Gosh, that's good service hogweed. Are you pleased with how they look?
Sowed some hebe seeds today - not expecting any to germinate, so I hope I have a surprise. Tidied around some newly planted trees - grass had grown around them even though we cleared a good space when we planted them in the spring and summer. OH fetched some horse manure which he dug into the new border along with some leaves bagged last year so not completely broken down yet but better than nothing.
Planted out a bag of red onions, 5 cloves from 5 fat bulbs of garlic, a dozen winter lettuce and 6 each of Savoys and Romanesco. Then it got dark very quickly so they're being watered in with the sprinkler on a timer. Can't see to water by hand from the water butt.
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Very cold today and everything seems OK in the garden. Not saying Its totally great but like a lot of us it's getting to a time of year that everything in the garden is winding down
The only work I did was to cut back some overgrown folliage to an area that I want to have some part shade for the plants that I have there. Check on my perennials that I propagated in Autumn that seem to be putting on growth eventhough that goes against the temperature today
Got my act together today and sorted out a narrow border along my south facing fence. I'd moved out a load of potentillas as they were spilling onto the path and annoying me. Planted the 40 GW offer tulips plus another mix in similar colours, intermixed them with 50 odd allium purple sensation. Not sure if the planting is too narrow to look any good but we'll see. Planted penstemon, hesperantha and lupins towards the back, have ordered aubrieta plugs for the front. Also poked some anemone blanda here and there.
Was dreading planting some allium christophii, for some reason I thought I had loads, for a difficult border and I'm not sure I really like them. Turned out I only had 6, so uprooted some rudbeckia and planted these, some linaria and a few lumps of aconitum.
Oh also moved two clems and planted two I've had in pots for a while, I want to say they were snowburst and cloudburst but too similar to be right I think.?
Made an action plan for next weekend, got a few bags of allium sphaerocephalon to plant and the sunny side of the arbour border to replant.
Sound good VictoriaS, I like Christophii huge flower heads and they flower a little bit later than other varieties.
Not much gardening today it been snowing on and off over the past few days, its just melted this afternoon but it raining now still got a box of bulbs to plant.
Decided to store my dahlia tubers in the greenhouse border this year so did that this afternoon, need to tidy the GH its a tip.
Finally got a small fire going and burned the diseased plants and weeds, and some more cherry laurel.
more leaves into the leaf pile.
More ivy and laurel leaves into the compost.
About four hours out there, and still only a dent in the ivy/laurel pile. And now have a mountain of leafless vines and branches you could hide a small elephant in.
Thankfully we did out gardening this morning, before the deluge of rain and strong winds hit the island.
We shredded 4 large black sacks of wood chip from the pruning we did last week and there will be another couple of bags worth to do on another day. The wood was a mix of oak, weeping beech and willow, plum, cherry and some sycamore. I will be spreading this wood chip on the large flower bed over the winter to suppress next year's weeds.
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My new roses arrived yesterday - only ordered them on Monday afternoon. Very excited!
Gosh, that's good service hogweed. Are you pleased with how they look?
Sowed some hebe seeds today - not expecting any to germinate, so I hope I have a surprise. Tidied around some newly planted trees - grass had grown around them even though we cleared a good space when we planted them in the spring and summer. OH fetched some horse manure which he dug into the new border along with some leaves bagged last year so not completely broken down yet but better than nothing.
Planted out a bag of red onions, 5 cloves from 5 fat bulbs of garlic, a dozen winter lettuce and 6 each of Savoys and Romanesco. Then it got dark very quickly so they're being watered in with the sprinkler on a timer. Can't see to water by hand from the water butt.
Froast and ice this morning so no plant work.
Daughter broke up the ice on the bird bath
We hung a bird feeder on the swing
Stripped remained of Ivy off two fence panels
cardboard and soil/grass clumps into compost heap
Apples distributed onto lawn
Cleaned windows very poorly, will try again tomorrow!
Very cold today and everything seems OK in the garden. Not saying Its totally great but like a lot of us it's getting to a time of year that everything in the garden is winding down
The only work I did was to cut back some overgrown folliage to an area that I want to have some part shade for the plants that I have there. Check on my perennials that I propagated in Autumn that seem to be putting on growth eventhough that goes against the temperature today
Got my act together today and sorted out a narrow border along my south facing fence. I'd moved out a load of potentillas as they were spilling onto the path and annoying me. Planted the 40 GW offer tulips plus another mix in similar colours, intermixed them with 50 odd allium purple sensation. Not sure if the planting is too narrow to look any good but we'll see.
Planted penstemon, hesperantha and lupins towards the back, have ordered aubrieta plugs for the front. Also poked some anemone blanda here and there.
Was dreading planting some allium christophii, for some reason I thought I had loads, for a difficult border and I'm not sure I really like them. Turned out I only had 6, so uprooted some rudbeckia and planted these, some linaria and a few lumps of aconitum.
Oh also moved two clems and planted two I've had in pots for a while, I want to say they were snowburst and cloudburst but too similar to be right I think.?
Made an action plan for next weekend, got a few bags of allium sphaerocephalon to plant and the sunny side of the arbour border to replant.
Sound good VictoriaS, I like Christophii huge flower heads and they flower a little bit later than other varieties.
Not much gardening today it been snowing on and off over the past few days, its just melted this afternoon but it raining now
still got a box of bulbs to plant.
Decided to store my dahlia tubers in the greenhouse border this year so did that this afternoon, need to tidy the GH its a tip.
Finally got a small fire going and burned the diseased plants and weeds, and some more cherry laurel.
more leaves into the leaf pile.
More ivy and laurel leaves into the compost.
About four hours out there, and still only a dent in the ivy/laurel pile. And now have a mountain of leafless vines and branches you could hide a small elephant in.
None at all. It was very wet hearabouts The ground is squelching.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
Thankfully we did out gardening this morning, before the deluge of rain and strong winds hit the island.
We shredded 4 large black sacks of wood chip from the pruning we did last week and there will be another couple of bags worth to do on another day. The wood was a mix of oak, weeping beech and willow, plum, cherry and some sycamore. I will be spreading this wood chip on the large flower bed over the winter to suppress next year's weeds.