Planting bulbs

Think I just might do that I'm planning on planting a few more things in it soon as there's just a camellia, 2 fruit trees, bulbs and not much else that I bunged in last year and they're gonna need jigging about

 

my soil, 26 years ago was junk clay. I did a lot of incorporating with topsoil, peat and some manure. Now it is lush soil. funny in some small parts if I do shovel down really deep I get the crap soil, but usually have enough bags of soil etc to mend the area for the plant and all is well. Down in the valley area, where the gazebo is, we had truck loads of good soil brought in.

 

@Linz , as far as multiplying. truly I did not touch them for years, years. It was probably a good 8 before I split out a good crop of white to other spaces. And today, I looked at those spaces, not to thrilled I did it, they are coming up, but will take another 5 years before it gets to a nice clump I want to see. they do move slowly. So for now, none of those are getting moved/split for a long time.

 

Ah, clarification..... You have that nice Essex clay overlaying gravel so it's well drained. Very different to my 200' of Wealden clay. Mr Redwing went to Writtle so I know that your clay is very different drainage wise to ours. My Anemone Blanda are growing in my specially created sandy bed.....and doing very well.

 

I planted Anemone blanda about 12years ago, in grass, under some deciduous trees on what is basically Devon clay with added tree roots and stones. It never gets waterlogged but also never gets really dry and thanks to the trees stays fairly cool.
Over the years the original clump has spread, they also self seed and have begun to pop up in the flowerbed and the front lawn, says a lot about my enthusiasm for weeding. Over the years I've added some other species of Anemone as well as named varieties of Anemone blanda. I now have white ones and pale blue ones coming up in the original clump.

 

I planted about 50 tulip bulbs last week... I know, I know, it is too late. I completed forgot them until last week. Will they be OK? I know they won't flower this year but they will be alive, right?

 

Snowing now all over them.

 

they are fine, you might see some green, but true flowers will be next spring.

 

@NigelJ , I am very careful with my weeding, as have some self seeders and plants that gently expand. have to know what the babies look like. my one challenge was planting the later alliums, because coming up they could look like wild onion, but then I decided to plant them in small circles, and that worked as a wild onion is not going to gather like that.

 

My weeding tends to be remove the obvious weeds and then thin out the rest until I need the space.

 

Can well believe that @shiney. Mr Redwiing and I farmed for years. The pipes serving the water troughs were old galvanised ones. Occasionally a large puddle or very wet area would develope so we would call the local water engineer. He was a diviner and always located the leak quickly. He had a great reputation locally. His son is now in charge of the business but I don't know if he's a diviner.

I'd never heard of distant diving though.......that really is a gift.

 

I didn't need a water diviner to locate the problem I had in the field the other day Saw a large wet patch which I thought odd as we have had no rain of any note for a month.
Went to investigate and discovered the old galvanised water trough has now got a hole in it. I suppose it was ancient so have to accept it had lasted pretty well. Had a hell of a job to stop the water continuing to flow into the trough from our private supply (gorgeous to drink with absolutely no additives other than maybe an odd tadpole every now and again!) as I broke the ballcock attempting to stop the flow of water....sigh. However, all is now ok and the old trough has been replaced with a smart new heavy duty plastic one which should well and truly see me out!