What are we doing in the garden 2024

Don’t be silly @Loofah , nobody has that much sellotape .

 

I managed a couple of hours of clearing up and moving a few things around today. I planted two more bare root roses which arrived last week but it was too cold to plant them so I left them in the sealed wrap which the supplier said would be fine for up to three weeks. I soaked them overnight in a bucket of water. I cut down another Miscanthus which was shedding everywhere and pruned a Hydrangea paniculata which was also loosing its leaves and flowers. I blasted the leaves off the lawn with a leaf blower and found a new use for it - blow drying the flattened grass after walking on it when it’s wet lifts the grass upwards, causing less damage than a rake. I don’t approve of leaf blowers but they have their uses .

 

It was a work day for me today, but I was working from home so able to do a bit in my lunch break. The garden was completely covered in birch twigs thanks to Bert, so I collected up as much as I could access easily, and I fished the fallen leaves out of the pond. (This makes me happy I only have a tiny pond, I can easily reach them all without risking falling in!). I also planted a couple of small new shrubs I'd been sheltering since I bought them last week. I think the cosmos have now finally been finished off.