What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

I agree with you, Perki, that Lilac only last a month in flower but it is a glorious month of scent and flower. The other eleven months of just foilage can be dealt with by introducing a repeat flowering climbing rose planted so that it will climb up into the Lilac as I have done.

Well, my Lilac is around 40 years old and I hard prune it back every 3 years leaving an open frame and it comes back quite happily, Perki. They say you lose flowering for a year or two after pruning but mine has flowered every year without problems. It also makes a very good place to hang my Bird Feeders as it gives protection from the local Hawks.
I'm not sure, but I think lucius is near South Stack with winds and salt laden air being blown in when the weather isn't great, but she manages to have some very interesting plants while care for Hedgehogs and wanting to increase the number of pools she has for the benefit of wildlife.........I take my Hat off to her

 

We have Clematis growing up through some of ours.


We also hard prune them.

 

I cut back another 200 ~Verbena bonariensis. It has seeded everywhere and is in loads of pots of other plants. Lots of people get Shineyland bonus plants when they buy the plant they want.

 

Well, hopefully that's a sign that your Compost Bin is working fine as a cold one would be sign that it wasn't.

 

Very mild today so that got me out into the garden and the Green House. I took the new climbing rose "Bathsheba" ,while still in the pot, out into the garden to decide where exactly would be the spot in which to plant it in front of the Lilac. The spot I'd already got in my mind was well out of being the right one, but I've now left a marker cane where I've now decided it will go.
I refilled the long Bird Feeder in the middle border and the short one hung on the Lilac with the birds flying to them as soon as I got a distance away. I think another 20 Kilo sack of seed is going to be needed soon.
Getting out of the feeding birds way I went into the Green House and potted 8 Munstead Lavender into larger pots using my trusted mixture of compost, potting grit and sand. As I now use only rainwater to keep the plants in the Green House happy I've bought a TDS meter to keep a check on it's purity etc. So far it's been giving a reading of 5 so I'm happy with that.
I'll be hard pruning, weather permitting, all the Roses while also pruning the Trellis Garden Entrance Clematis down to around 12", and hard pruning all 3 Buddleja as well. I hadn't managed to prune the Buddleja last year so there's a lot more growth to be dealt with and I'll probably use the Hedge Trimmer on them first and then use the Secateurs to get down to the last 2 or 3 shoots on each stem and get the cut growth down to the Dump. There'll be a lot of cut growth from the Clematis but they will rot down quickly in my Compost Bins.