WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2017

It was a beautiful sunny day here yesterday and I watered the pots and new plants yesterday evening. While going on a slug hunt later it had rained so I needn't have bothered.

Today the rain continues but it's that drizzly stuff that hardly wets the ground. I went in the garden to cheer myself up and was pleased to see my roses were having a second flush of blooms. Also the nepeta is flowering again. I'm not sure what the purple spired flower (veronica?)is in the third image but it's a good one for this time of the year. Rogue poppy in there too but I've given up on trying to eradicate them.

Other border plants still giving - I love my garden

 

did the deed. have to check in daylight if I got them all.

 

@alana Beautiful garden.

 

Beautiful Alana - the pink flower in the third pic looks like a - physostegia

 

Ah thanks @Perki - next year I'll definitely keep the labels

 

Bit late now, but spent all day Saturday weeding, deadheading and mowing the lawns. Sunday planted out some lettuce seedlings in the Greenhouse and took a few Cuttings.

 

Really got into my Compost this year, just turned out another bin full. Sieved some of the gear to lay on a bed in the Greenhouse, just layed out the rest on top of a few beds as we have quite heavy clay soil. Some lovely gear i must say.

 

Over the last few days I've been messing around with my new pond, very much on a budget. Bought some marginal plants and baskets off ebay, so I now have bog bean, toad fern, water forget-me-not and miniature rushes as well as zantedischia. Oh and a litte solar fountain pump. Shells, broken slates and pebbles which I already had around have been rearranged, and I've also added a pile of dead wood to one side, scrounged from my neighbours, and installed a wildlife ladder, made from an abandoned piece of plastic grille (from a car radiator?) and some cable ties.

Message to the two large frogs who I had to evict while I took out the old pond: you can come back now, it's safe! And there are insect 'bar snacks'!

 

It looks lovely @Clare G

 

seems a few bees left, like 4. will have to do it again tonight to make sure all is gone.

 

By the time I lost count of the number of wheelbarrows ; metric tonnes or imperial didn't make a great deal of difference !

 

2 thornless blackberrys I picked up from B&M a couple of years ago
Below is the third bowl, giving us about a bowl every week and still loads more to come.

Looks like crumble for tea tonight

 

Yum yum jimcub

 

Yesterday's first froggy visitor in the new pond. He spent a good hour exploring and just chilling before leaving, I hope to tell his friends all about it!