Potted up some hellebore plug plants, had a furtle round the GH and got rid of some moss round my pulmonaria. Glad I did because it meant I noticed one of them is starting to flower
And Fidget - you'll be pleased to hear that Molly-in-a-bucket has thrown up new shoots.....very exciting
My hellebores haven't been that good so far. I think maybe it's because I over crowd in summer and that get completely covered. That said, I never feed them so maybe that's why.
what's Molly-in-a-bucket Chicky and Fidget? - sounds fascinating. Lots of buds on my hellebores but they are mainly very ordinary ones, white with red speckles, and shades of pink, but the two doubles I have are a bit slower into flower. So glad I raked off moss the other day, because the snowdrops are now appearing from the soil it was covering.
Today I used my extra-long-handled loppers to cut back the brambles & ivy in my neighbours field which grow through my fence every year to join the self seeded nettles & docks (again from her unmanaged field ) in my strawberry and nursery beds...
Then went to GC & bought 12 sacks of half-price MP compost which I will use to supplement my home produced compost as a mulch for my beds. Several days of shovelling coming up....
Oh - and moved some budding snowdrops from under a hedge to a couple of places where I can see them more easily. Meant to do that last spring but other stuff got in the way as it does
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Molly in a bucket is a Paeonia mlokosewitchsii also know as molly the witch, a single yellow species peony that I grew from seeds off of mine. I had some that I potted up into the buckets that florists use, and some were given away at one or other of the forum visits to gardens that we had last year. It must have looked quite strange,women with car boots full of plants swapping them around in the car park.
Various buddlejas, aquilegia seedlings also found new homes. At the "oddsocks " walk, some snowdrops and hellebores and brugmansia plants found new homes as well.
Now OH has a volvo estate instead of a vectra hatchback, theres lots more room for plant moving.
Today I bought some deep roottrainers for the sweet peas, using some vouchers I got given at Christmas.
I used up £15 of tesco vouchers, turned them into £45 of T&M vouchers, and ordered some lilies. Also I found out that Tesco think I have more vouchers than I think i have. I can print the missing ones off, once the new toner for the printer arrives.
I went to B&Q today to get some clips to secure the frame of a plastic GH and came away with 3 packets of module trays and a packet of growing pockets, fortunatly there were no plants in the nearly dead section.
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Potted up some hellebore plug plants, had a furtle round the GH and got rid of some moss round my pulmonaria. Glad I did because it meant I noticed one of them is starting to flower
And Fidget - you'll be pleased to hear that Molly-in-a-bucket has thrown up new shoots.....very exciting
I like molly shoots.
Nice dusky pink with a bit of dusty bloom.
Shouldn't it be in the ground now?
I had 10 hellebore plugs from T&M last year. 3 have flower buds, I have donated them to Mums revitalised flower bed. They should be doubles.
My hellebores haven't been that good so far. I think maybe it's because I over crowd in summer and that get completely covered. That said, I never feed them so maybe that's why.
what's Molly-in-a-bucket Chicky and Fidget? - sounds fascinating. Lots of buds on my hellebores but they are mainly very ordinary ones, white with red speckles, and shades of pink, but the two doubles I have are a bit slower into flower. So glad I raked off moss the other day, because the snowdrops are now appearing from the soil it was covering.
Today I used my extra-long-handled loppers to cut back the brambles & ivy in my neighbours field which grow through my fence every year to join the self seeded nettles & docks (again from her unmanaged field
) in my strawberry and nursery beds...
Then went to GC & bought 12 sacks of half-price MP compost which I will use to supplement my home produced compost as a mulch for my beds. Several days of shovelling coming up....
Oh - and moved some budding snowdrops from under a hedge to a couple of places where I can see them more easily. Meant to do that last spring but other stuff got in the way as it does
Cleared up the ivy cut back yesterday and backed it ready for a trip to the tip.
Edged the lawn
Planted Ornamental Cherry.
Admired the snowdrops and hellebores.
Molly in a bucket is a Paeonia mlokosewitchsii also know as molly the witch, a single yellow species peony that I grew from seeds off of mine. I had some that I potted up into the buckets that florists use, and some were given away at one or other of the forum visits to gardens that we had last year. It must have looked quite strange,women with car boots full of plants swapping them around in the car park.
Various buddlejas, aquilegia seedlings also found new homes. At the "oddsocks " walk, some snowdrops and hellebores and brugmansia plants found new homes as well.
Now OH has a volvo estate instead of a vectra hatchback, theres lots more room for plant moving.
Today I bought some deep roottrainers for the sweet peas, using some vouchers I got given at Christmas.
I used up £15 of tesco vouchers, turned them into £45 of T&M vouchers, and ordered some lilies. Also I found out that Tesco think I have more vouchers than I think i have. I can print the missing ones off, once the new toner for the printer arrives.
Fidget - Molly-in-a-bucket is in the ground ....but the name stuck
Its a lot easier than the species name thats for sure
I went to B&Q today to get some clips to secure the frame of a plastic GH and came away with 3 packets of module trays and a packet of growing pockets, fortunatly there were no plants in the nearly dead section
.