WHAT JOBS ARE WE DOING IN THE GARDEN TODAY 2018

I removed the wires I'd been using to pull this big rhodo to the left as it was previously crowding the one to the right of it. Six months has encouraged it to assume this shape.



Same with this one in front of the camelia, which was leaning too far over the lawn.



I also removed the plastic clothes line with which I tied this sorbus to a concrete fence post. It's corrected its lean to the left and forwards, so as good as I can expect.

 

Worked out well DHR

Just checked an area of the front lawn that was re seeded a few days before the Beast from the East.......seed has germinated.

 

Just a note from my personal experience of this plant: When I knew I was moving here, @merleworld sent me some self-seeded pieces of Lysimachia to grow on in my new garden. They were good plants too! Nonetheless, they didn't survive; despite my best of care. I'll be interested to read about your success rate and then compare how you kept yours to how I lost mine

He has the spirit of Echo in his bones

 

Set up my wildlife camera to capture a picture of the beast that swoops down early a.m. trying to spear me fishes. Bad Birdie!

Got stuck into a pile of sodden abandoned sawn logs and reduced them to a small pile of kindling for next winter. Set a few mole traps. Then ran indoors, its freezing

 

Lady Gardening We are off for holidays next week and I'm not quite ready to flaunt my bikini body yet so severe mowing, pruning and general spring tidying was required. OK, I don't exactly flaunt. And the body in question is more like a DadBod. And the bikini is actually M&S Secret Support range onepiece which pushes bits towards desired directions, allegedly.

But hey ho, Hols are around the corner and hopefully the weather here is slightly more merciful when we get back and start the Grand New Border.

Spring!!! (please...?)

 

It been a reasonably nice day today, wet start to the day with rain over night but its been sunny and a bit cloudy most of the day, started raining this evening.

Potted on some seedling this evening - petunia - bacopa - begonia - antirrhinum, many more to do but I'll give them a bit more time before potting on.

@shiney Is it lysimchia firecracker your on about what has a tendency to spread ? or another variety .

 

No jobs today as it's down again

 

Busy morning potting up loads of mail order plug plants and potting on a few tomato seedlings into bigger pots

 

Glod knows what I planted in this pot

 

I had Firecracker for a season but it was very invasive. Lovely foliage colour but it had to go.
I gave it to a local hospice ....explaining its tendencies of course....and it now looks wonderful. It has spread......it was divided and planted spaced well apart......but right plant right situation