WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2021

After pruning, shredding and weeding yesterday today I will plant plants, got violas, tithonias, sunflowers, verbascums, a couple of mahonias, another buddleja, an unusual lilac (Syringa pinnatifolia) and then back to weeding.

 

@Perki Yes-the geum is totally tangerine. it's been flowers for a long time already and shows no sign of stopping but have annoyingly flopped forward. i'll try tie them up but i bet they'll look a bloomin mess :(

 

@Lindsey244 hello and welcome to GC and your garden is looking great.

 

Planted the rest of the cosmos in some pots that have some daffodil bulbs in so I planted on top of them. Also did the same with some verbena bonerenses and put them under the kitchen window.

 

Deadheading mostly and planted out the remaining Rudbeckias.

 

Not doing much else today it's too hot.

 

It too hot in the garden, so I'm playing with my Echo Dot, a Fathers Day present plus watching football.

 

Just finished re-homing loads of escapee Verbena Bonariensis .....gosh the devil's get everywhere!!

I'll have to have a word with them.

 

Good lord, I think the aloe vera's had pups... I'm going to need a bigger pot

 

Dead headed lots of Pelargonium. Took a cutting from my Orange Sunset Hibiscus and put in a pot to root. That's all folks.

 

It was too hot to do much. I watered lots of things, and put pots of spring bulbs in an alleyway to finish dying off. I don't think they'll be any good next year though, they're not usually.

 

This morning before it got too hot I tied up the tomato plants.
Is it too late to prune the blueberry bushes? Don't usually do it but they need a bit of a boost by trimming them, some didn't fruit because of it.

 

Decided that I would make a start on enlarging the hole that is going to be the second pond. Been putting it off for ages as not looking forward to hours of digging. However, ground was rock hard and couldn't get space in. Soaked the ground with hose pipe for awhile, which helped but after two spadefulls the soil was bone dry again. Weather has been beautiful today, so very quickly decided to exchange the spade for a zero on the patio. And that is where I remained all day .

 

So sorry to read this. How terribly sad . But, you have some lovely pictures and wonderful memories to remember her with.