What jobs are we doing in the Garden today 2015

I started planting out annuals today and will continue until the weekend......no doubt I'll be dodging the rain showers that are promised.

 

Spent this morning planting out more dahlias, potting on congested shrubs and a rose, tidying the 'industrial area' now we've burned most of it, feeding bulbs and watering everything in the greenhouse.
I've also begun deadheading the bluebells as they finish- really starting to dislike them! Accidentally pulled up one of my aquilegias in doing so as well.

 

I know how you feel about the Bluebells Charlie. I don't let them get as far as finishing but top them as soon as I see them in bloom. They're in my garden by self invitation and I can't see where they came from in the neighbourhood, they are also starting to come up in my lawns, so it's war!

I was going to continue planting out annuals today but the weather has decided differently, so all I've done is wash pots and trays and the canes have been pushed in for the tomatoes.

 

Planted up some Cosmos. Did a bit of watering and weeding. Emptied out a container and chucked some foxgloves that vine weevil grubs had demolished. Came back inside as the weather has turned vile!

 

Chopped a young tree (planted by bird/wind) down, chopped down more hedging, chopped down tonnes of ivy and brambles - garden is getting there, slowly but surely.
In the brutal stage at the moment, taming the jungle

 

A nice spring sunnyish day today and for a change mild at 17c so got on with one of the many jobs on my to-do list, getting rid of an overgrown, sparse and falling over photina - been steadying it with guy ropes and all sorts the last few years but its time was up sadly. Clearing the bed underneath was a right chore too, stubborn weeds and all sorts, bones (old doggy ones I hope!) bits of coal ...

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Didn't like doing it, but glad I did as what was around it has a lot more space to grow properly and the aspect is much more open now. Also have a new part of that bed to think about ....

Tired now time for a glass of vino.

GG

 

Your garden looks stunning
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It looks like one of those landscaped gardens around s stately home, you don't live at Blenheim Palace do you?

 

After reading what you guys have been doing today my little bit seems feeble. Managed two coats of protection on the garden / seat / table thingy. Painted the house lecky box and a wee garden concrete frog. Then planted out the last of the Asters and binned the failures. Now it's chunking it down but this red is delightful. Have a good evening everyone.. Oh yes, it's raining now. But that was a certainty after I topped up the rain water barrel!

 

I totally agree! A medium sized thermo-nuclear device is generally recommended to totally get rid of them

 

I think our new seep hose just changed my life! :D


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Retail therapy at the garden centre been put off until tomorrow, hubby had changed his shift to afternoon's....

All I managed to do garden wise, was watering and sitting in it.... Tis the sitting in it that has stressed me, as I was trying to do my Med's course work... Time is running out and I've got to get modules back for marking.... And yesterday, given a list of courses to come from my manager which a couple will be done at the same time agahhh...

 

Did the seeds arrive?

 

Sorry Zigs, did mean to put it in..

Yes the did, cheered me up no end when I got home from work last night, going to be planting them out at the allotment tomorrow evening....

Thankyou for sending them

 

We put some shading up the greenhouse as the plants and young veggies were starting to wilt with the heat. It's much better in there now and cooler.

I also painted some terracotta pots and troughs and filled them full of plants.They will look lovely when in flower.