Yesterday I bought three agapanthus in full flower. They look great amongst all my trees on the gravel. ?
I grow trees in pots - oak, chestnut, ash, beech, sycamore and Rowan. The two Rowan trees came from our last house and are now about 4 ft tall. Not bonsai, just trees in pots. They're doing really well but, of course, they need quite a bit of watering at the moment.
I have a Grand Plan for my garden too - it changes every couple of days .
We also have a large area of decking in one corner of the back garden which we haven't really utilised this year. We are not great ones for sitting in the sun so we need to give some thought to shaded seating going forward. I also want to get some lighting into the back garden as it's lovely out there in the cool of the evening.
A couple of hours of gardening this morning before the sun came out - it was overcast and relatively cool first thing here - trimming back and pruning. There are four big bags of garden waste for the tip tomorrow; our compost bin is full and our green waste bin hasn't arrived yet.
I've managed to pull up a small bush that I'm going to replace with a rosemary that I brought from our previous garden. The earth stands hard as iron so I need to put in a couple of days' watering there, and in the place I want to plant three Dianthus Pink Kisses (purchased earlier this week) before I can attempt to dig holes for planting.
A guy on our allotment keeps insisting that we can use a hose, if it's for food crops. I think technically this is correct, but he's been watering his patch of grass. I think a barrack room lawyer. Our plot now looks frazzled and brown, so probably its a moot point, although our tomatoes are doing well.
The clash over the hose pipe ban is achieving Clochemerle type proportions. Following objections that veg and fruit crops can be watered a la hose, the powers that be have asserted that able-bodied persons must use receptacles to carry water. I'm waiting for the next objection, and I saw one potential litigant furiously rolling up various hoses. More!
Got up early this morning to garden before the heat of the day. I was weeding in one of the raised beds left by the previous owner and a random potato plant yielded a crop of four potatoes which we shall enjoy with our lunch! I'm also going to try cooking some of the apple windfalls. The fruit is coming off the tree before it's properly ripe.
I've managed, after some effort, to get the rosemary I brought from our previous garden out of its pot and into the ground. It had got very potbound (at one point I thought I was going to have to break the pot) so I hope it will be happy in its new sunny spot by the front door.
Last weekend we were busy in the garden. I have been wanting to reclaim some pots which have been filled with naked ladies. A wonderful gift from a friend clearing her garden in order to replant with Australian natives.
So all the naked ladies have been transplanted in one of the beds in the front garden, making at least some competition for the weeds. I think it's not really the ideal time of year to be doing transplanting, but we've had so little cold weather that I thought we could risk it. Hopefully they will survive ok.
I now have about 4 medium sized terracotta pots which are empty and at the weekend I'll need to get some more potting mix to fill those and get them planted up with seedlings. I've already moved some pinks from smaller pots into larger ones and used up all the potting mix I had as well as a tray of castings from the worm farm.
I now have sore wrists and shoulders, so will give myself a day off tomorrow.
Got up early this morning to garden before the heat of the day. I was weeding in one of the raised beds left by the previous owner and a random potato plant yielded a crop of four potatoes which we shall enjoy with our lunch! I'm also going to try cooking some of the apple windfalls. The fruit is coming off the tree before it's properly ripe.
My grandmother would make some wonderful applesauce on the sour side, by picking some of her apples while still green. I remember as a child loving it. As you can not buy green apples in the store, and I do not have a tree I have not had it in years. I also have no idea of her recipe. I just remeber it was so good.
AI gave me this. To make a tart and sour green apple sauce, use Granny Smith apples, fresh lemon juice, and minimal sugar.Ingredients3 pounds Granny Smith apples (peeled, cored, and chopped)1/2 cup water or apple cider2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (add more for extra sourness)2 to 3 tablespoons sugar or honey (optional, to taste)1/4 teaspoon salt1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon (optional)
Two of the aforementioned potatoes were brown inside and unusable but the other two were tasty. The apples didn't cook down particularly well - bramleys usually go to mush almost straight away but these weren't properly ripe - and they were pretty sharp-tasting (I did add sugar) but there was a certain satisfaction in consuming some home-grown produce!
We paid a visit to our local (very good) plant nursery this afternoon and picked up some compost, bark mulch and some sun-loving plants (echinacea and sedum) to plant outside our front window. We like to sit there and gaze upon the border there, which was very pretty in the spring but lacking in late summer colour now. I'll need to water that border late this evening to soften it as the ground is still very hard for attempting to dig holes in.
I have also emptied a large pot and plan to plant mint in it - there was a small plant up for sale a few weeks back at the allotment next to our house, and it's in a small pot but clearly struggling now.
This is all work planned for tomorrow - I usually wake early and will be getting out there as soon as I wake to get it done in the relative coolness.
My runner beans are doing well and I now have quite a few prepped and in the freezer. Our self-seeded tomatoes in various bits of the garden are doing much better than the tended ones in the greenhouse, I think the weather has just been too hot for them.
I'm trying to keep the back border going, but I think I might have to give up on that and hope we really get the promised rain next week.
We chatted to our landscape gardener, who is conveniently our next door neighbour, last week and when he's back from holiday he's coming round to discuss what we can do about the dodgy decking outside the back door, the even dodgier decking under the pergola and how to remodel the front garden. That garden is bigger than the garden we had in London, and has gravel parking and a small lawn with a box hedge. The hedge has succumbed to box hedge moth and the lawn is mainly weeds. We're thinking a border similar to the one he has in his front garden and maybe space for another car. We don't often need the space but it could be a useful selling point later down the line.
Just staggered in from tying up the zillion tomatoes on my front driveway--they sit in buckets (cheaper than pots) and are about to achieve world domination. I suspect a couple of dogs have already vanished into the greenery.
@Lamb Chopped Some years ago my in-laws moved in to a new build in deepest Lincolnshire. Everything burgeoned forth in a sizeable patch to the front of the house, such that we think a dead horse was dumped there by the builders, instead of being fed to the locals hunt’s hounds.
As a parallel to the “Talking to machines” thread, my dad used this method on an apple tree from which no fruit issued. The year my parents moved in there was no fruit, but my dad played the long game in the garden, so he didn’t expect much and he didn’t get fruit in the second year, despite his care, he wasn’t worried: after all, it looked okay. After year three he had had enough, so in spring he gave notice “give fruit or I shall get a Magnolia”.
Would you believe it! We got a bumper crop! Lots of tasty Ellison’s Orange.
No proper gardening the last couple of weeks, but watering to help the newly moved naked ladies to settle in. Trying to keep on top of watering the pots as well. Our winter is still officially on, but spring is drawing near and some spring bulbs are already flowering. My spring star flowers are out and noticed jonquils at another house on our street yesterday.
I am hoping to get a trough planter at the weekend, as I have a voucher to spend and I've realised the pots I put my sweet peas into are not going to be deep enough once we get into spring/summer proper. I hope I can transplant them without wrecking them completely.
As a parallel to the “Talking to machines” thread, my dad used this method on an apple tree from which no fruit issued. The year my parents moved in there was no fruit, but my dad played the long game in the garden, so he didn’t expect much and he didn’t get fruit in the second year, despite his care, he wasn’t worried: after all, it looked okay. After year three he had had enough, so in spring he gave notice “give fruit or I shall get a Magnolia”.
Would you believe it! We got a bumper crop! Lots of tasty Ellison’s Orange.
Similarly, I brought here a Peruvian Lily (Alstroemeria) from our previous garden, in a tub where it had flourished for years. For a long time it sat there with a few wilted-looking leaves. I fed it and watered it for many weeks and finally told it that "I'm doing my best. You buck your ideas up or it's the compost heap for you."
Well, that's it for the allotment. The tomatoes have been brilliant, er, and the vine. Most other things frazzled. So far, nothing actually dead, and rain is here.
I did the same for our very old flowering cherry tree. It was struggling with very few leaves. Not really looking anything like a tree apart from the blossom, which only lasted a week. I put it on death row this time last year.
I had a thornless Key lime tree that only produced two or three fruits a year. Then, we had hurricane Charley. The tree was blown half out of the ground so I put it back upright, tamped the dirt very tightly and staked it. After that, it would produce hundreds of very large limes every year until two very large oak trees finally overshadowed it.
I put in a flowering cherry in July, a birthday present. I proceeded to overwater it as the ground was so dry. I thought it needed more water than it did.
Now the downpours we're having are making me worry it won't survive. I'll be anxiously watching it until spring leaves come on.
I hope your cherry is doing OK @Boogie. We have a weeping cherry in our front garden and I love it. It does need some attention as it's going a bit wild, so maybe at the weekend.
Lovely flowering pears are just getting to bud burst stage on the street around the corner from me. I love driving home from the shops and seeing them, I suspect that by next week they will be fully in flower. I noticed more daffodils in flower as I walked around the neighbourhood at the weekend, and now my grape hyacinths have begun to pop out, just lovely.
I suspect my lily of the valley will begin to come back pretty soon, so I want to get them out of a pot and into the ground before they take off, hopefully in a day or so once the currrent rain has passed.
We had some friends over yesterday from the town where we used to live. The husband is a very keen gardener and always has a lovely show of flowers in pots and tubs, plus an allotment. The allotments there are the other side of town from where they live and, unlike the allotments here that we overlook, there's no water on site. He was saying they are going to give up their allotment as it is far too much hard work and everything has fried in the hot summer. (I did try to persuade them to move here as there is one house on the estate still vacant, but they seemed unconvinced.)
I've had several conversations with gardening friends and acquaintances about garden plans for next year. I had been thinking of pretty summer bedding but I'm now informing myself about drought-tolerant plants and picturing lavender, sedums, alliums and olive trees.
I can't imagine an allotment with no water. After our hols, we are looking at how many dead plants we have, mainly things in pots. However, the kale is very good, plus tomatoes, and strangely, potatoes. There will be a ton of dead stuff to collect, fortunately, there is a lorry pick-up in October.
It's surprising how many plants are drought tolerant I guess depending on where you live. Our previous house had camellias that had intermittent watering, including during dry times and they seemed to get along with a fair amount of neglect. I probably wouldn't try growing them if I lived somewhere that was 40 degrees plus all summer long though.
I decided to prioritise the garden this morning and got the lily of the valley into the ground, and then used the now empty pot for transplanting a lavender that had outgrown it's original pot.
I pulled a few weeds quickly as the green bin is emptied tomorrow, so quite pleased with my effort of half an hour.
We are in the middle of our regular ‘plums for all’ fortnight. I have made 12 pounds of jam, have given away about 10 kilos of fruit, and have a basin of free plums by the door. All from one tree - a Victoria. I expect more jam will be made next week (Mr Cats can eat a jar a week!), and I will be offloading some at work and at choir this week. I love a good plum, but this tree’s capacity for fruiting is ridiculous!
We had a Victoria plum tree in the garden of the house where I grew up. I don't remember jam being made but I do remember eating the plums, they were delicious. Plum jam's my favourite but Mr Nen doesn't share my feelings and as he's the jam eater in the house we don't ever have it.
This afternoon I did some proper gardening for the first time in weeks. We had rain in the night (not nearly enough) and it was muggy and hot in the sun but comfortable in the shade. I top-dressed some of the pots with fresh compost, weeded a couple of areas (funny how the grass is still dried to a crisp but the weeds are starting to thrive), did some trimming and cutting back and deadheading and generally enjoyed myself for the best part of four hours. A pink echinacea I planted in the south facing front garden for late summer colour is looking spectacular (the white one not so much) so I must get more of those.
The ground is still really hard. It's a thin layer of clay on top of builders' rubble. How the previous owner got the trees and shrubs into it is a mystery to me. He must have used a mattock. Or a pneumatic drill.
It's one of the eternal frustrations of gardening that the weeds seem to survive no matter what! Planting weeds rather than flowers is a tempting thought.
A lovely time spent in the garden this morning. I emptied one layer of my worm farm onto the front garden and got that spread and the mulch put back on top. Whilst there I also pulled the odd weed and tore out some dead lavender plants. I'm trying to persuade Cheery husband not to replace them as they just don't thrive in that spot. I wonder if we might do better with daisies.
After enjoying a cuppa Cheery husband and I went down to the garden centre and got a lovely new garden trough planter, some seedlings and mats for my worm farm. I needed one for immediate use and thought having a spare would be a good idea. They seem to break down a lot more quickly than the original mat that came with my farm.
Tomorrow's job will be to plant the seedlings out and if possible to transfer my sweet peas into the deeper trough just purchased. I think that's going to be a 2 person job, so I'll have to recruit Mr Cheery to help me.
I plant phacelia in every 'waiting' bed. It grows very quickly, keeps the weeds away, covers the ground and then can be dug in for green manure. The bees love it.
That sounds like an ideal plant @Boogie. I love that when the groundcover/weed suppression job is done, it goes on to have another life improving the soil.
I've been outside for the last couple of hours. Operation repotting the sweet peas has gone very well. No breakages of plants and minimal mess as we decided to put a tarp down on the concrete before starting. I've also potted up a mega punnet of johnny jump ups and now have those pots watered and resting in the shade. I've also been around and watered all the other pots in the back garden.
I'll have a little rest for a bit and after lunch, if I can get motivated, I'll water the pots in the front garden. However, if I don't get there, I think they will last ok until tomorrow.
Finally we seem to have perfect plant growing weather, pleasantly warm sunshine interspersed with showers, some of which have been rather heavy. Our lawn is now a very nice green colour again. It never went totally brown as the the water table is so high here, but it is now much more evenly green.
I have a freezer full of runner beans and more to come and quite a few tomatoes from the self-seeded plants around and about. The herbs have been great too. Our butternut squash plants were more plant and less squashes so we're going to dig those up in the next week or so and do a late sowing of spinach.
That is far more organised than I am @boogie, things just evolve in our garden. Having said that our landscape gardener neighbour is coming round on Friday to talk about re-modelling the front garden, replacing the rotten decking under the pergola and remodelling the decking, which is also rotten outside the back door. It'll be interesting to see what he suggests. His patio area with a greenhouse and a border around it that he did a couple of years ago has been a great success.
@Sarasa I make no apologies for repeating that we replaced the decking and the (supposed) lawn with paving and pots and planters for any living thing in the garden. Low maintenance, much enjoyment.
Beyond the hedge is our wildflower garden, which is entirely random. ??
We go away tomorrow. The housesitter will look after the garden, but I can't expect him to look after the seedlings in the greenhouse. They are violas. A bit young but I've planted them in their pots with fingers crossed.
I managed to get my violas planted a week or so ago and a couple of days later we got a really nice drop of rain. I watered them a couple of days ago and hey seem to be settling in well. The last time I went to the garden centre, I noticed they were beginning to get petunias into stock. Next week after payday I'll go and get some and plant up my pots in anticipation of the December festive season. I will have to gently work around my bulbs that are currently in flower, but I think that will be OK.
I love the look of your garden plan @Boogie, I hope it all works out well. Planting roses sounds good, they are so hardy and bring such joy with their blooms and fragrance.
Landscape gardener came round. His ideas sound really good, so I'm looking forward to seeing what the plans are like. Tomorrow I hope the plant stall is on the market as I fancy buying some bulbs for various borders.
I've just been given some hollyhock seeds - now to find a bit of the garden where they won't be swamped out by evening primrose!
Honestly, I may have to do something drastic to the evening primrose to give the other plants a chance!
I love the look of your garden plan @Boogie, I hope it all works out well. Planting roses sounds good, they are so hardy and bring such joy with their blooms and fragrance.
I love that you have a special place for sweet peas, my favourites! Is the barrel a feature only, or will it be for water storage?
I spent about an hour and a half in the garden this morning. The job was to plant out about 20 petunia seedlings and I ended up getting them all into various pots. One in the front garden which also has lily of valley on one side, so I thought a mix of flowers would be nice.
White petunias around the pot with lorapetalum and red petunias planted around my silver bush with white flowers. I hastily pulled out some hot pink snapdragons, so raced around and found another couple of pots in which to replant those. I had thought they were dead because they'd gotten a bit burnt by the frost, hopefully I have saved them.
Filled another couple of pots with new potting mix and worm castings and then planted the remainder of the petunias, I had to pick through the worm castings for the worms and replaced most of them into the worm farm. Now I have a lovely empty tray in the farm, which I have already begun to fill and all the petunias are planted.
I do have to say my fingers are a bit sore after all that gardening and I have asked Mr Cheery not to buy such a large bag of potting mix next time. It is so heavy that I can't lift it to pour into the pots and now that half the bag is gone, it's killing my back bending into the bag to get at the mix. I think it was a really good price, but urk the practicality of using it has been a pain.
Actually got into the garden this morning. I've been putting it off because weather not that enticing - but principally because, after an entire Spring and Summer of neglect, it all felt Too Much.
However, I mowed the lawn - three hopperfuls of clippings - and tackled the rosebay willowherb (taller than me) and the rampaging mint.
For dinner I ate green beans, tomatoes, and onions all from my patio pot garden. I think I am near the end of produce, but such a feeling of satisfaction to eat what you have grown in a small space.
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I grow trees in pots - oak, chestnut, ash, beech, sycamore and Rowan. The two Rowan trees came from our last house and are now about 4 ft tall. Not bonsai, just trees in pots. They're doing really well but, of course, they need quite a bit of watering at the moment.
I have a Grand Plan for my garden too - it changes every couple of days
We also have a large area of decking in one corner of the back garden which we haven't really utilised this year. We are not great ones for sitting in the sun so we need to give some thought to shaded seating going forward. I also want to get some lighting into the back garden as it's lovely out there in the cool of the evening.
A couple of hours of gardening this morning before the sun came out - it was overcast and relatively cool first thing here - trimming back and pruning. There are four big bags of garden waste for the tip tomorrow; our compost bin is full and our green waste bin hasn't arrived yet.
I've managed to pull up a small bush that I'm going to replace with a rosemary that I brought from our previous garden. The earth stands hard as iron so I need to put in a couple of days' watering there, and in the place I want to plant three Dianthus Pink Kisses (purchased earlier this week) before I can attempt to dig holes for planting.
I've managed, after some effort, to get the rosemary I brought from our previous garden out of its pot and into the ground. It had got very potbound (at one point I thought I was going to have to break the pot) so I hope it will be happy in its new sunny spot by the front door.
So all the naked ladies have been transplanted in one of the beds in the front garden, making at least some competition for the weeds. I think it's not really the ideal time of year to be doing transplanting, but we've had so little cold weather that I thought we could risk it. Hopefully they will survive ok.
I now have about 4 medium sized terracotta pots which are empty and at the weekend I'll need to get some more potting mix to fill those and get them planted up with seedlings. I've already moved some pinks from smaller pots into larger ones and used up all the potting mix I had as well as a tray of castings from the worm farm.
I now have sore wrists and shoulders, so will give myself a day off tomorrow.
My grandmother would make some wonderful applesauce on the sour side, by picking some of her apples while still green. I remember as a child loving it. As you can not buy green apples in the store, and I do not have a tree I have not had it in years. I also have no idea of her recipe. I just remeber it was so good.
We paid a visit to our local (very good) plant nursery this afternoon and picked up some compost, bark mulch and some sun-loving plants (echinacea and sedum) to plant outside our front window. We like to sit there and gaze upon the border there, which was very pretty in the spring but lacking in late summer colour now. I'll need to water that border late this evening to soften it as the ground is still very hard for attempting to dig holes in.
I have also emptied a large pot and plan to plant mint in it - there was a small plant up for sale a few weeks back at the allotment next to our house, and it's in a small pot but clearly struggling now.
This is all work planned for tomorrow - I usually wake early and will be getting out there as soon as I wake to get it done in the relative coolness.
I'm trying to keep the back border going, but I think I might have to give up on that and hope we really get the promised rain next week.
We chatted to our landscape gardener, who is conveniently our next door neighbour, last week and when he's back from holiday he's coming round to discuss what we can do about the dodgy decking outside the back door, the even dodgier decking under the pergola and how to remodel the front garden. That garden is bigger than the garden we had in London, and has gravel parking and a small lawn with a box hedge. The hedge has succumbed to box hedge moth and the lawn is mainly weeds. We're thinking a border similar to the one he has in his front garden and maybe space for another car. We don't often need the space but it could be a useful selling point later down the line.
Would you believe it! We got a bumper crop! Lots of tasty Ellison’s Orange.
I am hoping to get a trough planter at the weekend, as I have a voucher to spend and I've realised the pots I put my sweet peas into are not going to be deep enough once we get into spring/summer proper. I hope I can transplant them without wrecking them completely.
Oh, and more leaf sweeping up! It never ends ....
Similarly, I brought here a Peruvian Lily (Alstroemeria) from our previous garden, in a tub where it had flourished for years. For a long time it sat there with a few wilted-looking leaves. I fed it and watered it for many weeks and finally told it that "I'm doing my best. You buck your ideas up or it's the compost heap for you."
It's looking gorgeous now.
It's being glorious ever since!
Very biblical of you!
Now the downpours we're having are making me worry it won't survive. I'll be anxiously watching it until spring leaves come on.
Lovely flowering pears are just getting to bud burst stage on the street around the corner from me. I love driving home from the shops and seeing them, I suspect that by next week they will be fully in flower. I noticed more daffodils in flower as I walked around the neighbourhood at the weekend, and now my grape hyacinths have begun to pop out, just lovely.
I suspect my lily of the valley will begin to come back pretty soon, so I want to get them out of a pot and into the ground before they take off, hopefully in a day or so once the currrent rain has passed.
I've had several conversations with gardening friends and acquaintances about garden plans for next year. I had been thinking of pretty summer bedding but I'm now informing myself about drought-tolerant plants and picturing lavender, sedums, alliums and olive trees.
I decided to prioritise the garden this morning and got the lily of the valley into the ground, and then used the now empty pot for transplanting a lavender that had outgrown it's original pot.
I pulled a few weeds quickly as the green bin is emptied tomorrow, so quite pleased with my effort of half an hour.
This afternoon I did some proper gardening for the first time in weeks. We had rain in the night (not nearly enough) and it was muggy and hot in the sun but comfortable in the shade. I top-dressed some of the pots with fresh compost, weeded a couple of areas (funny how the grass is still dried to a crisp but the weeds are starting to thrive), did some trimming and cutting back and deadheading and generally enjoyed myself for the best part of four hours. A pink echinacea I planted in the south facing front garden for late summer colour is looking spectacular (the white one not so much) so I must get more of those.
The ground is still really hard. It's a thin layer of clay on top of builders' rubble. How the previous owner got the trees and shrubs into it is a mystery to me. He must have used a mattock. Or a pneumatic drill.
A lovely time spent in the garden this morning. I emptied one layer of my worm farm onto the front garden and got that spread and the mulch put back on top. Whilst there I also pulled the odd weed and tore out some dead lavender plants. I'm trying to persuade Cheery husband not to replace them as they just don't thrive in that spot. I wonder if we might do better with daisies.
After enjoying a cuppa Cheery husband and I went down to the garden centre and got a lovely new garden trough planter, some seedlings and mats for my worm farm. I needed one for immediate use and thought having a spare would be a good idea. They seem to break down a lot more quickly than the original mat that came with my farm.
Tomorrow's job will be to plant the seedlings out and if possible to transfer my sweet peas into the deeper trough just purchased. I think that's going to be a 2 person job, so I'll have to recruit Mr Cheery to help me.
I've been outside for the last couple of hours. Operation repotting the sweet peas has gone very well. No breakages of plants and minimal mess as we decided to put a tarp down on the concrete before starting. I've also potted up a mega punnet of johnny jump ups and now have those pots watered and resting in the shade. I've also been around and watered all the other pots in the back garden.
I'll have a little rest for a bit and after lunch, if I can get motivated, I'll water the pots in the front garden. However, if I don't get there, I think they will last ok until tomorrow.
We've had some very welcome rain and the garden is grateful. It will be good when the grass starts greening up again.
I have a freezer full of runner beans and more to come and quite a few tomatoes from the self-seeded plants around and about. The herbs have been great too. Our butternut squash plants were more plant and less squashes so we're going to dig those up in the next week or so and do a late sowing of spinach.
The plum tree is a promise from a friend. The elder will be in a large pot as they can outcompete other trees for water, nutrients, and light.
First job - get the roses in when we get home from Germany.
Here is the plan -
https://photos.app.goo.gl/KxpruSmzTed9mpcU9
We go away tomorrow. The housesitter will look after the garden, but I can't expect him to look after the seedlings in the greenhouse. They are violas. A bit young but I've planted them in their pots with fingers crossed.
I love the look of your garden plan @Boogie, I hope it all works out well. Planting roses sounds good, they are so hardy and bring such joy with their blooms and fragrance.
Honestly, I may have to do something drastic to the evening primrose to give the other plants a chance!
Thank you.
The plan is evolving as I research more.
Here is the latest ?
https://photos.app.goo.gl/YmN4RUTEhGMHrU7i6
I spent about an hour and a half in the garden this morning. The job was to plant out about 20 petunia seedlings and I ended up getting them all into various pots. One in the front garden which also has lily of valley on one side, so I thought a mix of flowers would be nice.
White petunias around the pot with lorapetalum and red petunias planted around my silver bush with white flowers. I hastily pulled out some hot pink snapdragons, so raced around and found another couple of pots in which to replant those. I had thought they were dead because they'd gotten a bit burnt by the frost, hopefully I have saved them.
Filled another couple of pots with new potting mix and worm castings and then planted the remainder of the petunias, I had to pick through the worm castings for the worms and replaced most of them into the worm farm. Now I have a lovely empty tray in the farm, which I have already begun to fill and all the petunias are planted.
I do have to say my fingers are a bit sore after all that gardening and I have asked Mr Cheery not to buy such a large bag of potting mix next time. It is so heavy that I can't lift it to pour into the pots and now that half the bag is gone, it's killing my back bending into the bag to get at the mix. I think it was a really good price, but urk the practicality of using it has been a pain.
It's a large half whisky barrel. Currently full of zinnias. When Mr. Boogs drilled the holes for drainage, the smell of whisky was really strong! ?
However, I mowed the lawn - three hopperfuls of clippings - and tackled the rosebay willowherb (taller than me) and the rampaging mint.