I have finally got my front drive/car park area resurfaced and a flower bed created along the pergola that was built earlier in the year. Today I finished planting it up with roses, clematis, honeysuckle and a few herbaceous plants in between. Hopefully next summer will see it mature a bit and some growth on the various climbers!
Meanwhile daughter was tackling a bit of hedgerow where a lonicera nitida bush had been growing unchecked for a long number of years, it was about 9 or 10 feet high in amongst some rather strangled hawthorns, but it had also grown out into the garden a similar distance and width, so it was a huge, absolutely solid mass of twigs and branches, with massive brambles growing through it. The core of it - most of it - was completely dead with just foliage on the outer surface. It is going to be completely cleared out and cut back to more or less ground level, then the lonicera can regrow in a more controlled manner. As it was being cleared we discovered that the space revealed a surprisingly good view of the garden and the surrounding countryside.
I've been really busy working on clearing a bit of an overgrown area at the back of the garden. When I moved here there was a great big rambling rose living happily atop the shed. I asked an uncle of mine to cut it back one year as but rather than a gentle pruning he cut it to the ground and in it's absence the ivy took over. The area has since become a habitat for all the birbs and I was reluctant to go too hard on it. Had someone come along with a hedge trimmers and he cleared a ton bag of ivy out of the space. The rose has managed to regain some footing up there so my hope is it will beat the ivy regrowth and reclaim it's rightful place as the king of the shed roof. (There's a Buddleja behind that again)
This was the shed in June
and this is the shed after the work was done
I was able to recover about eight feet of space from the undergrowth so I adjusted the border to accommodate it and planted Hydrangea Whitelight at the recess and filled in other spaces with ferns I had divided. I had some Foxglove seeds on order so I threw some down while the ground was cleared and the soil tilled a bit, I'm an apprentice flower grower so I don't know how that will work but I kept some seed over for spring planting too. I also reseeded the area that had been exposed with some grass seed so I'm looking forward to seeing how that space will develop over the next year or so.
Have a few projects to keep me going for the next while anyway, keeping me happy and busy while the weather is good for it.
There’s no problem planting hardy perennials this time of year, with hopefully another month of warmth they’ll get established before winter and will be quicker to take off in the spring. Great time to split them too for free plants!
you might get perennials reduced in garden centres this time of year though. you'd be buying them for the price, not for any expectation of them doing anything this year.
I'd stick in shrubs and bulbs now and wait until spring for the perennials. I did a bed at this time last year and it's flying it now.
Just finished a bedded area. Is it too late to plant up with some perennials and shrubs? I wonder will they not have as much energy to get a good start?
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I've now tried about 12 times to delete this draft. No luck. So, I'll post this comment - maybe I'll be able to delete it later. If not, my apologies
Took me so long to find this forum this morning that it's just not worth the bother. I'll let it lie for a while and hope it improves.
I see a note that "my forums" hasn't transferred properly.
Things should get much better when this is resolved.
Figuring it out myself and I imagine the threads will be quiet fir the next couple of weeks. But I managed to figure out if you tap on your icon to the top right hand corner, a drop down menu appears. Tap on the star and it brings you to the threads you’re following.
Today I sat in my garden and tried to figure out how the new Boards is supposed to work.
Not much success so far. It was hard enough to find the forum.
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Fann Linn wrote: » I've the Golden Wonders planted since the 30 April and now they've produced very large and full stalks and some are now beginning to show some nice pink flowers. There's no evidence of any blight and they look very healthy. Can anyone advise when they can be lifted? Thanks.
New Home wrote: » Hope they don't create a hybrid, you could find your garden filled with Overly-Attached Girlfriends. :pac:
Isambard wrote: » I continued the battle against Bindweed and Sweetheart. (losing obviously)
New Home wrote: » I don't recommend soaking soft fruit, but even a quick rinse with water and bicarb would be a damn sight better than nothing.
SouthWesterly wrote: » It looks at regenerative agriculture. They were discussing the rise in cancers etc to the rise is the use of chemicals in food production. I don't use any herbicides or insecticides in my place.
New Home wrote: » You could also rinse them in water and bicarbonate of soda, but don't let them soak too much.
New Home wrote: » I think I remember reading something about sodium bicarbonate "absorbing/breaking down" the toxins/the components of the pesticides, for lack of a better/more accurate expression. Ah, here, I found one of the articles!
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