Beautiful day so managed to get in some pulsatilla and aubretia. I also dead-headed some daffies and trimmed off my cornus sibirica. It looks as though the 2 lilacs are going to be covered in blooms (both white) and the ribes ('Buffalo currant') with clove-scented yellow flowers is doing extremely well. However, the spirea should have been hard pruned last year (I do it every 2 years) and wasn't. so is now suffering for it; accordingly, it has been dealt with severely.
Went out into the front garden and saw that a friendly little rabbit that has took a shine to my garden has decided to nibble foxglove leaves & take a small newly planted euphorbia more or less down to a stump. It must have a masochistic streak!
I've opted for a course of action involving going out and making loud noises at the little blighter everytime I see him (or her) now until it decides our gardens a no go zone. Looks like an escaped pet - nobody seems to know who it belongs to though.
Spent some time rearranging plants in my new cold frame, plants in there from yesterday are looking good, checked on my tomatoes which are in pots outside up against the garage wall are looking good, a couple of leaves have a bit of damage from the cold evening but overall looking good, actually better than the ones in the warmth of my shed.
lupin I planted last year and flowered like mad, is looking very healthy, it will be moved into a border soon
Tootles..Re:Compost......I think there is a conspiracy theory in this somewhere! I used 3 bags yesterday, and will need more over the next few weeks. All I did was top up my potatoes and Dahlias and it disappeared! Does compost shrink??????
I made a critical error today, I went to the garden centre
All the plug plants have gone 50% off (Wyevale). The rest I think you can guess
Came out with 20+ plants which I've now potted on and am wondering exactly how I'm supposed to fit them in the greenhouse. I think the dahlias (which are still sleeping) may have to come inside and sit on the kitchen windowsill........ and the peppers on the windowsill will go........erm............ somewhere else
Dug up the remaining daffs because I don't want them in the beds anymore and just as well, they didn't flower this year because the bulbs were full of slugs :-/ Nice.
The azaleas are out which is very early for my garden and the aquilegias are just coming into flower. Dug out a new flower bed, widened an existing one, planted 30 perennials and dug up all the ground elder and bindweed.
Oh dear oh dear coveredinbees what were you thinking, this is exactly why I had to dig new beds today!
I got them all in Lou (even the dahlias) It's a bit like playing Tetris but with plants......
Only a couple of weeks and then stuff will start getting planted out (only to be replaced by the plants in the house), I guess that's when I'll realise I need to widen some beds
Went to the GC with OH and bought a load of rocks for the back of the pond and supervised their installation. Then OH dug more of the new sunny bed while I cut back some grasses in pots which are waiting for the sunny bed to be finished, and gazed lovingly at all the lovely flowers that are smiling back at me in the sunshine
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Beautiful day so managed to get in some pulsatilla and aubretia. I also dead-headed some daffies and trimmed off my cornus sibirica. It looks as though the 2 lilacs are going to be covered in blooms (both white) and the ribes ('Buffalo currant') with clove-scented yellow flowers is doing extremely well. However, the spirea should have been hard pruned last year (I do it every 2 years) and wasn't. so is now suffering for it; accordingly, it has been dealt with severely.
Went out into the front garden and saw that a friendly little rabbit that has took a shine to my garden has decided to nibble foxglove leaves & take a small newly planted euphorbia more or less down to a stump. It must have a masochistic streak!
I've opted for a course of action involving going out and making loud noises at the little blighter everytime I see him (or her) now until it decides our gardens a no go zone. Looks like an escaped pet - nobody seems to know who it belongs to though.
Spent some time rearranging plants in my new cold frame, plants in there from yesterday are looking good, checked on my tomatoes which are in pots outside up against the garage wall are looking good, a couple of leaves have a bit of damage from the cold evening but overall looking good, actually better than the ones in the warmth of my shed.
lupin I planted last year and flowered like mad, is looking very healthy, it will be moved into a border soon
just planted the last 20 rows of spuds going in shower now for a good back spray of our power shower only green house work now
Tootles..Re:Compost......I think there is a conspiracy theory in this somewhere! I used 3 bags yesterday, and will need more over the next few weeks. All I did was top up my potatoes and Dahlias and it disappeared! Does compost shrink??????
I made a critical error today, I went to the garden centre
All the plug plants have gone 50% off (Wyevale). The rest I think you can guess
Came out with 20+ plants which I've now potted on and am wondering exactly how I'm supposed to fit them in the greenhouse. I think the dahlias (which are still sleeping) may have to come inside and sit on the kitchen windowsill........ and the peppers on the windowsill will go........erm............ somewhere else
Dug up the remaining daffs because I don't want them in the beds anymore and just as well, they didn't flower this year because the bulbs were full of slugs :-/ Nice.
The azaleas are out which is very early for my garden and the aquilegias are just coming into flower. Dug out a new flower bed, widened an existing one, planted 30 perennials and dug up all the ground elder and bindweed.
Oh dear oh dear coveredinbees what were you thinking, this is exactly why I had to dig new beds today!
I got them all in Lou
(even the dahlias) It's a bit like playing Tetris but with plants......
Only a couple of weeks and then stuff will start getting planted out (only to be replaced by the plants in the house), I guess that's when I'll realise I need to widen some beds
Went to the GC with OH and bought a load of rocks for the back of the pond and supervised their installation. Then OH dug more of the new sunny bed while I cut back some grasses in pots which are waiting for the sunny bed to be finished, and gazed lovingly at all the lovely flowers that are smiling back at me in the sunshine
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.