WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2017

@silu SNOW!!!! That is crazy! Storms moved on here and has been sunny albeit a little windy.

Got outside and mrsnorky dug up the last two tree roots out the sunny border and I've been breaking the hardened soil down with a pick axe and forting in the manure. Mum is coming up at the weekend and bringing her rotorvator.

Hoping my plants harden off quickly in the coldframe....I'm desperate to get planting!!!

 

Spent 5 hours in the garden today ........ I really believed that 5 hours would produce visible results for my efforts. Today has been very cold with mixture of sunny spells and icy rain showers - 2 fleece's and a hat weather. All I have gained is being dirty, tired, hungry and very disillusioned . Apart from the new paint on the patio walls the garden doesn't look as if its been touched.

Clean and busy stuffing my face with chocolate and wine now before hubby gets home.

 

I'm quite sure that whatever you did in those 5 hours will have made a difference in the longer term even if it doesn't seem so today

 

Seen someone in asda the other day pick up a bunch of cut daffodils that were already in full bloom..

Done nothing in the garden or on the plot..bloody hail/rain/sleet :( bought a musa basjoo and a canna online today though, about to buy a venus flytrap too. Looking for more hemerocallis and martagon lillies but can't find any mixed ones at decent price

 

You can get them in Poundstretcher/Poundland/Wilko's etc. Now is the time to get them in too - the ones I bought last year are already a good few inches of green above the soil (and yes, they are the el cheapo shop ones)

 

I got the Stella o' something or other from wilko last year and another orangey one from somewhere else cheap, wasn't a bad show for sticking it in that year will check out poundstretcher and poundland havent been there for a few weeks now.. and I just remembered I have no car hahaha!!! bum

 

I've had to look those up because I haven't heard of those before.

Found this lovely bit of info:

Fascinating!

 

Stella d'oro ? Smallish and bright yellow?

 

They're lovely looking things.. even if they're likened to someone's headwear

Yep them are the ones

 

You know the old saying: "If you want to get ahead ... get a hat!" You won't go far wrong

 

Hi @Linz - martagon are so expensive, I grew them from seed. Takes a few years, but is exciting when they first flower. I am trying to get seed of the white form too. Lilies are a bit arbitrary - sometimes the seed takes ages, then other batches come up like cress!