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

Actually, Charlie, I think they are!! I let one grow up the South side of my Arbour along with Compassion Rose and 4 Honeysuckle this year and it looked great. When it finished I just dug it up and binned it on the compost heap. So long as they are kept under control I think they're okay and I love to see them along the hedges of the lanes around here. I also have to deal with Nettle seedlings as I purposely grown Nettles down at the bottom of the garden as food for Caterpillars.......but I can't say Nettles are pretty!!

 

Oh! I don't know! They can look quite good.

 

I never let them get to that stage, Shiney I always dehead them in a effort to stop them seeding and spreading.......but since I keep finding seedlings I'm obviously missing some

 

We've had that area covered in them for years and they look lovely in flower. They also look pretty good with their variegated leaves but we've dug the whole lot out this winter. They take a lot of work because of the amount of runners that they put out and we're trying to reduce the amount of work we have to do in the garden.

Of course, things don't always work out the way we originally planned. We've reduced that work in the back garden and then, this year, we've pulled out the big conifer hedge/trees (22 of them) in the front garden and turned the area into flower bed.

My next trip to get a load more horse poo is scheduled for Christmas Eve . I'm expecting to get between 20 and 40 seventy litre bags full. The quantity depends on whether I can get help to dig it out and bag it and whether my back is up to it.

 

Most of the leaves have now been cleared as Michael came round with his blower. We normally can't breathe a sigh of relief until the willow leaves are all down. This year they have come down a month early.

Some trees are still clinging to their leaves but the willows, poplars, silver birch, cherry prunus and fruit trees have all finished, and they are the bulk of them.

 

Sometimes the birds pull them out.

 

I often get the birds pulling up newly planted bulbs in the borders, I think it might be that they're searching for any insects or worms exposed.

 

It's the problem with youngsters of today . They need an ASBO