What are we doing in the garden 2025

Not a Cordyline. Looks like a baby palm tree, not sure how old it is, quite young if it grows to 15ft when mature. I'll take a pic tomorrow

 

Baby palm plant

 

Going to try and finish off emptying two huge bulk bags of gravel in the front garden today….if it stops raining. We managed to empty one yesterday and have most of the second one to empty today. The area now looks huge so have ordered some wooden planters to place about the garden to break it up a bit. It will probably need something more but will get them as and when.

 

I don’t know what it is called, but a house a couple of roads away used to have something similar. Grew to about 3 m and had purple flower stalks. It looked like a giant Veronica.

 

I bought 1.2L bottle of Tomorite at my local garden centre, quite a bargain
for £5, unless it's been watered down

 

Would that have been an Echium, perhaps?

 

Possibly! It seemed quite short-lived, but was certainly dramatic.

Bitter out there, even with my winter jacket and a hot water bottle for my back. Watered a couple of things, as we haven’t had rain in a while … but then came back in. So many things to do out there, so it is frustrating. Those few warm days last week are a distant memory.

 

Yes looks like an Echium.

I've just planted my Red Barron onion sets, its quite early for me, some years I cant even get on the mud until April.

 

Must be approaching the M25 by now then, or are you going to Cambridge.

 

Hubby's slowly pruning the roses and I'm digging up some old currant bushes and planting new ones.

 

Back in the garden after a break. How plants have come along in ten days.

Creating and spreading mulch. I also (accidentally) startled a wood pigeon, which flew headlong into the shed door, no doubt obtaining a nasty headache in the process!!

 

Lucilusmaximus , Are the leaves soft have soft hairs bit ,like a nettle and the trunk quite firm ?

As this reminds me of a blue echium which came free (the birds. )
The first year it was just a Rossett of leaves then year after grew like yours . Checked up the seeds and they were quite expensive. If you are wanting to keep it and it is a echium mine grew 5 ft . Tall yes !!! but beautiful blue flowers . Doesn't come again so if I'm right and you want to grow another collect the seeds , though ive read not easy to germinate in cold and open places.

Like ours ,surrounded by fields and expected

 

I've sowed some seeds today , need remove in the propagators for sowing tomatoes which will hopefully be weekend . Expecting some seeds and plant / bulb order from peter nyssen this week . This week weather so far has been much better than forecast no frost yet it were nice sunny Monday and most of Tuesday and today were going ok until rain and hailstone .

Glad Shiney doing the power washing and not me I hate it along with painting, I've not seen fossils in stone paving before did you order them from a special supplier @shiney