What Jobs are we doing in the Garden today 2014..

Planting a Black bamboo (Phyllostahys nigra), I'm going to plant it allong side our fence but I'm putting it in an large plastic container buried in the ground so it wont spread, then planting a few more clematis.

 

Cutting back some shrubs. I've got some evergreens that I fear I may kill off but I've got to cut them back. They'll be looking really bare though after :(

 

What are you cutting back Ellen?

 

One's definitely box, the other either side of it I'm not sure

 

this is the area, it's the lighter bush I'm not sure of

 

I've thinned them out

 

@Ellen ....looks like a Hebe ....i need to do the same but mine needs more drastic action so i know it's going to look awful,should have done it last year....

Tided my Strawberrys up and was going to do lots more but my old dad has hidden my trugs so i'll have to sit in the sun instead....(that's my excuse)
Whilst i've been at work Mr Loli (not a gardener)....has taken a chain saw to the the ivy....(for heavens sake ...just wait till he gets in)

 

Cut a lot of dead wood out of a hydrangea and did some more weeding and tidying. Dug some fertiliser into one of the flower beds.

Can you prune winter jasmine right back? I have a few that are looking really straggly and a bit wild.

 

NO he flipping didn't........(chain saw for Ivy...I ask you)....he's back ....had the lecture....now sulking to his motor bikes

 

He's failed! Takes more than a chain saw to kill the sodding stuff!!!!

I've limped around weeding (Primrose, F/Me/Nots, Aquilegia the main sinners), potting stuff on, shifted a Fuchsia and my Dorycnium, and hacking last years stems back on Lobelia tupa. Moved a couple of dormant/dead Salvias and took a chance and planted out Salvias Black Knight and Wendys Wish (they've been in a sheltered spot outdoors all winter and I doubt that they'll see anything worse than they have already. Same goes for the Solanum rantonettii that I've planted out.

 

It doesn't need killing....just tidying up IMO... but it looks 'unruly' so i'm told...(numpty)...looks 'natural' to me....he won't be smirking when he has to replace the fence....after all ,that's what was holding it up

You go steady

 

It was the Ivy that was dragging/pushing our dry stone walls down - spawn of the devil if you ask me!!
Got to tackle next doors soon.

That's what I've been doing all week and I'm bored witless! Done series 4 of Spiral (the only one that I'd not seen) which was good, but there is only so long that I can sit on my ass!

 

Who's side are you on longk?...

It must be very frustrating...but do take care