So glad so many charitable gardeners are giving needy plants and bulbs a home!
I cleared a large part of my gorilla gardening area, moved some plants into it from my borders, pulled out all the tomato plants from the greenhouse, dug up the spuds and picked the last of the peppers.
Then went indoors to make some tomato sauce as well as lots of stewed apple to freeze for winter crumbles courtesy of my kind neighbour bringing two huge bags of windfalls around.
I have the white marsh marigold Jo. Not sure it will spread as well as the common yellow one but it's pretty. I have it next to the corkscrew rush
I did a lot today - mostly tidying, pruning and weeding, but also did some painting, and a bit of tweaking and footering too. Got my Fatsia planted as it was suffering in it's pot. That was a bit of an effort - pickaxe needed for the rocks and hardcore underneath, and loppers for tree roots. Good job the sun had gone and it was cool!
Fixed my front gate after charging 'my' drill too RB. The power tools have always been my territory - no matter who I've shared my home with
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
spent nearly the whole day on the lawn, removing quite large parts of turf I didnt deem good enough and reseeding, and trying to level parts which takes ages it gets really tedious after a while.
Moved the barrel with the canna in next to the house to shelter from tomorrows weather.
And picked my first bunch of grapes pity about the seed pips though.
Runny - it's an area of land that is by the side of the private road to our house. I own it with two others. It's just a long thin strip next to a field so it is full of weeds but i am trying to tame it. Have got rhubarb, raspberries and gooseberries in it and now some shrubs. Have also got holes in my gardening gloves, dirty nails and a few cuts and bruises as a result!
My dad has given me his old tool box (he has a garage full) and I love it. It's contents are largely a mystery to me, but they have come to the rescue on numerous occasions!
Haven't done much today, had to go in to work for a few hours and it messed with my flow
Picked through the pond gunk bucket, saved some snails, hornwort, leeches and some pebbles that had become completely swallowed up by mint root.
Found some flowers on my pear tree - weirdo and ordered some seeds in chilterns sale. Seems a bit joyless to order seeds at bulb time but some are for immediate sowing.
Another day off tomorrow and I'm expecting my last bulb consignment - whoop!
Yesterday was my favourite autumn plant fair so OH and I went there for a gander and some lunch. Was very restrained with my buying - 3 heuchera Georgia Plum and 3 persicaria amplexicaulis Amethyst, 35 Thalia daffs, 30 nectaroscordums and 15 leucojum bulbs.
Today I've planted the heuchera in a sunny sheltered spot at the front and then forked over a bit of cleared bed near the pond and planted out some large, double orange hemerocallis given me by a friend and some filipendulas lifted from another bed. They can spread as much as they like as long as they doen't swamp the new persicarias which I've planted in front along with some foxgloves and silver leaved pulmonarias I have saved from other beds. Stuck some of the Thalia daffs in between and then had to come in and clean up for a committee meeting.
Rain arrived as forecast at about 7pm and is due to stay for teh rest of this week so I shall do things like potting on of seedlings and clearing of old toms in the greenhouse and my patchwork class homework.
Really like the idea of a white marsh marigold. Must look out for those.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Weather wasn't conducive to gardening today was too warm and too cold separately and I got steadily soggier. Good day for moving plants though
Moved a grass, Veronicastrum, vernonia and Veronicas also a hesperantha and an Eryngium Yuccifolium, both flowering and very heavy and awkward. Also moved a Virburnum Bod for the millionth time
Planted 30 odd bulbs including some eremurus starfish - freaky aliens Broken the back of the bulb planting now, less than 300 to go. Sowed some seeds in pots and directly.
Still got the wasps/bees (wees) in the chimney, I noticed in a passing dry spell. Starting to suspect them of being honeybees now.
i got home to find that my mum and dad had been around. The house is full of vases of lovely cut flowers from the garden, the ironing is done, everywhere has been hoovered and my tea was all ready to just turn the cooker on. I am very very very lucky. They know how to make a house a home.
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So glad so many charitable gardeners are giving needy plants and bulbs a home!
I cleared a large part of my gorilla gardening area, moved some plants into it from my borders, pulled out all the tomato plants from the greenhouse, dug up the spuds and picked the last of the peppers.
Then went indoors to make some tomato sauce as well as lots of stewed apple to freeze for winter crumbles courtesy of my kind neighbour bringing two huge bags of windfalls around.
I have the white marsh marigold Jo. Not sure it will spread as well as the common yellow one but it's pretty. I have it next to the corkscrew rush
I did a lot today - mostly tidying, pruning and weeding, but also did some painting, and a bit of tweaking and footering too. Got my Fatsia planted as it was suffering in it's pot. That was a bit of an effort - pickaxe needed for the rocks and hardcore underneath, and loppers for tree roots. Good job the sun had gone and it was cool!
Fixed my front gate after charging 'my' drill too RB. The power tools have always been my territory - no matter who I've shared my home with
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
spent nearly the whole day on the lawn, removing quite large parts of turf I didnt deem good enough and reseeding, and trying to level parts which takes ages it gets really tedious after a while.
Moved the barrel with the canna in next to the house to shelter from tomorrows weather.
And picked my first bunch of grapes
pity about the seed pips though.
Runny - it's an area of land that is by the side of the private road to our house. I own it with two others. It's just a long thin strip next to a field so it is full of weeds but i am trying to tame it. Have got rhubarb, raspberries and gooseberries in it and now some shrubs. Have also got holes in my gardening gloves, dirty nails and a few cuts and bruises as a result!
My dad has given me his old tool box (he has a garage full) and I love it. It's contents are largely a mystery to me, but they have come to the rescue on numerous occasions!
Haven't done much today, had to go in to work for a few hours and it messed with my flow
Picked through the pond gunk bucket, saved some snails, hornwort, leeches
and some pebbles that had become completely swallowed up by mint root.
Found some flowers on my pear tree - weirdo
and ordered some seeds in chilterns sale. Seems a bit joyless to order seeds at bulb time but some are for immediate sowing.
Another day off tomorrow and I'm expecting my last bulb consignment - whoop!
Hello all on holiday in Tenby so no Gardening but have bought some plants for the garden when WR get back next week
Holiday plants are great. Always a nice reminder of a trip.
It is bucketing it down here. Water butts will be full to the brim.
Yesterday was my favourite autumn plant fair so OH and I went there for a gander and some lunch. Was very restrained with my buying - 3 heuchera Georgia Plum and 3 persicaria amplexicaulis Amethyst, 35 Thalia daffs, 30 nectaroscordums and 15 leucojum bulbs.
Today I've planted the heuchera in a sunny sheltered spot at the front and then forked over a bit of cleared bed near the pond and planted out some large, double orange hemerocallis given me by a friend and some filipendulas lifted from another bed. They can spread as much as they like as long as they doen't swamp the new persicarias which I've planted in front along with some foxgloves and silver leaved pulmonarias I have saved from other beds. Stuck some of the Thalia daffs in between and then had to come in and clean up for a committee meeting.
Rain arrived as forecast at about 7pm and is due to stay for teh rest of this week so I shall do things like potting on of seedlings and clearing of old toms in the greenhouse and my patchwork class homework.
Really like the idea of a white marsh marigold. Must look out for those.
Weather wasn't conducive to gardening today
was too warm and too cold separately and I got steadily soggier. Good day for moving plants though
Moved a grass, Veronicastrum, vernonia and Veronicas also a hesperantha and an Eryngium Yuccifolium, both flowering and very heavy and awkward. Also moved a Virburnum Bod for the millionth time
Planted 30 odd bulbs including some eremurus starfish - freaky aliens
Broken the back of the bulb planting now, less than 300 to go. Sowed some seeds in pots and directly.
Still got the wasps/bees (wees
) in the chimney, I noticed in a passing dry spell. Starting to suspect them of being honeybees now.
wow Victoria- you have been busy!
i got home to find that my mum and dad had been around. The house is full of vases of lovely cut flowers from the garden, the ironing is done, everywhere has been hoovered and my tea was all ready to just turn the cooker on. I am very very very lucky. They know how to make a house a home.