mixed in all the leaf miner leaves and plants by accident and as my compost bin doesn't create heat i was worried i would infect the garden again next year it was almost compost too, i'm gutted but there you go.
Gardening over housework any day sanjy hope your clematis survives the move - I'm always moving things around and 99% it's ok. I'm looking at moving a cordyline at the moment...it's just got too big and looks out of place.
well i have experience of that as it happens we moved an 18ft one in november/dec cutting twoft off it as it took 5 men to lift it in to new position, my husband spent a whole day digging it out carefully as to not break the tap root which goes down quite a long way......... it is virtually bald now, in hindsight i wish i new then to seal the wound with wax so water didn't get in it but we are going to leave it til nest year and see if it sprout new shoots after the shock of being moved, i'd say ours had been planted from a small plant bought at a market for about 10 years, we had to move it anyway as the garage was going where it was.
Done nothing except a general check round, which I do every day anyway as I 'work' from home. Two news flashes - Thalictrum delavayi seedlings are now up, and, tremendously exciting as I've never seen one much less grown it, my Gillenia trifoliata is just about to flower. Planted it as a 9cm plant last autumn.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
WillDB - Thalictrum delavayi is one of my favourite summer flowering perennials. I have the double white growing in a border which is shaded from about 2pm onwards. It's a pretty bit of cooling white froth at the height of summer.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
i have a multi headed one wintersong and it was taking up to much width so i cut 4 off but sealed the wounds with candle wax.
today i have cut down a lot of the bamboo so have lots of canes and the green one i cut down i have bent lots of them into hoops held with wire to keep them in shape to dry out ready for use in holding up tall plants i hade some damp newspaper traps with rotting banana skin in them for the woodlice (hopefully) so i will check them in the morning, Have resorted to using ant powder in one part of the garden as ants are just taking over and farming both green & black fly everywhere
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Hung washing out in my dressing gown at 9.00am and didn't go back into the house until 12.00
took a lot out of the cold frame and planted them in the ground...dahlias/antirhinnums/cosmos. Pruned baggesens gold/ thinned out beetroot ....all in my dressing-gown
some things are just too enjoyable to interrupt by getting dressed 
Dry and sunny here but only 22C so excellent for gardening. I've cleared away unwanted pink geraniums that are proving just a bit too happy and invasive along with loads of spent forget-me-not. Found some bindweed trying to emerge in sneaky places and have scattered the weedlings on the lawn to dry out thoroughly before they end up on the compost heap.
Planted out my new penstemon Sour Grapes and geum Mai Thai and potentilla sanguineum but found the soil really dry down several inches so now I've got the sprinkler on as I need to carry on shifting unwanted geraniums and some comfrey in another patch tomorrow.
you're my kind of girl gareninglily1
i went out for my coffee and a shmoke at 9am and didn't come back in till 5.30pm
i took down my temporary trellis gate i have been using as a support for two clematis, then my husband put up my three large trellises, need to move my justa clematis so i did, it seems ok atm but the worst is i will heve to cut it back but it has had two watering cans in the course of today so fingers crossed. found some more campanulas canterbury bells, thought i'd planted them all so a bonus, gave the garden a good soaking this morning, threw away my compost bin contents into the brown bin as i had mixed in all the leaf miner leaves and plants by accident and as my compost bin doesn't create heat i was worried i would infect the garden again next year
it was almost compost too, i'm gutted but there you go.
Gardening over housework any day sanjy
hope your clematis survives the move - I'm always moving things around and 99% it's ok. I'm looking at moving a cordyline at the moment...it's just got too big and looks out of place.
well i have experience of that as it happens
we moved an 18ft one in november/dec cutting twoft off it as it took 5 men to lift it in to new position, my husband spent a whole day digging it out carefully as to not break the tap root which goes down quite a long way......... it is virtually bald now, in hindsight i wish i new then to seal the wound with wax so water didn't get in it but we are going to leave it til nest year and see if it sprout new shoots after the shock of being moved, i'd say ours had been planted from a small plant bought at a market for about 10 years, we had to move it anyway as the garage was going where it was.
WillDB - Thalictrum delavayi is one of my favourite summer flowering perennials. I have the double white growing in a border which is shaded from about 2pm onwards. It's a pretty bit of cooling white froth at the height of summer.
My cordyline grew to maturity, split into two,flowered and then got snapped off in a storm.
Then it grew from the base and now has too many heads to count (5 or 6) and is half as tall already
i have a multi headed one wintersong and it was taking up to much width so i cut 4 off but sealed the wounds with candle wax.
today i have cut down a lot of the bamboo so have lots of canes and the green one i cut down i have bent lots of them into hoops held with wire to keep them in shape to dry out ready for use in holding up tall plants
i hade some damp newspaper traps with rotting banana skin in them for the woodlice (hopefully) so i will check them in the morning, Have resorted to using ant powder in one part of the garden as ants are just taking over and farming both green & black fly everywhere 