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  • SlumSlum Posts: 385

    Not a lot today. Removed a non-flowering rose sucker from a lawn and made a small bed where it was. I piled some homemade compost on top to improve the soil for spring planting. I'm sure plenty of weeds will appear. 

  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478

    Victoria, never heard of Yorkshire Fog , so goggled it , type of grass , learn something new everyday 

    Hoping to do a bit in garden over next 2 days 

    Noticed grass still growing , do I cut or not ? 

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  • TootlesTootles Posts: 1,469

    I opened up last years bin liner of leaves and delighted to see I have leaf mould for the first time! Not much so will make more of an effort to collect leaves this year.

    Mum and dad bought around a lovely large terracotta pot large enough to plant up a version of Monty's winter pot. I chose a green and silver grass rather than a black one though. Very pleased with it as my winter pots generally consist of a little fir and some pansies and the nice silver leafed plant. 

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  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783

    Very nice! :)

  • Yorkshire Fog is a wonderful grass GWRS, pink flowers that turn sort of gold. Someone kindly sent me seeds on the swap thread. I cut it back in summer and it grew up lush and flowered againimage

    Did further pond edge prep today, more moving of plants so I have the area clear for the lawn extension going up to the pond edge.

    Ripped apart a persicaria and an inula hookeri that had welded themselves together. Ended up with 3 pieces of each and a mixed clump which I planted with the persicaria.

    Had some inspiration for the border on the side of the driveway. It's been pink for years, now is going to be orangey-brown and maroon, embellished with lambs ear, solving my too many heleniums problem and trip-hazardy potentilla issue.

    I've abandoned it for now, lost sight of the end goal. There are dug up plants sat around everywhereimage

    Wearside, England.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,087

    Gardening club plant swap tomorrow so I have potted up some spares.  Not a lot as this is a new garden and most of my treasures are still in pots after the move because we're in our 16 month of well below average rainfall and can't make their new beds yet. 

    Despite that, the acidanthera, white chives and ginger mint have happily increased enough to be divided with some to spare and there are enough sternbergia lutea in the garden for me to spare some - autumn daffs and very lovely.  I took cuttings of other stuff but they won't be ready till the spring swap.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783

    Trimmed the cotoneaster

    Moved the Cherry tree, Cherry laurel saplings and mystery bulbs.

    'Lifted" a Dahlia and boxed it

    Weeded around the pansies

    Rehomed a worm and a caterpillar

    Fed the robin

    Stripped leaves another batch of vine and laurel ready to compost

    Replanted some wild flowers I'd taken out a month ago

  • I took out most of an ugly raised bed in the garden to reduce the height and to make space for a pond.

    Got rid of a load of rubble and old concrete path and made a huge pile of good soil from the bed I can use to level the area off with before turfing.

    It's been a heck of a project but I have gradually got rid of more and more concrete, slabs and sandstone from the garden and planted up, turfed and created soft features that are much more pleasing to the eye. I've an eye operation next week, but as soon as I'm well enough I'll be going to the tip with 2 1/2 tonnes of rubble and slabs on the trailer and will finally be able to see the lovely space I'm creating behind the piles of the stuff!

  • That sounds like a project and a half glasgowdan...

    I wasnt in the mood to garden today. Picked up some manure to back fill some potholes from lifting large   plants, also used it to level a temporary stepping stone path while I reposition the beds.

    Forced myself to replant some stuff I'd lifted but have no idea where to put. Dug a couple of mass planting holes and crammed what I could in them. I have no inspiration on how to plant up the narrow fence border; have loads of plants but I'm fairly certain I don't want them together.

    Planted a new rose I had delivered yesterday, properly and shoved another one in a random space as it required moving another rose and it's too windy and the soil is too dry.

    Wearside, England.
  • SlumSlum Posts: 385

    I've done a bit of pottering about this week-end rather than any big jobs. Emptied a leaf mould container of 2 year old leaf mould and started piling fresh leaves in. I've not decided yet what to do with the leaf mould. It somehow seems precious after the amount of leaves I had to collect to make it and the fact it took 2 years. I have also moved some of my young perennials that are in small pots into the greenhouse for the winter. I checked as well I could for snails and slugs but I'm sure I'll find more over the coming weeks. My pelargoniums and bergonia are also now tucked up in the greenhouse. All the dahlia tubers which I lifted a couple of weeks ago are now potted up in dryish compost in the garage.

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