What are we doing in the garden 2025

I've seen an advert for some pressure washer attachment where a woman is washing her fence, and it made me go WTF? since when are we expected to wash our fences?

Mind you there's an awful lot of bird poop on mine at the moment ..

One of my neighbours had their roof washed. I'd always thought our estate was built with dark brown tiles, but apparently they're a weird yellowish colour. It looked awful, especially as it was a semi-detached house so there was a stark line with next door. And the algae and moss just looked all the more obvious when it started coming back.
I mentioned it to a colleague who said their next door neighbour had done the same, it was just blasted with a pressure washer and all the moss and muck came over his side, over his conservatory roof and driveway and into his gutters!

 

ahh but these are tiny, the beginners set came with a mini 20 and a midi 4, so when (if) they germinate and grow to the next stage each will be potted up into a block from the midi 4. All in the heated propagator in an unheated greenhouse, then unheated propagator, then just greenhouse, then cold frame, then planted out. Very early days in my blocking journey!

 

I'm back from OH's garden in Norfolk to my garden in Dordogne. Things are starting to grow, new shoots all over the place. We left my garden in January looking rather bleak. I'd sorted some beds and mulched them but I hadn't finished. I'd pruned about 2/3 of the roses. I've planted 44 since I moved here 4 years ago, there were only 3.

I spent a few hours in the garden this afternoon pruning, weeding and mulching the round rose bed. I think I will be stiff tomorrow, in fact I'm stiff now. It was full of weeds. It was fine last autumn. Where did those brambles, cinquefoil, daisies, dandelions, bittercress etc come from?

Most of the daffodils are blind. Last year my French handyman mowed them all down as soon as they finished flowered. I had asked him to wait until the leaves died but he said it looked messy. He did it while I was in Norfolk. He's left now. I have a new English handyman who will mow the grass when we are away and trim the hedge.

 

I'm hoping the Agapanthus might revive. I did try to sprinkle seeds sparingly , but difficult with poppy seeds as so tiny, with the idea I won't have much thinning to do if the live long enough to get to that stage . Always possibility that I might have more growing space, too.

 

Well done ,

 

Sounds like a plan! I like a mystery seedling … but it looks more vigorous than the Corydalis so separating them will be best.

 

Mummy Hellebore ...

Baby Hellebore ...



It's rather pretty so I'm not unhappy, just surprised.

 

This is what I did today, ready to plant seed Potatoes in bags

 

Repaired my cold frame. The top polycarbonate was like lace! And I need to put more seedlings in there to make room in the greenhouse. Also did some weeding. Why do they grow so well?
@ViewAhead if that's one of plants from Farmyard then I'd try keeping it. I bought a Kniphofia with a spiranthes growing in it, and a Primula seiboldii with a dactylorrhiza in it from them!

 

Cleared some weeds from one area and then we tackled the veg patches. "Found" loads of moolis and small beetroots that we thought had all rotted out. So 2 areas cleared now and hopefully more to follow.

 

I've been out digging up spanish bluebells and general clearing up. I turned up an old penny, 1914. There wasn't anything here but farmland until about 1950. Got visions of some poor labourer losing their beer money!

 

Are you doing the M11?