Dug out a ceonothus badly affected by the winter and a hazel which was hiding behind it. Will replace in a few minutes with a greengage which has been lving in a large pot for a few years. The trees came out rather easily with all of the wet weather lately.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Got a few things done despite the constant rain. Planted around the pond with drumstick and candelabra primulas (now underwater 🌊 hopefully they'll be ok), waterproofed the hedgehog food box and unblocked the waterbutt downpipe attachment. Butts now all full😊
We had some sunshine after lunch! So I have at last planted Richard's Clematis Mandchurica. Tried to do it properly by the book this time and am so looking forward to seeing it flower later in the summer - if it survives. It's an unusual deciduous variety from China? and need it to grow to hide a gap in our hedge/fence. Fingers crossed!
Rain, Rain, Rain so gardening has stopped. It has rained so long over night that my lower boarders are flooded with 6" of water. Waiting for it to receed so I can fork in some copious amounts of manure and grit
Been wet here as well but it gave me time to catch up on my house stuff. Seed sowing tomorrow! Going to try modules this year rather than my trusty trays.
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
Dug up some crocosmia corms that had spread further than I had wanted. I had sunk the pot full of corms into the flower bed 2 years ago and now they were rooting into the surrounding soil. Chucked some out and repotted half a dozen. Dug up the castor oil plant that had died over the winter - I have sown some new castor oil beans in heated tray last week, I hope to get a repeat plant this year.
Bought 2 vincas "Gertrude Jekyll " and purple flowered one and planted those this pm after a very heavy rain shower (surprise!) . Went round doing a general tidy and weeding. One thing about all this rain, is it makes weeding easy ! It was quite warm in the sunshine,had to unzip the fleece .Now waiting for kettle to boil for much needed cup of tea.
Spurred on by the warmer weather today I transferred a bog plant to the pond - luckily I have new seedlings growing from this plant just in case it doesn't like the pond - Ragged Robin (white flower). Also sown some more flower seeds today including cosmos, honesty and zinnia.
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Got a few things done despite the constant rain. Planted around the pond with drumstick and candelabra primulas (now underwater 🌊 hopefully they'll be ok), waterproofed the hedgehog food box and unblocked the waterbutt downpipe attachment. Butts now all full😊