No proper gardening but ordered some seeds, mostly sweet peas, cosmos and nasturtium, the usual Chiltern have a sale on if anyone's interested, I think the code was sale17 but it's on their website anyway.
Ordered some plants as a present for self. I'm extending a rubbish border in front of a hedge and decided geranium phaeum and hellebore were the way to go. Also my geranium mayflower which I just discovered is a wood geranium, not a baked in the dry sun type.
Did some unplanning of the winter plant movearound required due to wanting to extend my lawn up to the pond. With a bit of sorcery I think I can cram in a dozen new plants whilst only chucking two?
Also ordered two rhubarb crowns, raspberry red and an autumn one, Livingstone?
Asparagus GWRS? We used to harvest ours in April/May time. Perhaps your asparagus is a different type - I am intrigued?
No gardening today apart from the usual dead heading and collecting fallen apples due to the wind and drizzle all day. Not a good gardening day here and probably the same again tomorrow - we can hope for better.
Potted on very fast growing cuttings of Hydrangeas I took earlier in the year.
Lots of dead-heading of Dahlias and Cosmos, all still very floriferous. Fed sweetpeas, dahlias and sunflowers.
Planted out hollyhock plants, which grew much faster than I expected, they all have flower buds, does this mean they won't flower next year? First time growing them.
Emptied the wooden box at front door and refilled with fresh compost, it took practically the full 60Litre bag. Planted it up with Spring bulbs, pansies and cyclamen.
We planted up 6 new thornless loganberries and 6 thornless blackberries on a north facing wall, replacing logans that were almost forty years old and still producing but not so prolifically now.
Discussed the continuing preparation of a wall border, still undecided - boring hedge or perennial shrubs with a few small trees & bulbs in between.
planted up some dianthus, removing summer bedding from a couple of pots. A lasagne of bulbs, in a pot for next year, alliums,short lilies, daffodils. Also planted some in the new bed. Our arbour finnaly came on Tuesday, delivery men were rude to my Hubby, asked "whats up with you then" in sarky tone, he said he had just had an op to remove kidney stone, man said "Huh, you took the soft option, I PASSED mind last week", was rude about our garden. He has told me I am NOT to complain to store about them.
Now I understand GWRS, we always picked ours in May time so never saw it mature with berries. Sadly my OH dug them all out a couple of years ago - said they had got passed their best.
Today we sorted good and bruised apples (going to the pigs) and dug over new bed again, still finding darn agapanthus roots and broken greenhouse glass from the 1987 hurricane era.
Enjoyed garden for an hour this afternoon, it is a glorious day here.
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No proper gardening but ordered some seeds, mostly sweet peas, cosmos and nasturtium, the usual
Chiltern have a sale on if anyone's interested, I think the code was sale17 but it's on their website anyway.
Ordered some plants as a present for self. I'm extending a rubbish border in front of a hedge and decided geranium phaeum and hellebore were the way to go. Also my geranium mayflower which I just discovered is a wood geranium, not a baked in the dry sun type.
Did some unplanning of the winter plant movearound required due to wanting to extend my lawn up to the pond. With a bit of sorcery I think I can cram in a dozen new plants whilst only chucking two?
Also ordered two rhubarb crowns, raspberry red and an autumn one, Livingstone?
Allotment today , did cut lawns yesterday and a bit if tidying up / dead heading
Hoping to cut asparagus down tomorrow afternoon
Happy gardening everybody
Asparagus GWRS? We used to harvest ours in April/May time. Perhaps your asparagus is a different type - I am intrigued?
No gardening today apart from the usual dead heading and collecting fallen apples due to the wind and drizzle all day. Not a good gardening day here and probably the same again tomorrow - we can hope for better.
Started digging up the bedding plants that are past their best and preparing the ground for Wallflowers and spring bulbs ie Daffs and Tulips
Potted on very fast growing cuttings of Hydrangeas I took earlier in the year.
Lots of dead-heading of Dahlias and Cosmos, all still very floriferous. Fed sweetpeas, dahlias and sunflowers.
Planted out hollyhock plants, which grew much faster than I expected, they all have flower buds, does this mean they won't flower next year? First time growing them.
Emptied the wooden box at front door and refilled with fresh compost, it took practically the full 60Litre bag. Planted it up with Spring bulbs, pansies and cyclamen.
A good productive day.
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We planted up 6 new thornless loganberries and 6 thornless blackberries on a north facing wall, replacing logans that were almost forty years old and still producing but not so prolifically now.
Discussed the continuing preparation of a wall border, still undecided - boring hedge or perennial shrubs with a few small trees & bulbs in between.
planted up some dianthus, removing summer bedding from a couple of pots. A lasagne of bulbs, in a pot for next year, alliums,short lilies, daffodils. Also planted some in the new bed. Our arbour finnaly came on Tuesday, delivery men were rude to my Hubby, asked "whats up with you then" in sarky tone, he said he had just had an op to remove kidney stone, man said "Huh, you took the soft option, I PASSED mind last week", was rude about our garden. He has told me I am NOT to complain to store about them.
Gurnesy D , asparagus , the 2 small beds in the garden we don’t eat but let it bush up , has nice red berries
however , when it goes brown I cut it down
At the allotment we have a large bed for cutting and eating in May / June
Keep doing little jobs in garden , o/h just cut blackberry stems down and some ivy
Now I understand GWRS, we always picked ours in May time so never saw it mature with berries. Sadly my OH dug them all out a couple of years ago - said they had got passed their best.
Today we sorted good and bruised apples (going to the pigs) and dug over new bed again, still finding darn agapanthus roots and broken greenhouse glass from the 1987 hurricane era.
Enjoyed garden for an hour this afternoon, it is a glorious day here.
No gardening yet, snow still on the ground. If it melts this afternoon, I will try and lift all my Dahlias and Cannas, get them in the GH to dry.