Went in to my garden at 12.30pm today. Dug and transferred a Sambucus Nigra Black Lace from a area that had become a very shady area. This appeared to effect the growth of the shrub. It was easier to move it to a more open space than improve the light to that area of the garden. Cut back some over grown branches off a Damson tree.
Sat in my GH and put on the heater and read a good book for an hour but then ended cleaning down the glass so not a relaxing hour spent
Hostafan - the garden is very large and I've developed it from nothing over many many years, but I now find it too much to cope with. An opportunity has come up to sell the end part - too good an opportunity to miss especially as I can then help grandchildren through their university education. I know the developer will bulldoze the plot so I'm taking everything possible, including the soil, much enriched over many years, before he gets going on it. Somethings I just have to accept cannot be saved.
Sometimes advancing years just get the better of us and we have been unable to find a garden with a smaller house - the only smaller houses seem to have that awful thing the "manageable courtyard garden". I can survive happily with the smaller house, but not without a decent chunk of garden.
I do think you are doing the sensible thing and it will at least mean you get to stay in your existing home and most of your garden. It will be exciting to re-plan that to find room for all the plants you are moving - I just love re-arranging the garden and often dig up and move plants around.
Thank you all for your encouraging words - I'm beginning to look forward to re-arranging the garden into a more manageable formula...but I still need a veg patch....somewhere. Life would be unthinkable without fresh runner beans.
Had the day off today and luckily the weather was pretty good so got a lot done.
Dug up about 20 summer raspberry canes which have been slowly encroaching into my veg plot over the last few years. Did the same with some blackberry canes which had popped-up in the middle of some gooseberry bushes and also gave the gooseberries a good prune. Potted about 600 bulbs which I got on various special offers for next to nothing, including alliums, parrot tulips, iris, ioxa and anemones. Cleared the greenhouse of about 20 dead tomato vines and put the pots of bulbs in there which should help speed them along after being planted so late. Cleared a dozen sweet pepper plants and spread the spent compost on the borders, weeding as I went.
Bit tired now!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
No proper gardening done *sigh*...Want to move some shrubs around but has been too windy for the past few weekends and today it snowed...partly good because it has covered the muddy tangle of dead sticks which is my garden at present.
Desnowed the bird bath and opened a delivery with some trellis in...found it wasn't enough to cheer me so retreated indoors and made a few plant orders online, some for now, some for Spring delivery (probably best) Need tonnes of flowers next year to improve the front garden and for my precious chimney bees.
gardening granny, hope all goes well with your garden rearrangements
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Went in to my garden at 12.30pm today. Dug and transferred a Sambucus Nigra Black Lace from a area that had become a very shady area. This appeared to effect the growth of the shrub. It was easier to move it to a more open space than improve the light to that area of the garden. Cut back some over grown branches off a Damson tree.
Sat in my GH and put on the heater and read a good book for an hour but then ended cleaning down the glass so not a relaxing hour spent
Hostafan - the garden is very large and I've developed it from nothing over many many years, but I now find it too much to cope with. An opportunity has come up to sell the end part - too good an opportunity to miss especially as I can then help grandchildren through their university education. I know the developer will bulldoze the plot so I'm taking everything possible, including the soil, much enriched over many years, before he gets going on it. Somethings I just have to accept cannot be saved.
Sometimes advancing years just get the better of us and we have been unable to find a garden with a smaller house - the only smaller houses seem to have that awful thing the "manageable courtyard garden". I can survive happily with the smaller house, but not without a decent chunk of garden.
Gardening Granny , sounds a very desent thing that you are doing
Gardening Granny,
I do think you are doing the sensible thing and it will at least mean you get to stay in your existing home and most of your garden. It will be exciting to re-plan that to find room for all the plants you are moving - I just love re-arranging the garden and often dig up and move plants around.
Good luck with the moving.
Thank you all for your encouraging words - I'm beginning to look forward to re-arranging the garden into a more manageable formula...but I still need a veg patch....somewhere. Life would be unthinkable without fresh runner beans.
Had the day off today and luckily the weather was pretty good so got a lot done.
Dug up about 20 summer raspberry canes which have been slowly encroaching into my veg plot over the last few years. Did the same with some blackberry canes which had popped-up in the middle of some gooseberry bushes and also gave the gooseberries a good prune. Potted about 600 bulbs which I got on various special offers for next to nothing, including alliums, parrot tulips, iris, ioxa and anemones. Cleared the greenhouse of about 20 dead tomato vines and put the pots of bulbs in there which should help speed them along after being planted so late. Cleared a dozen sweet pepper plants and spread the spent compost on the borders, weeding as I went.
Bit tired now!
Deadheaded a pansy on my way to the shops
Bob the Gardener , sounds like you had a really productive day
Need to sort my " rasberry forest " out next year
No proper gardening done
*sigh*...Want to move some shrubs around but has been too windy for the past few weekends and today it snowed...partly good because it has covered the muddy tangle of dead sticks which is my garden at present.
Desnowed the bird bath and opened a delivery with some trellis in
...found it wasn't enough to cheer me so retreated indoors and made a few plant orders online, some for now, some for Spring delivery (probably best)
Need tonnes of flowers next year to improve the front garden and for my precious chimney bees.
gardening granny, hope all goes well with your garden rearrangements