Spring is here !!

Hi all,

Well its defo arrived here in South Essex. A lovely sunny and warm weekend. Everthing bursting into life. I must start dividing all of my perenials soon !!

Pruned all the roses, cut back the Butterfly Bush, Prunned hard the Clems !! All great spring jobs !!

G

 

Not so sunny here, but dry at least and everything is springing into life.

I've been busy potting things into big planters, digging out the roots of a very old climbing rose, laying paving stones and top dressing some of the planters with manure and slow release fertiliser.

I want to shuffle round some of the planters, so am having a cuppa and pondering what to put where.

 

What are the paving stones your laying ?

 

Just the Bradstone buff textured paving ones (600mm x 600mm). I'm laying a path across the lawn. I can only do a couple at a time though because being a weak feeble female they are very heavy so I've been buying a couple here and there.

 

Its been a fabulous day here. So warm I was just in shirt sleeves. I emptied my greenhouse to see how things had overwintered. Almost everything was growing again - so I gave them a much wanted drink. But I left the bulbs and rhizomes that haven't warmed up enough to come into growth.

 

Yup ... shirtsleeves all weekend here too. Pruned the roses, pinched out the apical bud, and all the leading buds on side shoots, on all the recently planted hedge plants (there's about 2,000 of them :( ) and pricked out some vegetable plants, potted on some other things, and sowed a variety of seeds. Loads more to sow though, and I'm running about a week behind with the sowing schedule ...

 

A few days to go yet First day of spring is 20th March or the spring equinox

 

Yes sounds like we've all been busy....what a cracking day i knocked off for an hour to listen to GQT...couldn't believe i had to find a shady spot in the garden because i was too HOT....I'm sat here now thinking wether or not to go in the greenhouse and prick out a few seedlings....i thought gardening was supposed to be relaxing.....i just can't resist

 

Its been like summer here today. I've got a fair bit done. I've mostly secured my cheap blow away greenhouse, although I ran out of wood so had to have a trip to the beach to find some more

I've pinned the bottom of the cover down between planks of wood, and buried them to weigh it down, and built a raised bed along the length of the greenhouse.

Then a couple of tinnies in my sister's garden, before a walk along the beach

 

Keep you busy then merleword

 

It's not fair! I'm very jealous. I spent most of yesterday car hunting and most of today car cleaning ready for sale. What a waste!

Anyone want to buy two cars?

 

I just did the dead heading from last autumn! As I'm moving soon there wasn't much to get on with. But my somewhat neglected Tricyrtis "Raspberry Mousse" was bursting out (as I discovered when I pulled a dead stem from last year off and bought loads of new shoots up with it).
Last years Lobelia siphilitica looked well - leaving the dead stems on over the winter is essential for winter survival.
But both of the Gaura lindheimeri look as if they're toast, despite surviving 2010/11

 

I just did the dead heading from last autumn! As I'm moving soon there wasn't much to get on with. But my somewhat neglected Tricyrtis "Raspberry Mousse" was bursting out (as I discovered when I pulled a dead stem from last year off and bought loads of new shoots up with it).
Last years Lobelia siphilitica looked well - leaving the dead stems on over the winter is essential for winter survival.
But both of the Gaura lindheimeri look as if they're toast, despite surviving 2010/11

 

Another great day in South Essex. Sun out, lovely and warm. Did lots today, i divided up some day lilly and Aster. The SW facing border is very dry but the NE facing border is still very wet. That side is wetter anyway, but its still so wet and claggy that im finding it hard to plant so will have to wait a while for that side. I also planted some box around the left side of my new patio, dug out a few more flag stones worth and found my two spots and sewed the Cornflower mix in those areas.

A good day