It'll be a familiar tale. A part of the garden that has passed its sell by date, not a lot happening, not visited much and then only to get somewhere else. Chances are it's dominated by evergreen shrubs that have been getting steadily bigger, casting too much shade, squeezing out the smaller plants. Tackling it…
Tag: camellias
Six on Saturday – 29/8/2020
Almost the end of August, the year seems to have slipped through my fingers. I finally got around to dragging the roll of polythene out of the attic and measuring it; nowhere near big enough to re-sheet my tunnel. Yesterday I ordered a new sheet, and hot spot tape. I may have passed the point…
Six on Saturday – 9/5/2020
It started with the Thursday night clap. Most of our neighbours were in on that from about week two. Then one of my sisters set up a get together on Facebook messenger and that has become a Friday morning ritual. Then one of our neighbours suggested we have a bit of a socially distanced street…
Six on Saturday – 11/4/2020
And so it goes on. Applause broke out at 8pm on Thursday so I opened the window and joined it, then someone went for a bottle of wine and before long there were all our neighbours out with chairs and bottles, all keeping a sensible distance from each other but socialising in a totally unprecedented…
Six on Saturday – 21/3/2020
I am just so thankful that I have a decent sized garden to keep me occupied, distracted, isolated and sane. It's all been said, I'll move on. If there's one thing in the garden that will lift your spirits it's flowers and by good fortune the weather has taken a turn for the better this…
Six on Saturday – 14/3/2020
There's definitely a sense that things are starting to green up in the garden, though only just managing to outpace the slugs. I went out with a torch one evening in the week, it's a bit dispiriting to see so many. Chionodoxa have lost almost every bud before they opened and Polygonatum were getting mauled.…
Six on Saturday -7/3/2020
It's not for improving, this weather. Looks like the week after next might be better. I'm clutching at straws. One. Right, let's get this one of my chest. On Monday I went to my local garden club and someone had brought along Daffodil 'Rapture' for the flower competition we have. Last year I planted five…
Six on Saturday – 29/2/2020
Six things happening in the garden eh, how about rain, rain, rain, rain, rain and more rain. I'm grateful I still have a garden, not a river or lake. Actually it's bright sunshine just now, but ten minutes ago it was sleeting. The garden is wet and windswept but by degrees it's waking up from…
Six on Saturday – 22/2/2020
Too many twos in the date if you ask me. Actually managed to get a bit of gardening done yesterday, mainly chopping down grasses and Epimediums before the new growth gets any higher and makes it impossible. It looks barer, I'm not sure it looks better. A few more weeks will change that though, there…
Six on Saturday – 15/2/2020
I didn't wait for Saturday to get out for some pictures this week, they were all taken yesterday. I just went out there, it was a good call. Not nice. On Monday I'm going on a workshop being run by Plant Heritage about how to use their database system. It's currently meaning I'm getting my…
