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This week
Weeding and planting hardy Gerberas. Lavender trimming, lawn mowing and autumn lawn treatment, dead heading roses, more weeding. Hedges.. Reducing width.
Challenge accepted . And completed..
Some gardens this week..
Hedges and bushes; now that summer is almost over these are starting to require attention.. as well as keeping on top of the dead heading, keep those blooms coming!!
The importance of dead-heading
As the article states, don’t just pull the spent flowers off, use a sharp pair of secateurs and cut the stern back to the next year leaf or not and you will be rewarded with a flush of new flowers.
Recent gardens
Summer is still here.. Just. We’ve had a few very autumnal days.. Chillier in the mornings, and if the sun stays behind the clouds all day, chilliness starting to set in late afternoon. Still lots of colour, Japanese anemones, chrysanthemums, echinacea, rudbeckia, all still flowering strongly and roses of course!
Some amazing colours and forms
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Last week’s gardens
Some of the work done last week.
Early morning planting
6.30 am nice temperature for planting, after yesterday’s overgrown lawn, a nice change to be creative. This lawn had to be strimmed before cutting with a lawnmower, and even that cut will have to be a high one
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