Creating a new front flower bed for fragrance: roses, Daphne, and gardenias. After watching the Gardener’s World episode aired on Friday 8th October about trees planted a Sorbus splendens after removing a clump of Hellebore dividing it and replanting it. Weeding and tidying a rockery
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Some challenging fencing
Almost 2 hours clearing brambles just to be able to get to the fence! Then having to align it with the existing fence which had not been placed according to the boundary lines.
Clearance
Monday morning bed clearance
This week
Weeding and planting hardy Gerberas. Lavender trimming, lawn mowing and autumn lawn treatment, dead heading roses, more weeding. Hedges.. Reducing width.
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!
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
Getting nature to help!
Well here in the South East of England, we were having a hot spell..(25 to 31 degrees C). Having lived in Málaga, and various other hot countries, this for me is “lovely” weather! Dry and sunny also means I can use those conditions to try and eliminate unwanted plants, whether they are weeds or justContinue reading “Getting nature to help!”
Enjoyable
I’ve always liked clearing overgrown neglected gardens (not through the owner’s fault.. Many times it’s a result of time and manageability) and attempting to restore them to hire they would have looked. Generally I try not to use chemical weedkillers.. Just because you still have to clear the dead weeds once the chemicals have worked,Continue reading “Enjoyable”
