What are we doing in the garden 2025

Yes done some gardening!

Planted a new Escallonia, dismantled my sweet pea canes, pulled up old fern leaves, de-weeded some pots, trimmed bits and bobs and generally pottered about.

 

Been out in the garden briefly today - just general tidying up.
It was lovely to hear and see a pair of robins returning. Hopefully they will nest in their usual place.
A pair of blue tits were also about, hogging the bird feeder.
Spring is in the air.

 

My Ipsahan reaches for the stars too @lizzie27 currently enveloping an 8ft obelisk

 

Visited the new garden centre that replaced the old Dobbies in the morning, saved a lot of money since they a) had a very long queue to the restaurant and b) didn't stock my favourite variety of plants, the "Reduced To Clear sp. "

Possibly as they have only been open a week or so they didn't have any lovely nearly gone ones for a stingy person like me to grab something at a bargain price.

Anyways, came home minus bangers&mash but with a tiny Saxifraga to replace the one Mr Blackbird disagreed with, a Salty Something from the herbs section and a Chamomile because The Child remembered the walks around the fields during the lockdown when the farmer went all out with Chamomiles. All safely potted up.

Sorted out the potting disaster created when we moved into this house last August and just had to chuck things here and there. The tiny rose got nicely potted on with plenty of bagged manure (advertised as peat free- I never knew manure could be or not to be peat based... ) and bravely ripped the two 75p Dianthus in halves and potted them in the large shallow pot to replace the Cyclamen that went into the other shallow pot relocated out of sight.

I do love plant Tetris

Whilst in the garden centre we spotted wellie boot socks with a Pheasant pattern and just had to buy them for The Child who has a thing with pheasants.



And because The Child had a treat, I allowed myself to invest in a Maranta houseplant

Potting and sorting out is all done, and the patio is somewhat swept to prevent at least some layers of mud-compost-whatnots from travelling indoors.