What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

They're as good as I hoped they would be, Perki, and if anything some of them were bigger than I thought they would be. When you consider that most of them are still flowering and some are just starting to flower they've given us weeks of colour. So, if they flower next year I'll be more than pleased.

 

In the borders at the moment...........

An Agapanthus about to burst bud













I bought this Rose believing it to be Rose "Uncle Walter"......which it definitely 'ain't


Allium Nectorscordum seed pods




Rose "Crazy for You"

 

On the patio.......








Climbing Rose "Basheba" under the Lilac in the border

 

The white Kitten, (Teasel), has learned that trick, Sheal, from the innocent looking one in the corner and they both usually seem to do that when they catch sight of me on the Patio. The wire is actually for a short lace curtain which they have pushed/pulled to one side but will hide behind when the Sun is too hot.
The little black and white Kitten, Fern, actually managed to, today, climb into a lower Kitchen Cabinet, and then get underneath and couldn't get out. Going into the Kitchen I thought it had gone quiet and couldn't find Fern while Teasel was acting innocent. Then I heard scrabbling sounds and had to pull the Cabinet skirting out so that Fern could climb out.............she seems to find trouble and situations every day

 

Well, you know the nature of my garden and that it has high fences to keep my previous Cats in and others out but, at the moment I have 48 pieces of 12' long 4" X 2" timber lying on my Driveway waiting to be cut into 6' feet lengths to be dropped horizontally between the concrete posts up to and beyond 6' high with the 3' chicken wire frames added on top so they will have to wait.
There is another thing in that I have an overwhelming desire to keep my Kittens/Cats safe and not become road kill and ensuring they are never left out in the cold etc. With a Dog let out into the garden you can point and say "In, Fido" and it will go. Do that with two Kittens and say "Fern, Teasel, In" and there is no chance. So I would have two Cats/Kittens out in that jungle of a garden with no chance of getting them back in until food and hunger brought them in. I think the real problem, for me, is that my other Cats would go out for an evening patrol and be back in by midnight but with these two "monkeys" there's a good chance that come time to lock up the House they will still be out there and be locked out until the morning.......sounds daft but I would worry about that. Cat flaps are out as my Doors are good thick wooden doors and I have no intention of cutting into them. My answer before was to leave the Kitchen door ajar during the day and evening so that my previous Cats could come and go and they had learnt to be back for a night on the Sofa. I'll have to meet them halfway somehow!!