WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2021

Soil still very claggy but I managed to weed enough to plant onion sets. Then it was so lovely and sunny that I didn't want to go in....so weeded round broad beans and where the runner beans will eventually go . Now I'm trying not to think about my aching back.....not sure if because of doing too much first time out after the winter or because my RA is bad at the moment, probably a bit of both. It's forecast to rain tomorrow so will catch up on seed sowing.

 

I am thinking here it is similar weather to yours, my planting is quite frantic at the moment as I just more colour in the garden ,but also want plants that mainly came back again and again...Well we can all be slim on hereand beauties to boot...

 

Two views of one on the benches Mr. W put together at our previous home..There was a terrible storm one year and one ship carrying tons and tons of various wood lost a great deal of it to the sea. In turn it came to shore and people with permission were allowed to clear the beach. Amongst our looking over the wood we found this driftwood which became the bench.
I thought about ours at Pebbles after seeing Sian in Belgium's lovely pond and her bench earlier this morning.....where you see the rocks was the stream and further back to the right you can just see one of the Wells we had... Everything except the Lonicera Nitida Hedging and the Conifer hedging to the back left... in this front garden, we planted over the 14 years we lived there...

 

Despite all you meanies laughing at my comment about my painful leg earlier ( duly noted that you didn't @Logan ...thank you.), I've spent the afternoon hobbling around my garden lifting and re -homing lots of Snowdrops.

 

This rockery is also coming along with some more colour, the weed are horrendous here and I do have to keep coming back and clearing them out before they take hold......

Getting more colour...at the back left near the Fig Tree is a Leycesteria formosa Golden Lanterns, also called a Himalayan Honeysuckle, had this two years now and has attractive bracts later on in the summer..Says in my book cut week shoots to ground level in early Spring..do I or don't I ,as surely I would loose the bracts now...?


I honestly thought I had killed this Clematis a few weeks ago as I pruned it within
a breath of it's life, I can remember reading on GC that prune to around 20 cms,
well I had already done this one to around 5 cms..but you can see it is shooting..

Wallflowers in thanks to good advice on GC again..Going to add some different plants than the ones I have put in as want these planters to be a tad more of a than they are right now..

 

I did not either, @Upsydaisy I know how my daughter's knee was as a teenage, required some surgery and all plastered up for a few months, hers kept dislocating and she now has almost permanent pain it seems..does not stop her doing her carer's job which means the world to her, never in a million years could I see her in that caring type job..as a trained hairdresser of many years she would say I do not want to do the twirlies hair, Mum etc......

 

Your welcome
I know what it's like to have a bad knee, mine still feels as if it's stiff, i can't bend it like the other one and it aches more if I neel on it, but never mind it could have needed a operation but I was dead against it. Take care with it upsydaisy.

 

Thanks yes I dead against an op too @Logan

 

I had a bad habit at Pebbles, the terrain was a nightmare for tripping or falling over. Always seem to fall on the knees, then months of not being able to knell and almost get over and another whoops er daisy. By the time we moved over ,here my knees were good again..then when we were mad decorators, feeling exhausted I just fell badly again on stone floors just for a change, including the knees again....Tell you what girls we could see if we can have a knees up...

 

Its been a rotten day windy and rain . Popped to the GC this morning and got a few bags of manure and a bag of jacks magic nothing else to be had. Back home and potted up my dahlias which have come through the winter mostly unscathed, I stored them in woodchip this time but I think blasting the excess compost with the hose from around the tubers was more beneficial , I did leave one dahlia not cleaned by the hose and that had noticeably more rotten tubers than any other. I were looking at some larger pots at the GC for the dahlias but assumed I had enough I have hundreds pots but never the right size I want, might be because I seem to be acquiring more plants by the year and keep propagating off them.

Sowed some verbena seeds while in the GH and sadly chucked some pelargoniums in the compost trug looks like the frost has got them, think I'll be putting a lot more pelargoniums and fuchsias in the compost heap this year.

 

sorry.....it is only chatting over the garden fence with others also.....

 

that's true....