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[groundhog]

It's my birthday next week and I'm having gardener in for a day to sort my patch out.  Since becoming unwell it's looking unloved with many shrubs overgrown and showing signs of disease.  OH knows nothing about gardening and I'm not much better plus I haven't the strength to cut stuff back .  Can empathise with you CLKD - 20 minutes  weeding and sit down for 2 hours xx
So I'm quite looking forward - he said he will write down the names of the shrubs for future reference and give everything a good cut back and mulch.
At my age I have everything I need so for me better than gifts I won't use.

[CLKD]

What a FabULus idea groundhog!  There is so little info on many plant labels these days because they come in from Belgium etc., that I rarely know after a couple of years what I have set as the labels become lost or crack in the sunshine, rendering them useless. 

Photos .?   

[CLKD]

BUMP

[dahliagirl]

There is a purple Hellebore coming out 

[CLKD]

We have a cream one and a deep purple one so far: yellow jasmine, Winter flowering honeysuckles and clematis 'freckles' - for the first time in 15 years they are out at the 'right' time 

[Spangles]

I re-designed and re-planted my garden last year. I have snowdrops and hellebores out, also my Daphne is ready to burst as are my Hamamelis and Sarcococca. The fragrances will be amazing 🌷🌺🌻

[dahliagirl]

I think winter gardens are so lovely.

I saw one in Anglesea Abbey in Cambridgeshire, quite a few years ago, when they first made it.  I have been inspired ever since.

Unfortunately the snow drops and aconites weren't so keen. 

I have some Viburnum tinus 'Eve Price' which is proving to be a good buy. 

[CLKD]

I found 2 aconites earlier today.   I can smell something, most be from the Winter flowering honeysuckle  ....... more hellebores open as well as a few snowdrops peeping up.  Birds are singing, nights are pulling out  [sorry Taz]

[Spangles]

Found a big fat juicey caterpillar today😊

[CLKD]

What did you do with your Juicey Caterpillar ;-)

I'm finding plenty of slugs hiding under leaves  ... I've been cutting back the leaves from hellebores plants this week.  The sun is warm on my back today  .  Birds are singing.  Sky is blue.  Lots to do once I get to ground level, looks like a 'quick 5 mins. outside' until I get on my knees 

[Spangles]

Hi CLKD,
I left the caterpillar to do his thing!
xXx

[CLKD]

Wonder what it will turn into ?

Been out in the sunshine this morning, it's quite warm whilst working.  Off to fed the birds!

[Spangles]

I think it was a moth caterpillar.
I had a few hours in the garden on Sunday, it was lovely. Did me the world of goo xXx

[CLKD]

Sunny
Tackled a lot of chores that had got buried in the recent snow falls
Sat in the sunshine listening to the birds, frogs, dogs barking  , saw a mouse .........
Birds about picking up nesting material or food for their females on nests
Daffs out.  Spaces to fill, I feel a garden centre trip coming on: better than an egg 4 Easter 

[CLKD]

I don't water until late evening unless plants in pots are wilting.  I can see two shrubs that are desperate, hopefully they will have set seed B4 this drought began.  Otherwise the hose goes out twice a week, I find it therapeutic.

Picked peas, raspberries, red-currants, white-currants - with the male blackbird looking at me with daggers drawn  . Freshly dug Spuds boiling gently with freshly picked mint 

The ground is solid and beginning to crack