What are we doing in the garden 2025

@NigelJ, the legal limit for a fence is 2 metres high - in old money that's 6ft 6inches. It must be a cracking big dog if it can jump a 2 metre fence. I wonder if the chaps will ever come back and finish the job?

I think we must have that nasty bug @LunarSea , I'm still suffering and OH is about to go down with it as well. We've had to cancel our family Easter visits which is a shame.

I pruned the Salvia Cero Potosi bushes, a bit late this year but as they'd already suffered some frost damage, no harm was done. I think they are on their last legs but I've been saying that for years.

Then I messed about with an old spare piece of trellis and in the end lashed it to the end of an existing run to provides more privacy by my Hanging Chair. Tied in the bamboo screening using plastic ties which these days I find much easier to use although they don't look very pretty. Needs must and all that.

Rain stopped play. Got all my buckets out!

 

Fairly chunky and about 24 - 30 in at the shoulder, his concern is that it well jump over.
I'm just wondering what happens when the local badgers dig under the fence.
Yes they came back late afternoon and have now got their 5 posts in. Height doesn't bother me as it doesn't shade anything and I'll continue just to dump branches and such like in that area

 

Two gallons is about 8 lbs of parsnips, which is a lot of peeling and a lot of waste for the compost heap.

 

When we used to make parsnip wine, the recipe was using the parsnip boiling water. We then used to make parsnip chips with the cooked parsnips - yummy!!

 

All I’ve done in the garden today is tie in my Clematis at the bottom of the arch. The lawn seems to have grown overnight after that rain and it looks greener - the MO Bacter can’t be working already, surely not, or does the MO stand for Magic Overnight? .

 

not sure where all my garden shots went over the years. I can't post pics here as they are too large, so not planning to fiddle with that. But today did a short video.

 

Sowed the first Morning Glory seeds in trays in the tunnel. Seeds collected from last years plants. Then tackled the ever increasing Arum maculatum that really is taking over so many areas of the garden. Continued with removing heavily infested ivy growing up and in 2 pear trees and an apple. Haven't seen the trunks for years! Lovely to see them again.

 

Waved the strimmer around! Now to tackle the edges.

 

Volunteer day at Capel Manor yesterday. I should be on Allotments planting spuds but ended up pottering about in the garden this am, now can't raise the energy to go.

 

did another walk about. will be out to dig some weeds later.

 

My wife's plug plants arrived today, while she was lunching with a friend. So, I removed them from their packaging, and placed in a tray of water.
The interesting part is that the label on the package says they are one thing, and the enclosed description says they are something else.
She bought them as a "special offer", which probably means she was sent precisely what they were unable to sell at normal price.
Thirty of them have now been potted up, with another 42 to do tomorrow. First though, "someone" had to break up crocks, produce a mixture of compost and horticultural grit, and fill the pots.
Then "someone" had to find some seed trays to put all the pots in.
My wife also arrived home with two clematis. "Someone" will have to plant those tomorrow.

 

I planted a Clematis H F Young in a pot with an obelisk after three weeks of hardening off as it was looking tired and in need of some fresh compost. It sulked briefly but I put a garden chair in front of it to protect it from the afternoon sun and it perked up. I emptied a container of leaning daffodils (very annoying ) and replanted it with an Osteospermum Tresco Purple and some mixed trailing Lobelias. I also potted up a bright red Pelargonium with nicely zoned leaves and moved a Persicaria Fat Domino into a better location as it was getting too close to a rose. My three Dahlias are now at the pinching out stage, I gave them an airing in the sun for a while before returning them to the windowsill in the garage where I have to keep rotating them to stop them leaning .

 

I've got the leaning daffodils problem too @Plantminded! They all grew ridiculously tall, and then the wind came and flattened them. I went out and cut most of them at lunchtime, and now I've got two big vases full in the house. Nicely fragrant ones too.
Also found the foxes had tipped over my trough of "Lucky Number" daffodils, for the second time. But they are just about finished now anyway.

 

@Plantminded , we bought a H F Young clematis a few weeks ago now and after hardening it off, got it into the ground. Think it’s still settling in as although it’s looking healthy, we don’t have that much growth on it yet. Some, but not a lot. I’m hoping with the warm days and some rain it’ll start growing away. At the same time as I planted HF Young out, I also planted clematis Bees Jubilee - that is doing extremely well and is romping away up the trellis in the same border.

 

I was a bit nervous about mine @Songbird, it came with a warning from the supplier that it needed to be hardened off for three weeks. I've put it in a pot for the first year so that I can move it around if necessary. It came with good growth. Already there are two flowers forming so I have good expectations! Good luck with yours .