WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY - 2017

Sweating, lots

 

Water pots in the morning and this evening deadheaded foxgloves, roses and delphiniums. Tidied up the frost burnt hydrangea which have recovered nicely. Pruned some sort of bush into a nicer shape.

Messed about with the watering system to save some time watering.

Been looking at my heuchera and have deduced that some have a fungus :( so will be getting some spray tomorrow and cutting all the bad bits out.

 

@Irmenac ...... as promised .... Teigan when she was little. Who could possibly resist a baby hedgehog









I have more .......

 

What an awful thing to happen. Has Dotty done this before? Its always a shock when our pets do something unexpected, especially if its violent. I hope the cat is ok and you too??

 

OMG. Cutest hoggy ever!!! I've heard a lot of rustling in soem of the hedges in the back garden and hoping it's a hoggy.

She's chased cats out the garden but never been quick enough. Her pup Bea is really good withh cats as she used to stay with a woman who had a cat whilst my mum was at work-the cat would boss her about lol. The cat is ok....I think I was more shook up! The neighbour said its ok....the cat had just killed a bird! I guess it's just nature but i'll have to keep her on a lead ALL the time now. It was weird that the cat didnt run away-just puffed up its tail etc. Apparently the cat is really young and very friendly-so maybe it's never come across a dog before.

 

Clarence





Poppy



Jaye Jaye



Eddw

 

Thanks @shiney , I remember that video now! Makes it even more surprising that the cat didn't do anything?! Dotty was certainly proud of herself afterwards.



@luciusmaximus those hoggies are absolutely gorgeous. Is it odd that I look at a human baby and I'm not interested whatsoever....but i feel completely opposite for a cute animal. They are sooo lovely.

 

@luciusmaximus those hoggies are absolutely gorgeous. Is it odd that I look at a human baby and I'm not interested whatsoever....but i feel completely opposite for a cute animal. They are sooo lovely. [/QUOTE]

Quite normal, I am exactly the same. Often prefer the company of my pets to that of humans

 

Aww I love squizzers. At our old house we had loads of oak trees and dotty would go mad trying to chase them. She would literally spend hours sat under a tree watching them.

 

He he just got back from Leighton Buzzard garden centre invitation only sale day. Got myself some bargains. 4 astibles...2 big/2 small, eidlweiss (?), a big callicarpa and another beautiful perennial that I dont know the name of, and 3 big pots for planting up some purchases i made at GWLive. All for £80. He he.

 

Been up to the lotty today as it has been cloudy with a nice breeze. Weeded it all and planted some of the harrier squash id been growing. Cut down the green manure and dug it over on the neighbours plot. Cut and weeded all of their pathways. Harvested some more strawbs.

 

Did a bit more clearing of this



The overgrowth was level with the cherry tree on the left. Its taken me 3 days to get to this point, just doing a little each day. Now I can actually see it I'm undecided as to what to do with it - as usual .

The area past the concrete pot I'm leaving as it is. I've seen hedgehogs go that way, so may slide a house in there. It goes through to what is going to be the secret garden.

 

Love the idea of a secret garden....that's my plan if we get the 5 acre plot next to the house.