What are we doing in the garden 2024

How about a white seagull above some grass arrows ?

 

I left just before 5 , i would have stayed had i known . They are a great sight - you did well to get that photo.

 

You're very kind @Robert Bowen

 

Just Remembered I took some photos (at a distance, again!) when they were at the Rhyl air show last year @Robert Bowen

 

We saw the Red Arrows a few weeks ago in Cleethorpes (Armed Forces Day).



When I worked in Lincoln we used to see them practicing, and coming and going sometimes still trailing the remnants of the coloured smoke.

 

More hedge trimming. This time, five steps up a six step step-ladder!! In the windy conditions. Balancing on one foot so I could reach the centre of the rather deep hedge at the front of the house. Repeated by doing the same on the pavement side.
Wife came out when I was sensibly perched on the ladder - to check that I was ok, and not doing anything silly. Of course I was okay, and not doing anything silly.
Just as well we don't have a camera on the house.
But, job done on that section. Still got the hedges at the sides of the front to do.
Then take down two conifers - three, if you include the tree one foot high!!

 

Strolling about picking up limbs and sticks . Pulling weeds. Burn pile too wet to start. but will add to the collection. hope in a few days I can strike the match.

 

Sharpened the long handled loppers. Wife mentioned that they were a bit blunt, and maybe we should buy a new pair, since they are almost 20 years old.

Now what if I'd made such a choice when SHE was twenty years old, or when we'd been married for 20 years?!!!

Sharpened beautifully, by hand, with a fine metal file. Replace indeed! They are friends!

 

Today I’ve removed some of the Heleniums I planted as divisions in spring, too close and not in enough sun. Lesson learned! The borders look more airy now without the plants struggling to reach the sun and flattening everything around them. I also moved some grasses around to give them more space. It’s true, that annoying saying, less is more .

 

I shuffled some pots round at the start of the week and one of my lemon thymes has been decimated! I found two slugs under the pot

I’ve been dead-heading a few things and pottering about but no big stuff. Once the council bin is emptied next, I can think about some hedge cutting.

 

Is de-gardening a word?

Today we emptied the small pre-formed pond, took out all the lovely big stones we have been collecting over the years on our walks, saved some Elodea in plastic jar to take to the new house plus some bonus lifeforms that look like tiny shrimps.

The hole was then backfilled with compost from the various containers I have been emptying, topped up with compost from the makeshift 5 years old planting box that needs to go, and camouflaged with an unattractive dwarf buddleia.

We managed to grab rather nice Asplenium and some more Vinca minor to go with us.

Untangling the solar fountain pump and solar string lights from the adjacent Viburnum was a bit of a challenge. Who would have guessed that things grow?

Didn't refill the bird feeders, birds will just have to get used to not having a buffet until the next people move in. Hopefully they are bird friendly. The brambles are lush this year so at least the Blackbirds should be happy for now.

I have a B&Q delivery tomorrow to the new house so can pot some things up. Looking forward to that

 

While tiding up, I saw that the last remaining Verbascum was leaning in a 45 degree angle, because it started to lose grip to the ground. It was leaning towards the row of Echinacea and newly planted Gaura. I had to take it out.
I also took out the Ammi majus, aka False Queens Anne's Lace, which was more or less dying after the stems broke in so many places after the last heavy rain.
Found 1 weed that had made it into the garden.
Cut some of the old flower stems, took out dying Linaria, cleared the new path and removed two Maltese Cross that I had grown from seeds that were sitting along the new path.
What is left on that path is one plant that I had bought in April which I will move in Winter time.
I made the decision for OH to give some big pots to the neighbours by putting them in front of the house. When we came back from Cirencester, 3 were gone. Just one big is left.
All in all, it was a very successful day yesterday.

 

Have you moved a lot further away from your previous house @Selleri ? I hope you enjoy it all.
It can be interesting re-arranging [and de gardening!] a new garden. I prefer blank canvases, but that can be problematic too.

Supposed to be nice and sunny today- supposed being the important word there, and daughter is coming over later, so I don't know what I'll get done after my walk etc. Perhaps some more sorting of the shed corner, and if I can find the electric sander, I might even start on giving it a facelift. Grass can hopefully get done as I didn't get to that yesterday, and with any luck, it'll have dried out a bit by the afternoon. It'll be too long if I leave it, especially as we have quite a bit of rain in the forecast for this week.
I planted up a bit of the bed at the shed, and then realised afterwards, that I'd intended moving some white dicentra into that bit - after I'd planted out a hardy geranium. D'oh!
Some replanting required....