What Jobs Are We Doing In The Garden Today 2020

That's a nice Rose, Mike, and a good idea to renew it to keep the connection with your Partner
I have four things in the Garden to keep the connection and memories of my late Wife.......

Rose "Masquerade"


Rose "Trumpeter"


a real memory special Rose "Crazy for You"


and the Shrub Garrya "James Roof"


So gardens and plants are great to keep memories of the people we love.

 

We actually bought ours, Mike, in the 80's as a bare root twig wrapped up in a cellophane packet from a now defunct Supermarket called "FineFare" for 10 shillings


or, for the uninitiated, 50p. Best value Rose ever as it has flowered every year since then and still makes me smile.

 

I'm afraid so, Mike. But at least we have the plants and memories

 

Sadly, no sign of the flowers yet but they always herald Spring. There's a hint of colour coming from some of the cowslips. primroses and polyanthus and that's why I have just done my final mowing, on a high setting, in the wild area. No more mowing until the orchids finish.

 

Quite a busy day today - emptied out the remaining pots from the greenhouse to get it ready to store all the pots and planters over the winter and to get the brugmansias in before we get any frost (came very close the other night, so not going to risk leaving them out now) - all plant material went into our composters, and the spent compost out of the pots went toward filing up the new raised bed at the back of the garden. It will need digging over again in the spring, but we did have some 'help' to get us started today....



I suppose mucky paws are happy paws...

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Then we cut the grass - - yes, I know it is nearly the end of November and folks are putting up Christmas trees, but it needed cutting; besides, it was 11 degrees here today, so if that is too cold to cut grass then lawnmower sales in Scotland are going to dry up

Next up was to make a start on putting some more slate chippings into the 'step' area that leads onto the lawn; we added about two and a half bags, which is a start, but I reckon another half-dozen or so bags are needed for it to be right.

Then, everything was swept and then I gave the patio a quick going over with the pressure washer.

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Please forgive this being taken from the bathroom window - we had little choice but to head straight up there and get a certain little furry man in the bath, closely followed by showers for ourselves.

As usual, I have pushed it way too far and am now in so much pain that pain killers are not really touching it. Hey ho, I'll recover..... I am not the only one snuggled up on the sofa either..

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It's looking good and good to see Fletch is getting out into the garden.

Take it easy

 

After overdoing things yesterday I needed some attention. Mrs Shiney started off by massaging my thumb and wrist otherwise I wouldn't have been able to prep the food for dinner . Then a neck and shoulder massage was required and by this morning I was semi-human again.

I did a number of odd jobs around the garden this morning and after a lunchtime massage I dug and weeded an 5' x 4' area of brambles nasty weeds whilst being careful not to disturb the garlic that has 3" shoots already.

 

Don't your collections go on all year?