Potted on some seedlings in the conservatory 🌱🌱🌱 and then bravely ventured down to the bottom of the garden to check and water some stuff overwintering in the greenhouse.
Any enthusiasm I had for outdoor work was blown away by the biting wind. It's f.f.f.freezing.
Had a quick walk round the garden once the snow had thawed and counted the flowers in bloom, does that count? They were a few late snowdrops, daffodils, crocuses, squills, hyacinths, anenomes, cherry tree blossom and prunus incisa, quince, lonicera fragantissima, daphne odora, pink & white heathers, celandines, primroses and primulas hellebores, witchhazel and pulmonaria. I was amazed! Some look a bit droopy after the snow but in the sunshine,they are now perking up. Now if only Spring would hurry up I might get some more.
I've spent most of today in the garden! To hell with the housework,the sun's shining!! Planted up my new Clematis and a climbing rose for the arch.Did some rockery building,Planted two Lavender,Penstemon and Salvias,also split a large geranium in two "Mrs Kendall Clarke" it looks quite pretty on the label! Now relaxing with a cuppa,surveying the work! Oooh,I bet I ache tomorrow!x😁😁🌱
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I like your style Cazgo 😁. Who needs to hoover when the sun is shining? 😉.
Spent most of my afternoon outside, pruning, weeding, and potting up. Green bin is almost full to the top.
Has anyone seen @Learnincurve since the forum update? She was really cracking on with her garden but we've not heard from her for a while. Hi LC if you're looking in 🙋.
Not heard from LC either, so I hello from me too - please join us again. We finally dug over the wild flower area for a third and last time - removing as much bind weed as we could. Now the soil is covered until we are ready to sow the seed - early next month if the weather doesn't change for the worse again. I also planted the last of my new bare root strawberries, watered and manured around them.
I've finished "moving on" the agapanthus into bigger pots and I've potted up lots of summer bulbs. With only 4 hours sleep last night, I'm not knackered.
This morning OH mowed our grassy bank - first time for a few months and he washed some pots and module trays. I sowed some castor oil beans, cucumber and sunflower seeds, then we planted an established Michaelmas Daisy which should please the pollinating insects in late summer/autumn and watered a few other new plantings to promote good growth.
Birthday outing to GC this morning, OH bought me David Austin rose "Graham Thomas". We had one years ago, and it was the best rose l ever had. Also bought some herbs and manure with vouchers I'd been given. Called in at SM on way home and bought clematis and honeysuckle for £2.50 each, look very healthy. Just wish the weather would improve, people at GC saying that forecast for Easter isn't great, and l haven't sown a seed yet !
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Any enthusiasm I had for outdoor work was blown away by the biting wind. It's f.f.f.freezing.
Planted up my new Clematis and a climbing rose for the arch.Did some rockery building,Planted two Lavender,Penstemon and Salvias,also split a large geranium in two "Mrs Kendall Clarke" it looks quite pretty on the label!
Now relaxing with a cuppa,surveying the work! Oooh,I bet I ache tomorrow!x😁😁🌱
Spent most of my afternoon outside, pruning, weeding, and potting up. Green bin is almost full to the top.
Has anyone seen @Learnincurve since the forum update? She was really cracking on with her garden but we've not heard from her for a while.
Hi LC if you're looking in 🙋.
We finally dug over the wild flower area for a third and last time - removing as much bind weed as we could. Now the soil is covered until we are ready to sow the seed - early next month if the weather doesn't change for the worse again. I also planted the last of my new bare root strawberries, watered and manured around them.