WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2022

All tomatoes now in final pots and arranged in greenhouse, several large pots moved out. Sticks put into for peas, runner and french beans hardened off. Planted out a mahonia (M gracilis).
Watered as required.
Pruned Buddleja paniculata now it has finished flowering.

 

What a lovely display of colour you'll have Michael, they look fabulous.

 

Thank you @Upsydaisy, there are more than that but I didn't take photos of them all ...

 

Wow!, Your garden will look amazing!

 

Have you considered getting a ride-on lawn mower?

 

They'll be fine FC.....I grew them in the Greenhouse years back and never heard about block planting or even gave pollination a thought and we had crops to enjoy.

 

They used to say run your hand through the Male flowers ,on warm sunny days, and then the same hand through the silks on the forming cobs.
It transfers the pollen directly to where it wants to go.
It can become a habit.

 

No, it's the same size mate, I've just mindlessly packed far more plants into it this year! The trouble with actaeas is that they seem to take so long to bulk up and flower quite briefly, I initially grew 'Brunette' then gave it to a mate and replaced with 'Pink Spike', which is supposed to have a far longer flowering period, but time will tell. That's a Veronicastrum 'Fascination' but I also have an 'Album' in there. Most of the border is eryngiums (7 different ones) and scabiosa/knautia (so many of these I've lost count at this stage!). 'Blackadder' has become a decent-sized plant and although 'Blue Fortune' is hardier, it hasn't established as well in a container, perhaps it needs to be in the ground. There's a Caryopteris 'Dark Knight' next to the actaea which will hopefully provide a true blue amongst all the purple and attract plenty of butterflies, might add another one to the border if that one's a success!

Nick

 

I started off by hand-weeding some of the borders in the front garden. My boss started out by planting out some of the many Petunias we have in trays. She also stole most of the Dianthus I had earmarked for my bit of garden. Luckily she left me two. We received 40 Antirrhinums this morning, so It was back out to plant those later in the day. She potted up two tubs with a dozen in each tub so I had to shoot off to B&Q for a further 300 Litres of compost.
On my return, I got my unused cordless hedge trimmer out (unused because we get a gardener in to cut the hedge for us) and trimmed the straggly bits on the top of the hedge we see from our living room window!

 

Started planting up a border, got 3 pots of lilies that I put in and some cosmos, going to plant some Snapdragons tomorrow.

 

Not much today just took the large dahlias / salvia's out of the GH to make room so I can plant the tomatoes in the border .

@Nikolaos V.Fasination is a fast clumper I have 2 large clumps was 3 until I lifted one this spring I am give plant away for fun now . It probably is my favourite out of the 3 variety's I grow. My Actaea JC doesn't seem to grow much at all I've had it for years.

 

As it's sunny today, I'm contemplating getting up a ladder to prune most of the new Rambling Rose stems before they become enormous like last year (they're already about 1m in length). Is that a good idea or should it be left while flowering?