What are we doing in the garden 2024

Wandered about, pulled up a few weeds, observed that the Impatiens tinctoria is about 6 ft tall, which means the I balsanae needs moving soonish. The other Impatiens are through elsewhere in the garden.
Also noted that the nettle patch needs felling and that the badgers have kindly been through my pile of rough garden compost leaving an untidy pile of soil mixed with compost that will do nicely for planting up pots.

 

That was good of them [the badgers] @NigelJ
I didn't do much yesterday, as I wasn't around for a lot of the day, but I spent a bit of time putting a proper support round the fennel below the kitchen window - I always forget to do that early on and it gets a bit weather damaged once it's a good size. I have a couple of things to pot up in their final homes, a few things to cut back, and I suppose I should check the tomatoes [in the gr'house] to see if they need a bit of water.
Deadheading will also be needed, so that will be the main focus - and also watching all the birds coming in for food, especially the youngsters that the parents have been bringing in.

 

Nothing planned for today...raining again.... If/when it stops may make a break for the local nursery to pick up some herb plants for a trough.
Yesterday potted on some foxgloves (grown from last year's collected Camelot Cream seed) and agastache Golden Arrow seedlings collected from round the big plants. Did some tidying up and deadheading after the day before's high winds, only to get driven indoors by a veritable monsoon complete with thunder and hailstones....the road was awash and I'd imagine there is more damage to put right.....certainly most of the roses have had their petals knocked off.....

 

Blowing a gale here again. Thoroughly disheartening.

 

Same here. I managed to get outside and cut back some blackthorn and brambles that were obstructing my path down to the bottom of the garden, and plant out a couple of things that were looking miserable in pots. I'd just started emptying out my gone-over allium pots and planting out the bulbs when the rain drove me inside.

 

Spent yesterday morning dodging showers, in the afternoon felled the nettle patch and cleared most of it to the compost heaps.
This morning I've fixed one of the autovents in the greenhouse and ordered some encarsia to try and control the whitefly.
After a coffee and hanging the washing out will tidy up weeds and then plant out recent purchases.

 

Hoping to get into the garden today, it’s forecast to be dry and possibly with some sunshine. I need to tie in a rose, Rambling Rosie who should be renamed Rampant Rosie. Luckily she hasn’t too many thorns.

I also want to tackle the Bogbean in our pond. I know it’s not the best time of year but it’s taking over. If it flowered more I could forgive the excessive enthusiasm, sigh…

Final must do job, will be pulling the gone over flower stems from the Alkanet. It will tidy up the appearance and reduce the self seeders. We should then get another flush of flowers later on.

Final, final must do will be planting out the rest of the Cosmos.

I’m not looking at my garden notebook as no doubt there will be more jobs on the to-do list which I have forgotten about, scratch that re-prioritised

 

Sitting in the summerhouse, listening to a trout catching a fly and admiring my Dahlias. I will admire them even more when they're in flower.
The neighbours have a tidy garden!

 

Not a lot! Turned suddenly quite warm, well, up to 20.3 by 4 pm. Half heartedly cut back overgrown corner of the drive where our house number sign sits and ditto bits of the hedge above it. Watered the runner beans I planted earlier and helped OH by carrying the full lawnmower bin up to the council green waste bin (he's got a dodgy hip). Sat and ate an ice cream.

 

Most of my gardening was at MIL’s today - just a tidy of her pots and trimmed back the geraniums. She was pleased with a rose in a pot from one of my cuttings production line - a year 2 so allowing it to flower this year.

 

May have mentioned it elsewhere, but the last couple of days I broke up some old roof tiles and wrote the names of my roses on them with a black marker pen then used them as plant labels. I liked the rustic look of labelling roses like that in the garden we visited on Thursday.

Today I did dead heading and tying up plants, including the peppers and tomatoes. I did some hoeing in the veg garden and some strimming around a fence. OH did mowing. Off to the UK on Tuesday so that's the last bit of gardening here for a bit.

 

When I came back on Friday, I saw that heavy wind had done some "changes" to the garden. Many of the plants were in a 45 degrees angle and had fallen over.
Yesterday morning, I started at 7 and was busy for the next 3 hours to correct the changes by staking affected plants. I also cut the first of the wild geraniums which had finished its Spring job.
Back from Dobbies, I spread the landscape bark around the newly planted Deutzia and Spiraea and onto my new little path in the main bed.
While showing my friend in Spain the garden, I saw that I had forgotten to cut the end of the next year's blackberry shoots. Will do that today.

 

I could try some of those slate signs on the Asters @Busy-Lizzie - they'd be well suited for the reason @Loofah gives
They're starting to recover a bit, but probably too late for much of a display this year. They've never been so slug damaged.
I have a new post to put in on the back fence, and today looks pretty decent for doing it. I've been putting it off, but I had to replace the neighbouring one last year [?] and I knew this one would need done too. It was hideously hot when I did the other one, but I had no choice about doing it, and it needed another one put in as well, as I couldn't have got the existing concrete out without a digger, so I had to take the fence line further out, but this one will actually mean the whole fence will look straighter.
After that, I will possibly lie down in a darkened room....

 

I wonder how hot "hideously hot" is for you, @fairygirl! Raining in Dordogne and I've lit the woodburner.

The tiles I used for the labels are terracotta, weathered orangy brown.