What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

Walk round with secateurs, twine and bamboo canes to tie up, deadhead, remove anything that has been battered by the winds, pick up pots. Cut up branch off Sitka spruce that parted company with the tree at some point yesterday.

 

Breezy, dry, sunny intervals max 19°C.

 

Gets a bit disheartening doesn't it @NigelJ , seeing the aftermath toll on our beloved plants and garden.
Our garden looks devastated...most of the Cosmos has had to be removed and most of the Gladioli blooms have had to be cut down in their prime too. Quite a few Zinnias have snapped and my big Begonias in pots are now sadly bloomless!!
When I think back to the trouble I had seed sowing without compost....trying ( and I must say ,very successfully) to germinate them on damp kitchen paper in Ziploc bags!!!......makes me want to . What a year it's been...it can't get any worse I suppose, we're just having to ride the storm ...literally at times!!!

 

@Upsydaisy I know what you mean...I'm currently sat in bed watching gardeners world and I dont want to open the curtains to see the garden damage. I've had to pull a load of cosmos out too. Id also pulled out a load of calendula too as they had got covered in mildew.

 

So have most of mine too @Snorky85 !!

We have lots of clumps of Cupid Darts ( sorry not good with 'proper names') and this year they have hardly bloomed, but remained in bud. They are always good as a backdrop and height provider to our borders and normally bloom for months on end!! So now without our tall Cosmos and Glads...it's a sad sight out there today!!

Thanks for the reminder...I forgot all about GW last night....coffee and catch up is now next on my agenda.
Enjoy your day....and don't open your curtains!!

 

There is a positive side to winds causing havoc. My kitchen looks much better A quick look around this morning promised me some Gladioli as well. It's odd, I never want to cut flowers to bring in for some reason. The rain and winds combined with a passion to dinnerplate Dahlias and tall Gladioli, together with the shortage of bamboo canes drive me to it.

 

Looks lovely @Selleri ...I'm like you and much prefer flowers to remain in their own environment. I feel like I'm killing them when on very rare occasions I've picked some for indoors!!

 

I must be stark raving bonkers - dead heading Marigolds in the pouring rain - still, job done now .

 

Just been over to my parent's house to check on and feed the fish. Like us they too are surrounded by trees and had quite a lot of post storm debris that we had to clear up.

 

Cleared things up after the winds. Watered the containers. Raked the back lawn.

Now, there are just two things I hate more than raking, namely cross country skiing and pickled herring. Raking hits exactly the muscles I do not have, sounds dreadful and brings back childhood traumas.

At school every September we had to work a day for charity, and whilst the popular kids got the exiting jobs such as washing fire engines, us backbenchers spent the day raking a teacher's back lawn. As a perk we usually were given a cheapy ice cream lolly (think of Asda "why pay more" range downgraded) and impressive blisters. In all fairness, the blisters were fun to pop and with careful tending lasted for months. After the Dooms Day exercise it was time to do the autumn raking at Nana's extensive plot, that took several weekends.

But, now that a large bucketful of dead stuff is off my lawn, things do look much better. Tomorrow I will bribe/blackmail/threaten The Teenager to do the front lawns.

 

Plants have been battered around so cleared a few up but most things have a lean on them now , been looking at getting more steel plant supports but it gets expensive when you want 10+ . I moved quite a lot of pots and one of the barrels to help protect them from the wind which have done quite well . I did move one plant into the Greenhouse cause I didn't want the flower spike getting broke , the plant is a Eucomis Pole-evansii which were on Gworld friday been in the GH this afternoon flower spike snapped absolutely livid 3 years I've waited for it to flower.

 

Oh no!! I really couldn't 'like ' your post @Perki , so clicked on 'informative ' instead.
That is such a shame and I'm so sorry for you. What made it snap in the greenhouse?