What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2019

What a lovely surprise!

They’re tricky things to photograph, aren’t they ?!!

 

My prayer from Sunday has been answered. Clear skies at midnight to pouring at 6am and a full to overflowing water butt by 9am, the only problem is it ain't stopping, cloudbursts on and off ever since so no need to water today.

 

A day for planning my proposed dry garden for next year. Ordered Beth Chatto's book so I can do it properly. When I was working I never had enough time to devote to the garden so everything got done in a rush - now I have no excuse to make a hash of things.
I don't like my hamerocallis "Arnold's Promise''' where it is so I've prepared a new home for it to go in the autumn. It was lovely in the spring but now it is ugly and I don't do ugly plants. Everytime I walk past it I give it evils so to save the poor plant from my bad vibes it's going to a less travelled area of the garden.

 

Looking forward to your dry garden Alana. Any ideas for it yet?

A locally well known....and prize winning....walk way garden here is never watered yet is a joy all year round. Plants of every sort seem to thrive from the most tender to the most common.
It seems to me plants often flower better, even longer, if left alone

 

I took the ladder up to the wisteria on the pergola on the back of our house and fought my way through the foliage to prune off lots of unwanted shoots.

For any of those who may be worried that they might cut a wisteria back too much in January and believe this looks very severe.




Don't worry, you'll get this in April with hardly a leaf in sight..




This is what you'll get in July, it's solid, four feet deep and acts as an excellent sun canopy above our French windows.

 

Superb DHR.
Not too far from me...Wisteria Cottage, fittingly.....is a magnificent wisteria that entirely covers a double cottage. A wonderful sight in flower

 

Yesterday deadheaded the roses and marigolds, this morning picked some redcurrants before the very heavy rain this afternoon.

 

That reminds me of my solutions to D.I.Y...……. Big Hammer or Little Hammer

 

@RobB - out of interest I've just clicked on your location 'West Darrzaat' which I've not heard of. Google maps and the internet aren't recognising it either, would it be a fictitious address by any chance?

 

West Dorset as spoken by the locals?

After a very wet spell the weather brightened considerably so I deadheaded dahlias, tithonias and the like. Managed to pick a few runner beans, tomatoes, salad crops. The drying conditions brought out some wonderful scent from phlox David ....I think this must be the best phlox scent but if anyone knows a better one I would like to plant it too .....and from the honeysuckles over the arch.

Tempted by and succumbed to online purchase of a new Hosta and other perennials today....please help me with this addiction! I blame the boredom caused by today’s rain

 

Hi Sheal,
Verdun is right, folks have a dialect here that is difficult to understand unless heard often enough. Thomas Hardy wrote in this dialect and I've heard a couple of old timers in the pub having a conversation, they may as well have been speaking Mandarin. Hardys' books had to be translated into readable English.
Rambled a bit there didn't I.

 

Ha ha RobB.....same here in Cornwall
A neighbour here is real Cornish.....never truly know what he do say!
Everyone is “me ‘ansome” and we do things “dreckly”

 

It's great although living in the east end "we sorta ad owr own waya talkin, no wot I meen arry"
Here is quaint I get 'allowww Raaab, love it

 

Because it’s a little cooler, I thought I’d get on with a cool-weather task.
So I’ve emptied my 3rd and final compost bay, filling 17-18 (I lost count!) 40l compost sacks with compost, and stacking them to the side of the bays. Not really ready to use it yet, but I need to get the bays turning, as the 1st bay is full to overflowing.

Not sure I’ll have the energy to do any more grunt-work today though. Lifting and moving that many full sacks of damp compost is slightly beyond the limit of my back!!

I think I’ve earned some butter on my lunchtime toast!!

 

I've got to figure out how to protect some of my plants at the back/side of imy yard. The arborist called last night to tell me that they are coming today to remove my big old dead tree and there are lots of perennials surrounding it that I hope won't get too badly mangled in the process.

Anyone got any ideas of how to do this - let me take a pic here.... it's hard to see but there are ferns behind the tree that have taken me years to even get them to be 18" tall and I'd be heart broken to start over.