What Jobs are we doing in the Garden today 2014..

I've friends like that too Kristen....I force them to walk around the garden and be interested
They do like the garden but not what's involved in maintaining it,Just to get my own back we pass by the barrel of comfrey tea and I purposely can't resist giving it a stir....their faces are a picture

 

Blast! Rumbled!

Indeed and the Host and Hostess do like to fill the house with weekend guests, so it wasn't all bad!!

 

Loads if dead heading and tidying.
Tidied up the heucheras and took some cuttings (dunno if it's the right time )

 

Dead headed everything that needed it, pulled out some Cleome that were finished then attacked the crocosmia. Cut off all leaves and tomorrow will dig up as many bulbs as I possibly can. Never manage to get all of them up, some always escape. But really want to clear them from where they are just now as they are just too messy and I have other plans for that border

 

I abandoned the garden today, to windy and to noisy!

 

Cut the grass,tidied the borders,washed pots and put away for the year..

 

I don't have any qualms about digging up any,which I miss, when they are in growth. They might miss a year's flowering for being disturbed, but in the long term they join the crowd

 

Which is why it took so long for me to show you, and more importantly Mrs S, around my garden

 

Got all the crocosmia dug up. Hundreds upon hundreds of bulbs and it was just a 10m x 1m bed. Some will be replanted elsewhere, a lot will just have to be binned, no room for them. Divided and replanted/relocated some callas that were in the same bed and chopped down 3 huge shrubs that were taking over. Kernackered now.

 

Jenny

 

1) Collected loads more Salvia patens light/dark blue seeds. Got about 60 of each and there's loads more to follow.
2) These came yesterday - too windy to work with them outdoors so just let them breathe

and today they got planted up - plenty of time to settle and harden up before Winter



Alstromeria Rock and Roll. All your fault @Spruce - you led me astray,
Jenny

 

the quality are 80% better than I had , Jen if possible can you keep them in the bottom of you mini plastic greenhouse over winter ?
they area bit floppy to start off with but will soon pick up when the new shoots come up

I will take a photo of mine in September as they are still in flower

I am after this one for next year Perfect Blue is the variety