You are ahead of us Iain, leaves but no flowers yet although we do have grape hyacinths and narcissus in flower and our first camellias too.
We pruned Bramley apple tree today - well made a start, we will have to spend another hour on it later this year or early next. Planning to pile the cow manure around the fruit trees tomorrow or fairly soon. We had our best crop of apples ever (I am sure I say that every year - never weigh them as they ripen) after I had heaped manure around them last year - was that just co-incidence?
Oh yes only leaves on the daffs at the moment still nice to see though. It seems as though 2017 was a good year all round for Apples (& pears). The manure will have helped though. I also find that Rockdust or Remin as a top dressing is very good for all permanent fruit plantings.
Tried planting up a little bed under a window today, had a lot less space than I thought, despite measuring it and doing a few drawings? As a result I've lost inspiration again. Trouble is none of my surplus plants are really suitable for the spaces I've got available. Need to muse on it all again or else dig up all the plants and try to arrange them in the spaces
Think I'm done for the day, kicking up a bit of a bluster out there now ??
Planted up the bed from yesterday, decided on two homeless whiteish astrantia, two chunks of a campanula called hidcote lilac or something similar, a new pink hellebore, a stachys macrantha and lots of stachys officinalis. Oh and some young aconitum, types unknown. Moved out all the sidaclea I'd been trying to cram in and ended up planted them individually elsewhere.
Moved some bits and bobs, three lythrum, an aster, sanguisorba and an oriental poppy, dug up other things, mostly geums and didn't replant.
Chucked manure on another border that needs replanting and filled some pot holes where I have dug up plants and am extending the lawn.
Taking a few days off from the garden. I am just so fed up with the dull, damp weather, one minute it is drizzling and the next we are fooled into thinking the weather is improving and then this grizzle starts all over again. The temp. is so mild but we haven't seen any proper sunshine for over a week now.
I feel the same, trying to avoid turning the lawn in to a mud bath but still behind with lots to do, yet to collect and spread the manure on the borders and move the pots of bulbs in to final position. High winds last night decided to knock over the jasmine
Boxing Day and it is tipping down with rain, after a dry morning. The wind is howling and the plant pots are tumbling over.
Christmas Day was lovely, dry and mild,so no complaints there. So perhaps I will start reading one of my new books, or embark on a new jig saw. There will be plenty of time to catch up with the garden in the weeks to come.
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Some of my Daffs are poking their heads through the soil already-Horray. I still have one rose flower on a climber.
You are ahead of us Iain, leaves but no flowers yet although we do have grape hyacinths and narcissus in flower and our first camellias too.
We pruned Bramley apple tree today - well made a start, we will have to spend another hour on it later this year or early next. Planning to pile the cow manure around the fruit trees tomorrow or fairly soon. We had our best crop of apples ever (I am sure I say that every year - never weigh them as they ripen) after I had heaped manure around them last year - was that just co-incidence?
Oh yes only leaves on the daffs at the moment still nice to see though. It seems as though 2017 was a good year all round for Apples (& pears). The manure will have helped though. I also find that Rockdust or Remin as a top dressing is very good for all permanent fruit plantings.
Tried planting up a little bed under a window today, had a lot less space than I thought, despite measuring it and doing a few drawings? As a result I've lost inspiration again. Trouble is none of my surplus plants are really suitable for the spaces I've got available. Need to muse on it all again or else dig up all the plants and try to arrange them in the spaces
Did some spiking in a border!! Because water was not draining after power washing the back yard flags??
Think I'm done for the day, kicking up a bit of a bluster out there now ??
Planted up the bed from yesterday, decided on two homeless whiteish astrantia, two chunks of a campanula called hidcote lilac or something similar, a new pink hellebore, a stachys macrantha and lots of stachys officinalis. Oh and some young aconitum, types unknown. Moved out all the sidaclea I'd been trying to cram in and ended up planted them individually elsewhere.
Moved some bits and bobs, three lythrum, an aster, sanguisorba and an oriental poppy, dug up other things, mostly geums and didn't replant.
Chucked manure on another border that needs replanting and filled some pot holes where I have dug up plants and am extending the lawn.
Still haven't planted all the allium bulbs...
Taking a few days off from the garden. I am just so fed up with the dull, damp weather, one minute it is drizzling and the next we are fooled into thinking the weather is improving and then this grizzle starts all over again. The temp. is so mild but we haven't seen any proper sunshine for over a week now.
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GD I feel just like that as well. One quite mild sunny day this week but mainly soggy ground and dead leaves.
I Paddled out to the compost heap to empty the peelings from making lunch.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
I feel the same, trying to avoid turning the lawn in to a mud bath but still behind with lots to do, yet to collect and spread the manure on the borders and move the pots of bulbs in to final position. High winds last night decided to knock over the jasmine
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Boxing Day and it is tipping down with rain, after a dry morning. The wind is howling and the plant pots are tumbling over.
Christmas Day was lovely, dry and mild,so no complaints there. So perhaps I will start reading one of my new books, or embark on a new jig saw. There will be plenty of time to catch up with the garden in the weeks to come.