What Jobs Are We Doing in the Garden Today... MK3.. 2013

After a very frosty start to the day it became more like an early summer's day.

I started on shaping some of the conifers and am now shattered! They're really a bit too tall for me to get to them comfortably. I use an extendable hedgecutter and stand on some steps but can't really reach the top properly. Holding the cutter at arms length is very tiring!

I did these two - the privet hedge behind the first is about 6ft high





There's another one to do and that's the most difficult. It's between the other two.

 

Mrs Shiney has been making up pots and hanging baskets

She does all that type of work (I have trouble bending) and she does all the propagation of plants.

These are some of the pots etc she worked on today.









She decided that because of the weather other plants may not be ready to look clourful by Open Day so she has stuck to heathers, ivy and pansies and shall be doing more.

 

These are some of the plants she's been working on and is starting to tidy up the winter damaged ones before working on more. She hopes to do at least another 500 before Open Day.

A lot of the plants have been split from our existing ones or have been propagated from them. We shall start off the veg soon and they should be ready for sale in time.












Those day lilies are looking quite healthy and we shall dig up some more and pot them up. Sorry, but we don't remember what varieties they are but they aren't any of the really fancy ones.

 

Hi Joolz, you're a lot higher up than me so I would leave it until the real danger of frost has diminished....maybe end of this month.

I planted all the bulbs I had not been able to plant due to the late Winter we've had. I also planted 4 out of the 8 Clematis I bought, the other 4 still look a little weak so I've left them in the Green House to grow stronger. I also planted a Clematis Armandii under my Acer Brilliantissimum to see if it will clamber up and around the branches. I then repaired an old gate by the house, replaced some trellis on the garden entrance, tied all the established Clematis to both sides of the entrance and swept the paths. While the cats were being fed in the early evening I painted Sadoline onto the step of the Kitchen door to seal it and protect it and then shut the door to make sure no paw marks appeared on the Kitchen floor. It should be dry in the morning and I'll do the same tomorrow night to give it a second coat. It's been a busy day but a really enjoyable one with the Sun shining, the cruel East Wind gone, and being able to actually feel the warmth of the Sun.....the first time this year.

 

By "Bee" do you mean Bu......., Sheal???