Finished pruning one of the Bottle Brush trees/shrub, pottered around tidying around digger & skip, filled another bin bag of fallen leaves and planted another bright red cyclamen to give colour over the next few months.
This is the bog area from this year. It's not really a bog, part of it is my pond and extended area of liner and the rest is waterlogged in winter, maybe because my neighbours garden is paved, but dries out in summer.
Although it looks alright here (I think) it ended up a bit mad and unmanageable so I'm in the process of making a path through it.
I bought the drumstick prims from Parkers. I tried growing them from seed but the birds kicked the pots over. They are dying back but are decent little plants.
Lovely garden Victoria Sponge - nicely planted - looks interesting too. Do the drumstick primula plants die down in winter or is it an evergreen. I saw them in the Parkers catalogue - but you had to order 30 or some other large number - where do you put them all - or perhaps share with a friend?
Did some more of the blackberries,wondering what I'm going to do with everything I've cut off. The 3 compost bins are full and also the dust bin. I might put it in a pile at the back of the blackberries for the bugs.
I want to say the prims die back? Pretty certain they do...
I bought a six pack from Parkers but only because I was buying bulbs at the same time. I've also used peninsula primulas several times in the past, just they were out of stock last time I thought to look.
It is gorgeous Victoria. I bought some "bog" plants, Umbrella Plants, small Gunera, we have a bit down the bottom which gets waterlogged, but Hubby dug another bed (I wanted grasses,Rudbeckias etc, some late colour in a dry bed, so the soil from that is now piled up where I intend the bog to be! What are peninsula primulas? Logan, blackberries Hum!! Yes they are back hanging over from next door!!
Lovelly garden Loana, does everyone think other peoples gardens look far nicer than ones own, maybe the grass really IS greener haha!!! Mine has to suffer female dog, and thi weeks rain has been the first for so long. I dont waste water an time trying to water the grass, got 5 water butts, 3 greenhouses, over 100 pots. Got told off by Hubby favorite Azalea looks dead, its behind other shrubs, I didnt see it to water it, might have to buy him a couple more for Christmas!
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Finished pruning one of the Bottle Brush trees/shrub, pottered around tidying around digger & skip, filled another bin bag of fallen leaves and planted another bright red cyclamen to give colour over the next few months.
Hi Logan, thank you for that tip
Hi GD
This is the bog area from this year. It's not really a bog, part of it is my pond and extended area of liner and the rest is waterlogged in winter, maybe because my neighbours garden is paved, but dries out in summer.
Although it looks alright here (I think) it ended up a bit mad and unmanageable so I'm in the process of making a path through it.
I bought the drumstick prims from Parkers. I tried growing them from seed but the birds kicked the pots over. They are dying back but are decent little plants.
looking beautiful Victoria sponge, my dream of a perfect garden ?
Lovely garden Victoria Sponge - nicely planted - looks interesting too. Do the drumstick primula plants die down in winter or is it an evergreen. I saw them in the Parkers catalogue - but you had to order 30 or some other large number - where do you put them all - or perhaps share with a friend?
Did some more of the blackberries,wondering what I'm going to do with everything I've cut off. The 3 compost bins are full and also the dust bin. I might put it in a pile at the back of the blackberries for the bugs.
Thanks for your nice comments Beaus Mum and GD
I want to say the prims die back? Pretty certain they do...
I bought a six pack from Parkers but only because I was buying bulbs at the same time. I've also used peninsula primulas several times in the past, just they were out of stock last time I thought to look.
It is gorgeous Victoria. I bought some "bog" plants, Umbrella Plants, small Gunera, we have a bit down the bottom which gets waterlogged, but Hubby dug another bed (I wanted grasses,Rudbeckias etc, some late colour in a dry bed, so the soil from that is now piled up where I intend the bog to be! What are peninsula primulas? Logan, blackberries Hum!! Yes they are back hanging over from next door!!
Lovelly garden Loana, does everyone think other peoples gardens look far nicer than ones own, maybe the grass really IS greener haha!!! Mine has to suffer female dog, and thi weeks rain has been the first for so long. I dont waste water an time trying to water the grass, got 5 water butts, 3 greenhouses, over 100 pots. Got told off by Hubby favorite Azalea looks dead, its behind other shrubs, I didnt see it to water it, might have to buy him a couple more for Christmas!
Tidied the cuttings I did yesterday. Dug up a hardy geranium so I could put a gooseberry in its place.