Just been sowing seeds this morning, as it is just a little rough here today for outdoor gardening. Hoping for a dry w/end but I think I will be hoping in vain.
GWRS our GC does have a very good cafe/restaurant, in fact there were very few people in the plant department which is how it all started off, but the cafe was full.
I've been continuing with removing turf and digging over the trenches to plant a hornbeam hedge around a new area under development. It's going to be a sort of 'woodland glade' but in my tiny garden that amounts to an area 30' x 15'! The 50 hornbeam plants are all heeled in, in an empty veg bed at the moment so I'd like to get them planted within the next week or two - if my back can take it. When I need a break from digging the trenches I'm planting snowdrops in the same area, underneath a silver birch. Hoping that will look really pretty next spring.
Not done much in the garden today. I'm still pondering on a new scheme for the front garden so have new plants dotted around while I wait for inspiration...
Looked for signs of spring. One of the few good things about working all week is the noticeable growth in the garden! My established eremurus have appeared, newer ones not, more bulbs appeared and some tough perennials showing young growth. Tied a rambling rose in and rescued a tray of wallflowers that the birds have been meddling with.
Sowed some seeds, just for fun really, a free pack of sempervivum and a 'zombie farm' I got for Xmas? Some aubrieta have germinated that I sowed the other week, only tiddly at the mo.
Saw some blue tits doing something to my mahonia flowers today, do they eat the centres does anyone know? I couldn't see anything on the plant to give a clue?
Did some pottering today, the best day for it so far this year and I kind of got back in the zone.
Weeded a bit of the lawn and the triangle bed and transplanted some tufts of nice looking grass out the borders into the bare patches. Dug some lumps of grass out the lawn that I think might be a marshland deschampsia and I put them on the sunny side of the pond.
Moved some bits and bobs around, including swapping planting spaces for an astilbe I had in the sun and a daylily in the shade Put the astilbe on the shady pond side, a nice bistort is now required to go next to it. I don't know why I keep the daylilies as I don't really like them but I hacked this clump in half and replanted.
Remembered I'd put the bogside path over a lupin I want for the front garden, lifted the path and dug it up, forgot about it twice and when I went to retrieve it from the path I stood on it. Potted it up anyway?
Moved a couple of achillea from one side of the front garden to the other to try and even it up, one side is all lupin and the other achillea and they seem to always fail when swapped over. Don't know why, it's all claybased clag, I wouldn't have thought either would be happy but there you go
I know what you mean about getting in the zone Victoria Sponge. Have just come in from the garden. Spent the day tidying out and cleaning the greenhouse, sowed some sweet peas, dug up the last of the carrots and dug in some potash from the fire.
felt rather guilty about displacing a few spiders!
Plant labels in the dish washer to see if that'll clean off the pencil for me.
Not much at all. I bought some seed compost and filled two trays. I bought a pieris with deep pink flowers and a deep red sedum half price on the "Search and Rescue" table in a Strikes GC.
An assistant said that the plants were due to start coming in in a couple of weeks.
Also seeds of a new variety of Amaranthus with deep pinkyred flowers . The packet is in my wendy house and I am not going out there now to look.
What an industrious lot you are - no gardening done here today due to the rough weather, unless you count walking along the wind battered beaches looking for drift wood to use as garden adornments. I only found three tiny pieces of wood that would need a pair of binoculars to be able to find them among all the other bits of tat in our garden..
Too rainy, squally, haily here? Garden seems to be a few weeks behind last year, I had hellebores flowering and the odd iris rectic...
Lobelia I sowed 3 weeks ago has just appeared, and a couple more aubrieta showing. Think I've decided on a new theme for the front, lupins, helenium, monarda and hesperantha. Pretty much what's already there, I suppose, but rejigged
Wandered up to the 'lotment, butt is now filled (Vic's diy guttering working, yippee) so will attach the second butt when I'm next off work.
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Just been sowing seeds this morning, as it is just a little rough here today for outdoor gardening. Hoping for a dry w/end but I think I will be hoping in vain.
GWRS our GC does have a very good cafe/restaurant, in fact there were very few people in the plant department which is how it all started off, but the cafe was full.
I've been continuing with removing turf and digging over the trenches to plant a hornbeam hedge around a new area under development. It's going to be a sort of 'woodland glade' but in my tiny garden that amounts to an area 30' x 15'! The 50 hornbeam plants are all heeled in, in an empty veg bed at the moment so I'd like to get them planted within the next week or two - if my back can take it. When I need a break from digging the trenches I'm planting snowdrops in the same area, underneath a silver birch. Hoping that will look really pretty next spring.
Not done much in the garden today. I'm still pondering on a new scheme for the front garden so have new plants dotted around while I wait for inspiration...
Looked for signs of spring. One of the few good things about working all week is the noticeable growth in the garden! My established eremurus have appeared, newer ones not, more bulbs appeared and some tough perennials showing young growth. Tied a rambling rose in and rescued a tray of wallflowers that the birds have been meddling with.
Sowed some seeds, just for fun really, a free pack of sempervivum and a 'zombie farm' I got for Xmas? Some aubrieta have germinated that I sowed the other week, only tiddly at the mo.
Saw some blue tits doing something to my mahonia flowers today, do they eat the centres does anyone know? I couldn't see anything on the plant to give a clue?
Last edited: 04 February 2017 16:27:05
Did some pottering today, the best day for it so far this year and I kind of got back in the zone.
Weeded a bit of the lawn and the triangle bed and transplanted some tufts of nice looking grass out the borders into the bare patches. Dug some lumps of grass out the lawn that I think might be a marshland deschampsia and I put them on the sunny side of the pond.
Moved some bits and bobs around, including swapping planting spaces for an astilbe I had in the sun and a daylily in the shade
Put the astilbe on the shady pond side, a nice bistort is now required to go next to it. I don't know why I keep the daylilies as I don't really like them but I hacked this clump in half and replanted.
Remembered I'd put the bogside path over a lupin I want for the front garden, lifted the path and dug it up, forgot about it twice and when I went to retrieve it from the path I stood on it. Potted it up anyway?
Moved a couple of achillea from one side of the front garden to the other to try and even it up, one side is all lupin and the other achillea and they seem to always fail when swapped over. Don't know why, it's all claybased clag, I wouldn't have thought either would be happy but there you go
I know what you mean about getting in the zone Victoria Sponge. Have just come in from the garden. Spent the day tidying out and cleaning the greenhouse, sowed some sweet peas, dug up the last of the carrots and dug in some potash from the fire.
felt rather guilty about displacing a few spiders!
Plant labels in the dish washer to see if that'll clean off the pencil for me.
Now defrosting my hands around a nice cuppa.
I have been weeding pots with miniature daffs in plus bit of tidying nice and sunny today but cold
I have been weeding pots with miniature daffs in also tidying up greenhouse been nice and sunny but cold nice to get out in garden
Not much at all. I bought some seed compost and filled two trays. I bought a pieris with deep pink flowers and a deep red sedum half price on the "Search and Rescue" table in a Strikes GC.
An assistant said that the plants were due to start coming in in a couple of weeks.
Also seeds of a new variety of Amaranthus with deep pinkyred flowers . The packet is in my wendy house and I am not going out there now to look.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
What an industrious lot you are - no gardening done here today due to the rough weather, unless you count walking along the wind battered beaches looking for drift wood to use as garden adornments. I only found three tiny pieces of wood that would need a pair of binoculars to be able to find them among all the other bits of tat in our garden..
Too rainy, squally, haily here? Garden seems to be a few weeks behind last year, I had hellebores flowering and the odd iris rectic...
Lobelia I sowed 3 weeks ago has just appeared, and a couple more aubrieta showing. Think I've decided on a new theme for the front, lupins, helenium, monarda and hesperantha. Pretty much what's already there, I suppose, but rejigged
Wandered up to the 'lotment, butt is now filled (Vic's diy guttering working, yippee
) so will attach the second butt when I'm next off work.
Last edited: 12 February 2017 14:07:53