WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2017

Blerry Rabbits!!!

We have a young Eucalyptus in the garden (about waist high) and the rabbits are thinking they're Koala Bears . They've chewed the bark on the first 12" and dug the tree up

It was only remaining in place as it was tied to a cane. I've replanted it, added some nutritious compost/manure and watered it with tomato feed and Rescue Remedy. I've also put chicken wire around it.

 

Good morning @KFF and @Verdun my friends sorry about the delay in answering my friends,have the Grandchildren visiting and they are running all over me this week

They Rudbeckias and are called "Little Goldstar"

 

No, it has to go back for next year - otherwise it won't be there for her to win again!

 

We have a Euphorbia mellifera that gets a bit on the large size. This picture was taken early June and the Euphorbia is behind the white flowered Cistus. It's getting rather out of hand and has forced the cistus forward about 5ft.
In the picture it's 6ft high and has a 10ft diameter.


By this month it had grown to 8ft high and we decided it need a drastic pruning so we cut it down to the ground. That was two weeks ago and it is already growing like mad.

You can see how large it was by the gap around it and the only thing that didn't get pushed out of place was the Skyrocket. The crocosmia behind it was also flattened to the ground and I have had to stake them and tie them back upright.



Another plant that got out of hand was in our new bed where, two years ago, we removed 22 x 40 year old conifers. One plant was a beautiful Phygelius but it has grown at a fantastic rate and put out lots of root runs with new plants sprouting up. We don't have time to keep it under control so it had to go. We dug it out today and put it on the bonfire heap.



It had filled that space (only two years old), smothered some Heucheras and spread through the plants around it.
An ignominious end to a good plant


The Heucheras had been pushed flat across the driveway. So we had to take them out, are going to split them and put some back in and, possibly, make up pots for sale for next year.


We now have to decide what to put in the gap.

 

They're very attractive plants and would look good there but I thought they were invasive through quickly spreading rhizomes.

We're trying to keep from having plants that tend to spread under the soil as we now try to restrict ourselves to having plants that can be cut back instead. Unfortunately anno domini is having an effect