What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

For most of the last few days it has been leaf clearing (what was the empty compost heap is now 5ft high ), cut a couple of lawns, emptied 8 x 18" pots of cosmos (still more to go) and Mrs Shiney potted on the babies that had already started sprouting in the pots. Cut back three large Aruncus sylvestris, 2 large Veronicastrums, a 6ft diameter patch of Solomon's Seal (was a good year this year and no bugs ) and started on cutting back some of the Zebra grasses.

I also picked up about 100lb of windfalls (nearly all gone now) and cooked down some of them, gave 40lb to a charity, left three buckets full for cooking and for giving to friends and put 20 of the worst ones back on the ground for the birds and rabbits.

 

Where does one pick up IBC tanks? Was thinking of getting some myself

 

My day off, so I put a warm Fleece on and started dividing the 3 pots of Primroses that I bought in at a "end of season" sale at the local Plant Nursery.
The winds were coming from the SouthEast so I was mostly protected by being in the side passage of the House so I mixed another 30 litre bucket of compost, sand, potting grit and Blood, Fish and Bonemeal and manage to divide the three pots of plants into 11 new Primrose plants and potted them up ready for Spring. I've also bought 5 Strawberry plants so I potted them up, and labelled them, in the hope for picking some Strawberries while on an amble through the garden next year Then I had another amble around the garden to check on the borders and everything looked fine so I headed for the House and a Mug of Tea.

 

Almost nothing at all but did buy some dogwoods for a bit of winter colour against the front wall.

Any recommendations for modest sized evergreen shrubs?

 

Osmanthus (evergreen with thousands of tiny, powerfully Sweet scented flowers


Garrya James Roof with beautiful tassels