WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2019

That's the unfortunate trouble @shiney ...I get awful side effects from most medication it seems. As I said in my earlier post one type made all my surroundings appear squishy....even the ground beneath my feet felt like I was walking on marshmallows!!!!
I am well and truly past 45 and yep .......they're here to stay!!!

 

The old bird feeder is on its way back for a refund and I've ordered a new one.

This is much better designed. The rainwater will drain away more easily, as the drain holes are bigger, there's a lip in front of the apertures to stop water making the food damp and it's easier to fill. The birds will also be able to see the food.







£7.50, post free on eBay.

 

I'm going to get one of those too @Doghouse Riley ...looks good and a good price :D

 

Mulched another border today so gradually covering the whole garden
It has been a dry, mildish day with the odd sunshiney spell so enjoyable working in the garden
Funny old county this......long and thin with minus temperatures in the east tonight and plus temps in the west down here

 

All it got was "a coat of looking at."

Our mimosa is nearly in flower. We've had it in a big tub on the patio for many years. It gets pruned every year after it has flowered, otherwise it'd take over the patio.



Likewise our eunonymus is decades old, never looks any different all year round. I keep it trimmed back towards the fence so it doesn't cast a bigger shadow over the flox on the rockery.



We've three quinces, this white one and further down an orange and then a pink. The white one always flowers first. They each produce a lot of fruit but all three look different from each other.
Again I prune these back to a band along the top of the fence, as they would overpower the azaleas and rhodos.



An assortment of bulbs in this bed are doing well, I've forgotten what's in there, but I don't really care as long as they look good when they flower .



Masses of buds on these rhodos.



The iron sulphate I watered in has killed off the small patches of moss and perked up the grass of the lawn. On the right-hand side there's a riddle covering some "unclaimed" divots I pinched from my golf course, (where some players had taken them out of fairways, not replaced them and you can't see where they should go back) I'm using them there, to patch a tiny bit of the lawn. The riddle is to stop the blackbirds pulling up the patches to look for worms.
My wife says I'm stealing the golf course a bit at a time.

The canes in the bottom right hand corner are in the tub of our new Stella Cherry. Wires are attached to a few branches to pull them away from each other to stop them crossing. I'll remove them in a few months once it's started growing, when the branches will stay in their new position.
Trouble with nature there's sometimes no symmetry at all.
I did the same with that Sorbus next to the pagoda. I corrected both a forward lean and a bend to the left it had developed, the same way, but it took a couple of years.


Everything is looking quite tidy. So I'll go and put my feet up.

 

Your Mimosa looks really smart DHR , its one of them plants I've been keen on growing but worried it will die in winter.

 

Thanks for the kind words.

It's always been in a pot and later a tub for the ten years we've had it.

This is it eight years ago. It was quite tall then, but as I said, we prune it back each year.



It's in a really big plastic tub now. It shares the patio with fifteen roses in ceramic pots.



This year I'm going to balance up the foliage. It wasn't pruned hard enough last year and it's put on a lot of growth, but if I'd done it later in the year we'd have had fewer blooms.


We give a sambucus in a big tub in a centre bed, the same treatment as that grows a lot during the year. Here last year it's about seven feet tall.





It's about three feet tall at the moment.


We like it in this tub as we can ring the changes with this feature. The three azaleas around it will eventually completely hide any tub. The mimosa could go there if we choose.

 

Pruned a few odds and sods over the last few days, weather is too cold for me.
But I have been in the poly tunnel digging nettles out, also the odd tree stump I miss laid.
It’s having a. Complete overhaul, new cover and different beds to make it easier on me.

 

Nowt today. Apart from putting the grow lights on for a few hours.

 

I really want to pot up my bulbs to start them off before it's too late. I have daffodils, crocuses, muscari, tulips and hyacinths (I think, without going out to the shed to look). What are the chances of them surviving the night time frosts? Would the fact they are in a container and not in the ground have a bearing?

G.

 

I sowed some soil blocks with brussels sprouts and others with basil. I have a grandson who loves the smell of basil. He is autistic and these kids have so few joys in life, it's nice to be able to help with something that he likes.

 

Hi Jack , you've left it really late. Our Daffs and Hyacinths are up and Crocus are flowering now.

Muscari usually form leaves in November and are in full leaf now.

You should still get flowers this year as they are formed the year ( in the instance of Daff's they start rooting and forming in late July/August ) before but I don't hold much hope out that they'll be any good for future years. The Tulips you'll probably be ok with as normal planting time for these is from late November through to January.

 

@KFF thanks for replying. I was given the bulbs as a late xmas present. None of those are out here yet.

G.