Spent an hour clearing leaves and cutting old foliage from hellebores yesterday. The hellebores have some buds but these are being nibbled Felt better for an hour of fresh air and exercise.
Today I've been volunteering in the café on the community farm across the road. I had a quick look around the farm garden. There are hellebores and primroses in flower and the bulbs I planted in the old water troughs are coming up. The brambles I covered them with seem to have kept the squirrels and foxes off so far. I hope the bulbs do not get waterlogged as I don't think there is any drainage in the troughs.
A splendid day for gardening, mild and not stupidly windy
Had a delivery of fine perennials this week which I unpacked today and planted half out. Only 2 were unplanned purchases and I found spaces for them. Also moved some things, two small buddleas (poss buzzes that survived my purge), a rose and some other bits and bobs. Weighed them down with bricks just in case the wind worsens.
Made a start making a base for a brick path, it got dark and hammered it down before I put any edge supports in - will check it out in the morrow, see if any part of it has slid into the pond
Done some Coleus sewing last monday...Grape Hyacinths coming on well indoors but was hoping they'd be ready for a centrepiece on the Christmas dinner table but left it too late..kept them in the fridge for 5 weeks not long enough really..needed double that time.
I hacked back a cotoneaster now that the blackbirds have had all the berries. Tidied up dead foliage in various places, and attached fairy lights to the rear fence
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I potted up a late bought cheap pack of dwarf daffs from T&M. Had to put them in pots as no spare ground left anywhere! I also moved a pot of gone over Nerines into the shed as well as a big begonia corm. Found a beautiful fat flower bud and new shoots on the Dr Ruppel clematis which obviously thinks its May or June, so goodness knows what will happen to it when and if it snows. The delphiniums are coming up as well. Still got pelargoniums in flower, roses, winter jasmine, winter clematis, lobelia, osteospernums and even small begonias. Lovely sunny morning here in Bath, about 10-12 degrees.
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Winter had definately arrived
Spent an hour clearing leaves and cutting old foliage from hellebores yesterday. The hellebores have some buds but these are being nibbled
Felt better for an hour of fresh air and exercise.
Today I've been volunteering in the café on the community farm across the road. I had a quick look around the farm garden. There are hellebores and primroses in flower and the bulbs I planted in the old water troughs are coming up. The brambles I covered them with seem to have kept the squirrels and foxes off so far. I hope the bulbs do not get waterlogged as I don't think there is any drainage in the troughs.
Back aching
A splendid day for gardening, mild and not stupidly windy
Had a delivery of fine perennials this week which I unpacked today and planted half out. Only 2 were unplanned purchases and I found spaces for them. Also moved some things, two small buddleas (poss buzzes that survived my purge), a rose and some other bits and bobs. Weighed them down with bricks just in case the wind worsens.
Made a start making a base for a brick path, it got dark and hammered it down before I put any edge supports in - will check it out in the morrow, see if any part of it has slid into the pond
Done some Coleus sewing last monday...Grape Hyacinths coming on well indoors but was hoping they'd be ready for a centrepiece on the Christmas dinner table but left it too late..kept them in the fridge for 5 weeks not long enough really..needed double that time.
However, they have taken over, and I have tried today to remove them, but roots resemble thick tree roots, exhausting.
Just attained a pack of 25 Nordman Fir seeds..lets see.
I hacked back a cotoneaster now that the blackbirds have had all the berries. Tidied up dead foliage in various places, and attached fairy lights to the rear fence
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I moved some purple toadflax
Even had to compost some cos it has self seeded everywhere...
I potted up a late bought cheap pack of dwarf daffs from T&M. Had to put them in pots as no spare ground left anywhere! I also moved a pot of gone over Nerines into the shed as well as a big begonia corm. Found a beautiful fat flower bud and new shoots on the Dr Ruppel clematis which obviously thinks its May or June, so goodness knows what will happen to it when and if it snows. The delphiniums are coming up as well. Still got pelargoniums in flower, roses, winter jasmine, winter clematis, lobelia, osteospernums and even small begonias. Lovely sunny morning here in Bath, about 10-12 degrees.