WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2018

@Verdun it's impossible to get rid of! I've dug LOADS out. It's a lot less that last year. Dug a bit more out yeaterday too.

 

We have a similar bed next to our garage wall. Two years ago we had this. A huge wisteria which we inherited when we bought the house in the seventies. I built the pergola expressly for it. Last year most of it died off, except for one branch at the right hand end, this runs along the top of the fence between the garage and the corner of the house and across the pergola over the back of the house.



We were then left with a blank wall. I've put horizontal wires at around a foot apart along the length of the wall. We've now a new wisteria and three clematis. Just to be contrary, the old wisteria has produced some new growth at both ends which I'm training up towards the pergola, as I've done with the new one in the middle.

We're not there yet, but it looks a lot better than a blank wall. I'm still concerned about the big branch of the old wisteria, I've put some silicone over the base of the root, to hopefully prevent any further decay. Presently it's doing it's best producing new shoots.



We've 6ft concrete post and waneylap panel fences all round our garden and I've drilled all the posts and wired them in the same way. We've an assortment of quinces and a wisterias trained along them. Nothing attached to the actual panels.

 

Snorky,
I know. It is almost impossible to dig out. Every piece of root, well roots!
You need to spray with glyphosate.
Once gave a piece of this to a neighbour.....I told her to keep it in a pot but her gardener moved it into her borders. It s...p...r...e...a...d all over the place popping up between her plants

 

Planted out the snapdragons and did a lot of watering.

 

Well this morning while it was dull and with no humidity..i thought get out there in the front garden, so my weeping willow was trimmed, my two Cordyline Australis and Red Star was sorted dead leaves removed from top and below plus extra roots cut away and peeling from the trunk and any weeds that ventured through the gravel and then sweeped the gravel level.

Weeping willow



Cordyline sorted and extra roots cut away besides dead lives removed.





Cordyline Red Star








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They look great.

 

Picking my strawberries, they are soooo nice
:D
Also have been making sure my sweetcorn is weed free

 

Have to disagree with you ARMANDII.....it is horrendous. Lovely looking yes. In pots...pool or outside..you can see how aggressive they are. Sooner or later it will emerge where it was never planted

 

Thanks Logan...i'm just having to keep an eye on the Codyline now because of shooting and cutting them out

 

In our local climate houttynia C. is a real problem. Many have problems eradicating it in our sandy soils
I guess the moral is to watch how plants grow, their habits etc., and then make a judgement call if they are worth keeping.
Even in the pool the roots escaped into the debris on the liner and was difficult to lift out. Now, it is trimmed and repotted every year.
Yep, lovely plant to look at, nice orange scented foliage so, as I said, a judgement call
Agree about some of the anecdotes.....I have always moved peonies without any problem....used to sell them in fact. And about camellias ....they grow perfectly well on my neutral soil

 

Carol and myself gave up about noon time, the weather forecast said 26oC but nearer 36oC in our garden! We did manage to plant out some cucamelons and I managed a bit of weeding, watering and potted on a few tomatoes.

Now naked, encouraging the dogs to wag their tails to create a breeze

 

Got a picture Vince?