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

Ooh, let me know how they go, I just looked and that set looks lovely. I love the massive dinner plate ones!


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Filled some of the new lavender beds with soil and compost mainly just so it looks nicer when i look out lol

 

Spruce and noisette - yes it came back quite quickly really, I think from a rough seeding with scattered damp compost on top and keeping it moist probably only 4 weeks or so. It was the shock of it that was the worst and that I had done miles of it. Lesson learned.

Was just doing a little last minute clean up in the garden before guests arrive for christmas and trying to multi-task I got the wrong pastry out of the fridge, the garden tidy took longer than I expected, didn't hear the timer go off, so now have slightly singed Mince Puffs

 

Despite the 'orrible weather - I am determined not to sit inside during the Christmas hol's. So...today.... shifted two mounds of clay soil - one from planting some mature laurel (it's been there about 3 months I'm afraid) and the other from preparing a bedding area. Several trips to the hired skip. AND dug over compacted clay area - planted green manure (beans which are apparently good for breaking up clay) - and raked in some compost.

Now I can sit down inside without feeling guilty

 

Today I planted the last of the bargain basement narcissi my mum had got me along with a lovely black stemmed dogwood/cornus with 2 small buxus either side. This is in a strip behind a freestanding trellis which is quite wind exposed, post a pic tomorrow.
Couldn't resist the dogwood, the winter stems got me addicted but their autumn colour is lovely too.

"Kesselringii"




My addictions have gone from pelagoniums to dahlias to acers and now to shrubs!

 

Raining for the last two days, so until it dries out and I am home, nothing will get done. I am home from work Wednesday -Sunday, hope it is dry outside to do stuff. If not my house with all the mess will keep me busy.

 

Last day at work before Christmas.

The day had an almost surreal feel to it. I spent several hours mowing the lawns, as they have just carried on growing this autumn and needed a tidy up for the holiday period. With a mild breeze and warm sunshine with temperatures touching 14°C conditions were ideal, and yet it's just two days before Christmas, in the depths of December!

Once the grass cutting was done, the next job was to replant a couple of large wooden outdoor planters which had contained about 50 winter pansies. Something had eaten them (we suspect Muntjac deer), so we've replaced them with some Polyanthus which were spare winter bedding and hopefully won't get eaten.

While pulling out the pansies I found something buried in the compost, a bit of rummaging around revealed ... a whole dead partridge! Something, maybe one of the resident dogs or a fox perhaps, must have buried it there for later use. In the spirit of the season, I did think about taking it over to the orchard and hanging it up in a pear tree, but that would be silly wouldn't it?

As I said, a strange day.