WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2018

Sounds great @ARMANDII it will make a big difference from now through to spring.

 

Yesterday potted on 87 polyanthus plants. Didn't know that I had so many.
Hello @Flumpy and welcome.

 

Pinched back wallflowers, again, and stocks yesterday. Makes for bushier plants ....they will still produce 80 to 90 cm bushes....and delays flowering only briefly.
Buxus microphylla variegata moved to accommodate daphne odora aureo marginata.

 

Today has been mainly cutting stuff back. Lower leaves of the Cordylines pulled off (strangely satisfying job). Ligularia, sedums, fennel cut down. Gunera leaves folded over the crown, lower T Rex leaves cut off. Fruit trees prunded. Then harvested the last of the seed from mina lobata

 

Got the ceramic pot ready for the replacement "tree rose" I'm getting from T&M which will be delivered next week.

It was one of these. We'd only had it a couple of months when a strong wind blew the grafted rose off the trunk. it wasn't a very secure graft.




Wired our Stella cherry, new to us last year. Used some plastic clothes line, so it won't rub. It did well last year with a lot of foliage.



Not sure if it will fruit next year, might be too early.
As with a lot of plants, the shape was less than satisfactory, one or two crossing branches that were also rubbing.
This treatment will help it achieve a more regular shape, when I remove the restraints in April.

 

Dug up some parsnips and cleaned the bird table and changed the water keep getting leaves falling in it.

 

I bet that was money well spent at the time

Cats can get where water cant

 

Not much to do, i intend to cut some sage, but it's raining heavily at the moment.

 

Just looking at it in the sunshine as it is lush and green with Brugmansia, Tecomaria ans Tecoma stans in bloom.

 

I gave my Flymo a service.
Now in the old days, when all mowers were steel, you put a nice green mower in the garage at the end of September and in April you pulled out a pile of seized-up rust.

Now with plastic being in common usage for mowers that doesn't happen.

With what we're often faced these days, with lots of stuff, is "No user serviceable parts accessible."

To service this mower I had to take it to bits. But it's just six screws and the abilty to open some clips without damaging them. You won't believe how much grass can get into "inaccessible" places. Also it's impossible to clean the filter without taking the body apart.

Anyway, job done motor, blade and fan bearings lubricated. a mixture of 3 in 1 for some and silicone for nylon bearings. Then a good clean.

What with climate change, mowing is still necessary at least once a month through the winter.
Also, with its big fan behind the blade, which blows the cut grass up into the grass box, mine is great as a leaf collector on a "high cut" setting.

 

Our replacement "tree rose," arrived from T&M and has been potted up.
Now our total rose collection is twenty-six, twenty-four in pots/tubs on the patio or its steps, or along the drive to the side of our house and two more in borders.
I think that's enough!

 

More of the same here today. It was a dry day so I took the opportunity to cut back another hedge. The skip was pretty full until I got in there and trampled the hedge prunings down. Ran out of energy and enthusiasm at 2pm which means that I have another 20ft or so to prune back and then the skip can be sent back.