WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2023

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  1. Logan

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      Sowed some seeds, Snapdragon, Polyanthus and Bell flowers.
      It's too cold to do anything outside, it's that cold wind.
       
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        Hello.
        this is the start of year 3 for me since deciding to try to do something about the garden!year one was clearing out areas that had years of being used to dump stuff. building a seating area in the fallen down lilac. cutting out some boarders, building a compost and scratching my head as to what to do next. I killed quite a lot of plants but some were successful and I learnt a lot too. this is my seat thing. last year the garden looked nice. the first year I bought lots of alpine plants for the rocky bank but they did not do well. it also looked a bit rubbish so I planted it with grasses, Echinacea , asters and thing like that and it also had a few things that arrived on their own and I thought it looked muck nicer. last autumn I bought some roses so im excited to see what happens to them. I actually bought a couple the autumn before too which were amazing.
        this year I didn't get my dahlias in before the frost and so I am keeping my fingers crossed that they have survived. I did just have a little dig and they seem ok as the moment. most of my gardening this month has been looking at it, willing stuff to start coming up! I did prune the original roses I bought the first autumn this last weekend. I took a video but im not sure I can upload it on to here??
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          The steel wool scratches the plastic so it is much better to "wash" off the writing and leave a smooth surface that can again be labeled and again the ink would not penetrate below the glossy finish. I did try using something like that a few years ago and yes, it did work but no, there was only one use left in the little stake because the lettering had sunk right in and could not be fully removed. I'm a little anal with trying to reuse things as much as possible.

          These are just little stakes - entire length is about 6".
           
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            Been out for all the morning ,so nothing doing out in the garden today unfortunately.
             
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              I've been brushing loads of dead leaves up - in the Western Australia beds in NBGW, pruning banksias, and pulling out self seeding everlastings.
              I really should do more in my own garden:biggrin:
               
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                @CanadianLori I use a pencil on plastic labels which doesn't fade, and remove it with washing up liquid.
                 
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                  I've not been able to do anything in my garden for the last couple of months due to the weather. Today I ventured out there while a large, heavy branch was removed from a Beech tree by a local man that does various jobs for me. The tree is about 45-50ft in height and is leaning, not helped by the prevailing wind. Hopefully removing the branch from the side that the tree is leaning will take some of the pressure off.
                   
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                    I'm still continuing to remove the willow leaves from the pots in the large paved nursery area and spending a couple of hours a day, in short sessions, doing that and clearing the leaves that have built up between the pots. This job was hampered by the strong wind but I had friendly company with Mr Robin chirping at me all the time and having a good feed on things that seemed to be hiding beneath the leaves. All three green waste wheelie bins were stuffed full and the bin men took them yesterday so I can carry on today.

                    Too many willow leaves don't work too well on the compost heaps when they are full of loads of thin twigs and the council's ginormous heaps work better on them. Virtually all the plants in the pots seem to have survived the harsh freeze as they were sheltered somewhat by the willow above, summerhouse on one side, privet on another and conifers on a third. Mr Label (one particular blackbird) has obviously worked hard through the winter swapping all the labels around but the effectiveness of his mischief was dulled somewhat by the labels managing to obviate the guarantee of the marking pen's claim to being indelible. :doh: Although I did see that the labelled plant that said it was a deep red rose is looking very much like Hebe Mrs Winder. :whistle:

                    We are holding back on a lot of plants that were destined for the charity garden centre until we see how many plants in the garden have not survived. It appears that two of our 6ft high Hebe salicifolias have gone to that great garden in the sky but we have some of those in the nursery area
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                    I've cleared about 300 of the planted pots so far and have transferred about 20 of our pots of narcissi and daffs back to the patio. I'm also collecting what should be the pots of tulips into one section ready for transferring later in the Spring.

                    I'm approaching the area where we keep the bulk of our thousands of medium and large pots (from 3 litres up to about 35 litres) - all donated to us. As we shall no longer be opening our garden we have let it be known that we don't want any more donations but still keep finding large compost bags of pots in our car port! :rolleyespink: Shifting those pots to clear the leaves will have to wait for a day when my back is feeling fitter. Although empty pots are light large stacks of them aren't quite so light.

                    We're keeping our fingers crossed that the lawns will recover quickly from the all the damage from the tree surgeons but they look rather sad at the moment. :noidea:

                    today should be a day of rest from gardening :fingers crossed:
                     
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                      I think a couple of our Hebes will be joining yours too @shiney . :sad:
                       
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                        I have lost 2 hebes as well :-(
                         
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                          Shifting several tonnes of topsoil mix into the greenhouse. Very achey now and have the raised beds to top up tomorrow. Where's the gin?
                           
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                            I'm surprised the Hebe salicilifolia has died @shiney . Around here it grows in derelict land and was one of the first things I grew from cuttings around age of 8!
                             
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                              @CarolineL We're leaving them be at the moment just in case they aren't as dead as they look. :fingers crossed:

                              Our biggest Euphorbia mellifera (about 8ft high) also looks as though it hasn't survived but I've cut it down and shall wait and see whether it recovers. I have at least one in the nursery area that is showing some life so all is not lost, but it would take a while to get to the same size.
                               
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                                We're leaving ours be for the present to see if, by any luck, they spring into life. :fingers crossed::fingers crossed:
                                 
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