WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2018

You're waffling now.


What part of this in my post did you not understand?


What you need to do now with or without a collar is get the thing level, not just each end of the pool but also determine how high you want the pool in relation to the rest of the garden. You need a really long length of straight 3" X 2" and at least a 2ft spirit level.


Read your own post before you start denying you were criticising mine.


I've not "argued" I pointed out that you criticised my advice and you wanted to argue that you hadn't.

And give over with the childish smilies, they don't impress.

 

Black Adder prob will not survive this cold spell. I treat it really as an annual despite keeping clumps outdoors over winter. Wet and cold is fatal.
Like salvias and other agastaches, cuttings make for better plants. They are less woody therefore more likely to produce more flowers esp if the cuttings are taken early....in mid summer .....for the following year

 

We're possibly into some really cold weather in the next week or so. Plants in patio pots are some of those at risk.
Not just the plants, some of the earthenware pots which aren't "proofed" can blast out.

I may put a few which are susceptible in the shed which has two tabletop freezers in there that generate some heat and some in the tea-house, the jukebox heaters keep that building at around 40f.

In the past I've used some fleece and bubble-wrap around the pots, but I've too many of them now.

 

I took some cutting but they all failed must of not had enough drainage or they didn't like being in the propagator .
It hasn't rained for a whole week , I'll just wait and see. Could of added some to my order yesterday but dunno whats going to happened yet .

 

My cuttings of agastaches are inserted into 80% perlite. Agree Perki....dont think the propagator is ideal.

 

Ive not done anything in the garden today only look in it, i do hope the primroses survive they look quite nice with some snow on them.

 

The slope on the front garden is so slight that it's not noticeable when standing in it. I only realised it was there once digging commenced. There were no issues at all when the bath pond went in. I expected a liner pond to be a little more work but not to this degree. It seems quite ridiculous to me that two reasonably intelligent adults can't get it right after several attempts. I have looked at several videos and read accompanying written instructions on how to put in a pond. But, as Martin - f has said I haven't looked that much at pictures of wildlife ponds. So, I will do that.

I'm not keen on a concrete collar as A/ the pond is a wildlife pond and B/ costs are beginning to escalate.

@ARMANDII we did use a spirit level, wooden plank and stakes.

I did consider making the pond hole into the bog garden and digging another hole. Probably another silly idea.

 

Good advice ARMANDII . Thanks for the link. I noticed that in this video the liner was draped over the bank and then just cut off all the way around. Would not water and debris find a way into the gap between the liner and the underlay? I thought the liner was meant to overlap the water all the way around being secured with rocks/gravel or soil or the concrete collar?

 

Stop criticizing

Good luck with it Luci you have it mastered its your pond to do to it as you like, you make it as you wont it, not us .