What are we doing in the garden 2025

Watered the pots with the daffodils in.

 

I've been gradually getting around the garden cutting back, weeding and mulching. I planted 6 of the perennial plants I bought recently, which took longer than I thought because of the clay soil. I mixed a lot of compost in with it. I've also planted 30 violas in beds in the last couple of days. I love violas.

I was upset when we got back from the SM this morning. The roses in my round bed were all shooting nicely with baby leaves and a deer has got into the garden and eaten a lot of them. Its little hoof prints were in the bed. I think it was most likely early this morning and I probably frightened it when I came downstairs to make coffee and drew the curtains and switched on lights. Luckily it hadn't been to the top end of the garden. We haven't had a deer since I frightened one and OH raised the height of the top of the garden fences. The garden is on a bit of a slope so there is a top and a bottom. I spent an hour putting up the electric fence across the bottom. The fence is a nuisance because it's between the barn where I keep the car and gardening stuff and the garden.

I sowed mangetout peas today too, in pots. Every time I sow peas or beans in the veg garden something eats them. Anyway I haven't started the veg garden yet.

 

I sympathise with you @luciusmaximus , nothing worse than noisy neighbours.
@Busy-Lizzie ,what a shame about your roses. Hope they recover okay.

 

Today I removed a large leaved variegated ivy (Herdera Gloire de Marengo) which I’ve been growing on a half obelisk against the fence in my upper garden. After several years, I decided that the green was too blue for my liking (fussy ), it’s boring, and the marks that the sucker pads made on the fence were getting out of hand. So it had to go! I dug it up, rearranged the sandstone blocks at the foot of the fence to keep four legged intruders out and repainted the fencing where it had been marked. I have ordered a Clematis Hagley Hybrid to replace the ivy. I then moved a Euonymus Green Spire into the border where I removed a bamboo recently, to get some upright evergreen interest. Finally I removed the dead leaves from three Seslerias, just using my hand. Last year I cut them to ground level, which was a mistake as they took a long time to regain their dome shape. Lesson learned! They are nice, small, evergreen grasses, ideal for filling gaps in shady areas.