WHAT ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2023

Off topic for a moment....

@Hanglow, where are the standing stones in your avatar please?

 

Some will die out naturally, but if you catch them young enough, it's easy to rub them out

 

Pulling up the old dried plants of the cosmos and cutting back the Verbena bonariences.

 

We did a bit of tidying up. Discovered my Photinia ‘Red Robin’, planted in the autumn, had one of its two stems broken (possibly the roofers with their ladders), so I cut the broken bit off and made cuttings from the stems. I dipped them in rooting compound and stuck them around the edge of a pot to see if anything comes of them.

 

still boring leaf removal.

 

Shiney you need a leaf blower.

 

Cut the grass! That's a first for Newcastle but I have finally realised that the naturalised bluebells will look much better and the lawn will be much less of a soggy bog if I cut it now before the bluebells grow too much.

Otherwise, just sat by the dining table doing birdwatching. Blue Tits were taking long baths in the pond and Sparrows are considering nesting. Robin is being awfully loud

 

You blow them off as they fall.
They will have stuck like glue by now.

 

I'm tatered Planted 8 perennials and a Rosa banksiae, cut down the old asparagus stems (250 crowns) and raked them and the dead weeds off to the bonfire heap. There have actually been new spears for three weeks now, probably because they were protected by the old stuff. Then tackled the polytunnel, cleared out the dead plants and old weed-proofing membrane and went over the soil several times with the rotovator. It's unusual to be able to do it at this time of year but there's been so little rain lately it wasn't too boggy
So, if I'd got the energy to cook them, we'd be having asparagus and sweet potatoes (a surprise find in the tunnel) with the venison roast tonight. It'll probably be bread and pâté and an early night instead

 

Whoppah, that's a beauty! A lovely tree indeed

I'm trying to agree with @pete without giving in to blow job jokes that are just waiting to happen