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[bramble]

The sun has been out for the last 2 days and it is DRY! Time to get started in the garden. Spent a couple of hours in it yesterday and today and I am tired with a sore back. I have a big garden - 2 lawns, a pond and borders  laid out with perennials and shrubs. So a LOT of work at this time of the year. I reckon I need another week to get it all done. I have filled 2 brown wheelie bins (garden waste) so tomorrow will have to start bagging the stuff - and then it will be black bag city for a month until I can get it all away. I only have about a quarter of it done. I think next year I may get someone in to help. (At times like these I wish I had a man with a trailer!).  The good thing is that the garden only needs concentrated effort at this time and at the back end as it looks after itself all through the summer apart from weed pulling and grass cutting.
Anyone got any plans for new garden features this year?

[CLKD]

We put in a cabin for DH 2 years ago - didn't use it much during 2013 but have been there a lot already.  No room for any 'extras' apart from small statues to place around the pond area.

Everything is sprouting fast now! 

"wild birds" etc. is another gardening thread ;-)

[Joyce]

That's why we got our place landscaped bramble. Too much back breaking work. Side section is well established now. Front is slowly getting there. At the back plants are in containers, as hubby thought it best. Easier for our grandkids to play, we can always shift the containers for safety.

[bramble]

Do you still have grass, Cubagirl?

Bramble

[Joyce]

No more grass. Both back & front lawns were like sponges. We would scarify it each year, put down moss killer. Lawn looked good for a couple of months, winter would come & we'd be back to square one.  We did this for years until I got fed up. We got a good landscape gardener in to do the back first, a year later the side and 4 years later the front. We got a few features put in the front which my neighbours all like.

[honeybun]

We made a start today. Hubby did a lot of clearing up and I took out a couple of lavender plants that were dead in the middle. I topped up the soil in the raised herb bed. Not that much done but it's a start.
I feel a trip to the nursery coming on for some new plants 


Honeyb
x

[Taz2]

We've booked the "tree man" to come and sort out our trees - that will be £500 thank you!  Poor trees.

Taz x

[honeybun]

The village we stay in seems to be obsessed with cutting down trees. Every other week another one bites the dust.
We own a little bit of land that have two large trees on it. When we moved in we had three neighbours at the door asking us to have them cut down. The land borders our garden and they give us privacy. Even if they blew down in a storm they would hit nothing. So we will keep them and the neighbours can cut other trees down.


Honeyb
x

[Taz2]

We have two huge flowering cherries against the side of the house at the front which tap nicely on the bedroom windows in a storm and an almost full sized damson - 70ft plus - plus apple tree and another tree which is massive but not sure what it is in the back garden. We have lived here 25 years and never had them pruned. The garden is tiny - 36ft wide and 35ft at it's deepest point - dwindling to 20ft - wedge shaped. The trees are lovely but we have no sun at all in the garden nowadays as they are so tall. I hate having to have bits cut off them especially as this time of year, with the leaves off, the garden isn't too bad but in the summer when the leaf cover is dense it does make everything very dark.. which isn't too bad for me but others do like to see a bit of sun 

Taz x

[CLKD]

Fruit trees need pruning. They also have a use - oh damsons  …… I hate having trees chopped down, although there are 2 large ash that need topping out but the council are being tardy ……… at least we have e-mails requesting that they do something and the replies that they will look 'next month' - from November! so if they fall/damage our property we have redress.

Our fruit trees are showing tiny leaf buds 

[Taz2]

I pick the damsons and my lovely friend makes them into jam for me. Result! 

Taz x

[CLKD]

Oh - pie with nice crust and cream please 

[bramble]

Can't believe we have had 6 days in a row with no rain. Had a day off yesterday and back in the garden today for another few hours. I have at least got the back of it broken and am on the homeward straight. Another few days of dry weather and it will be finished. Just have to find someone to rebuild a bit of dry stane dyke that has come down over the winter.

How are your trees Taz? down yet?

Bramble

[Hurdity]

Damsons yum - they're nice pickled and as chutney too! We have a tree - well they are wild plums I think but very small like damsons.

Have done a few hours gardening over the past week but not much. My husband has almost finished digging in the manure in the veg garden! I planted some tomato, Cosmos and Rudbeckia seeds in pots, but that doesn't count as it doesn't need gardening weather!!

Hurdity x

[CLKD]

Wild plums = bullous …………. small, dark plums, very sweet - not to be confused with sloes