What are we doing in the garden 2024

Potted up 9 lily bulbs into 3 pots.

 

Managed to plant out some snowdrops bought at specialist garden I visited last weekend - Galadriel and Modern Art varieties. Also planted Daphne odora and pots of Tenby daffodils and Lent lily (narcissus obvallaris and pseudonarcissus). Amazingly it was bright and warm for a few hours!

 

Transferred 15 self seeded Antirihinums into single pots ready to be found a permanent home in the borders in a month or twos time rather than in the pathways .
Potted up 12 more Geranium cuttings that I took last Autumn and 3 Fuchsia ones too.
Checked over all the Lillies that have spent the Winter in their refreshed pots under the greenhouse staging., All looking good..
Repotted 2 Heuchera cuttings.
Divided up a big Bacopa plant into many new ones and as it was in bloom I also cut it back to conserve it's strength / energy.

 

Here are a couple more pics I took yesterday so as to give an idea of what I mean when I say our balcony, on the ground floor, projects out about 12 inches compared to the 5 balconies above us.
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@Balc I see now. Would the Council/Complex/whoever allow you to install a (non permanent) awning, perhaps rollout for safety reasons?

 

What about a narrow perspex one maybe?



...just a thought.. they will then undoubtedly use it as a perch and then of course you'll have cleaning issues. Hmmmm maybe not advisable after all.

 

Ah but...just remembered you're on the ground floor ..so a well aimed regular shower from a hose might work.

 

Planted the last 3 pots of the potted crocus and helped hubby prune the roses, with supervision,he tried to do too much and his muscles ache in his back. I also did some weeding and watching the bees go in the hellebores.

 

[QUOTE="Upsydaisy,
No most definitely not @infradig ....super soaker or not is irrelevant, it would still be used as a 'weapon ' against a living creature. Something , considering the state of the aggression being displayed around the world today, we must not emulate in front of our children. [/QUOTE]

What !,
different standards for our poor neglected feathered friends!
Pigeons lives matter, they are for life
not just flying steak sandwiches.....
(tic)

 

What !,
different standards for our poor neglected feathered friends!
Pigeons lives matter, they are for life
not just flying steak sandwiches.....
(tic)[/QUOTE]



Very cleverly quoting me out of context...so I will clarify myself........I was taking about keeping the canopy clean..hence ..'well aimed regular shower from a hose' ......By regular I meant once or twice a week, sorry didn't think I needed to spell it out.

This was in reference to my post above as I contemplated cleaning problems would arise from my suggestion.

I certainly do not have different standards for any living creature I can assure you.

 

Carted all the trays of seedlings out into the greenhouse for their dose of good quality daylight and some occasional sunshine.

Prepared some trays in readiness for more sowings.

Opened up the big lean to coldframe and checked over the Strawberry plants in the smaller one..all looking good.

 

I,ve had a leaning small tree of fiejoa in the garden for some time, I think it got partially blown over in a gale and I've had a rope on it for ages to help support it.
Finally decided to cut most of the branches off on the side it's leaning to, in the hope it will help to balance the head up.

 

Hi,

It seems whatever I do in the gardens the weather does it's best to spoil it. Huge trees storm damaged so I became fed up of the annual tree removal and two years ago removed 17 trees with another two removed last year.


We can't have anything nice without weather damage; it's usual to see daffodils poking through snow but so far the heavy rain is flattening them. A few weeks ago I was silly enough to put in almost 100 plug plants; with so much heavy rain 8 of these plug plants were floated out of the soil; perhaps I should have nailed them in or added an anchor to each.

I take great care with our wildflower meadows but for the last four years the weather has flattened them so badly I ended up strimming the lot sick of seeing them; just one year out of five years the wildflowers were stunning; will they be left alone this year?


Top meadow.

Top meadow then along came the big bad weather.

We've now got three wildflower meadow areas in our rear garden after removal of the trees; it's cost over £100 for the wildflower seeds; will my hard work be rewarded by the weather destroying the flowers again.

Amazingly we had a decent dry spell yesterday and for a change no heavy rain last night but heavy rain is forecast for later today.

Living here on the steep exposed valley side we suffer extremes of weather not only with damage to the gardens but also constantly fighting to maintain the bungalow.

I'm not moaning it's just the way things have been for the last 36 years; we love it here so will continue to fight on. Fingers crossed I can post some nice pictures of our meadows in bloom this year.

Kind regards, Colin.

 

Colin, that's the trouble with the tall daffodils, i usually prop them up with a stick.

Cut down the old stems of the Japanese anemones, dug out some clumps of grass around the lavender, can't dig it all out because the tulips close by. Planted 3 lupins in-between 2 lavenders, hoping that they'll grow through the stems of the lavender flowers.
Bought another packet of verbena bonariences seeds and sowed some. The plants in the garden have come through the winter because it's been a mild one.