WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2018

Do Morrisons 'garden centre' stores have their £2 perennials in yet? Not just the climbers

 

I will be doing our fortnightly shopping trip tomorrow Mark i will report back if you get no replies.

 

What can I expect from my primulas? Will they come back bigger each year? If I bought too many now would I soon find myself overrun with them? What do others do regarding colours? Random colours or carefully selected?

G.

 

If I had clusters of primulas/primrose at the front of the bed could I have clusters of cowslip behind. Would they mix in with my alliums?

G.

 

Eventually got my heucheras repotted and cleared of vine weevil grubs. Took loads of cuttings from the trailing ones as well and put them in the greenhouse to give them a growth spurt. I have also treated these ones that are in the greenhouse with chemical vineweevil killer. The outdoor ones will be treated with the nematodes.

Hoping that they do well now.

 

Thank you Martin!

 

all of Sun night , all day yesterday and all night through to 10.00am this morning. My garden is a sodden, muddy puddle again. Fed up of sloshing about in it. I'm moving to Cornwall!. How is Nico?

As per above not much done in garden and even less will to do it. Sunny by 12 00 ish but windy and chilly. Planted two Aubretia, one Erigeron and a Lithodora. Potted up Cuckoo flower plant I bought Monday for pond and put it in pond. Said pond is now greener and more scummier . After that I decided I just couldn't be bothered fighting the wind anymore.

 

Been laying a path , in between downpours, asked the rain to stop so I could lay bark ..

......it did .... asked the rain to stop so I can carry on ....................it hasn't

 

I watered in slug nematodes today and then created an even more impenetrable barrier made out of short bits of bamboo to protect my lupins from the local cats. They keep burying presents and then scratch the soil which snaps off my lupin shoots.

 

I can spend all day looking at plants in garden centres, all evening studying plants on the internet and all night worrying about how I would go about achieving my goals. I can then go out the next morning and the whole thing just jumps into place. What has changed? I have now looked at the problem in situ. It' a no brainer really .



If I bring the primulas to the front and then push the daffodils back, I will have created the effect I was looking for without having had to buy anymore plants.

I guess sometimes "less IS more"



G.

 

Your brain must have been working in your sleep so that you were inspired when you looked at it fresh
I doubt there is any among us who has looked at what they have and given it a rethink only to achieve what they first envisaged at just the cost of a little bit of time reshuffling. Good for you, swapping the daffs to the back will look lovely!

 

I can't do it today as I've busted my trowel in the wet soil.

G.

 

Yes they have them in my local store, also some nice clematis @ £5 each they was doing some maintenance work and everything was indoors so might be best to harden them off for a week or so to be on the safe side,

One has no label so i will have to wait for it to flower it was the nicest looking plant so i had to have it .