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General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: bramble on June 15, 2014, 04:56:36 PM
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I don't know what I have been doing in the garden over the past few years but it just seems to have exploded this year. Everywhere I look stuff needs cut down drastically or moved or dug out. I am slowly working my way round but I find digging out stuff takes all my energy away. I have not got the stamina I once had. Three hours at a time in the garden is enough work for me now even though I used to be able to work in it all day. I am getting an area paved at the end of the month and that has given me the incentive to get a load of stuff done. Everyday I tick things off my list but add more on. My list seems never ending at the moment. I quite look forward o a wet day now as that means I have a rest!
What are you doing in your garden? Any projects or replanting? Or what is flowering its socks off for you at the moment?
Bramble
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Know the feeling, I have been tackling the weeds they seem to have taken over.
Want to take down an old shed and chicken coop to give me more room. The lawn needs attention, and a lovely blossom tree needs a good trim.
As you say the list gets ticked off and more things added.
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Making a special garden to remember my dog.( lost her 2 wks today :'( )
She use to lie in one corner in the shade and keep watch. That's where we are making it for her with Iris's, lavender and lots of other perennials.
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Discovered Cosmos plants this year. Love them.
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Cut back a winter flowering honeysuckle
Pruned roses
Cut for the house
Cut Sweet Williams for the house
Fed pond fish
Cuppa by the pond ;)
Found a nettle :o
Yesterday dug up 7 new potatoes for tea :-*
Cut back geraniums, the 'wild' ones - chickens like to peck the stems
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My poppies have gone wild this year. They are a good three weeks early and the blooms have been the size of dinner plates. Trouble is they have outgrown where they are. Hubby has chopped them back to nothing and I will move them when I can figure out where to put them.
Our raspberry canes have also gone wild. Suckers springing up all over.
The mild winter has sent things wild.
Honeyb
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What types of poppies? I have no where else for my Opium which are big orange flowers with dark black centres. The Welsh poppies spread but there are fewer this year.
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I have orange, red, pink and magenta opium poppies. They are lovely when flowering but leave a big gap in the border when over. Just finished tidying up round the greenhouse, emptying and stacking pots and chopping down yet another shrub. At this rate I will need two trips to the coup.
Bramble
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I cut ours down and have other plants that fill the gaps by spreading.
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Our town had its local Open Gardens yesterday in aid of a nearby hospice - hubby and I visited a few on our bikes to get some exercise. Judging by the gardens we saw I think everyone is the same, loads of colour to see and some very interesting garden ideas including one lady who makes her own cold-cast sculptures for the garden :)
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I love visiting gardens ……… I know ours is the best ;) but seeing larger gardens gives me ideas for what would be achievable should we have more space. Currently we are growing upwards …….. sadly the day gardens were opened nearby it POURED :(
I was due to open ours next week but we aren't here enough to get it 'round' for viewing ::)
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Opening my garden to the public would scare me stupid. I would spend weeks in it before hand getting it primped. My garden is a cottage style garden so it is supposed to be a bit wild and woolly. My neighbour across the way has a plant surrounded by loads of bare earth, then another plant etc. He abhors my style of 'pack em all in' gardening with not a bare patch of earth to be seen!
Bramble
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Just back from our community garden. It was 96° in the poly tunnel. Went in dry and came out with a very red face and decidedly damp. Everything in the tunnels are going mad, it's like a jungle. Came home with rhubarb from our outside bed.
Honeyb
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Rhubarb :sick02: ……… the best toms and cucs were ever grew were in a small polytunnel, enough humidity for both to thrive in the same space!
I enjoyed prepping our garden for visitors but that morning, was I nervous and went around muttering 'what made me say "yes" ' ;D it was the hottest day of that particular year so I was busy giving people glasses of cold water! Enjoyed it once people began to arrive …….. and would do it again.
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My neighbour across the way has a plant surrounded by loads of bare earth, then another plant etc. He abhors my style of 'pack em all in' gardening with not a bare patch of earth to be seen!
Bramble
Your style is my style too Bramble. I don't like to see any bare earth at all - I like my very small garden to be packed with flowers. I'm a bit disappointed this year though as perennial plants I ordered online failed to arrive in time to bloom this year and I had to chase delivery. Now I don't have the tall flowers towering at the back of the borders like I'd imagined. And I have to look after the plants over winter now and hope they will be OK for next year.
What can I plant now that will grow tall for late summer - Cosmos - Verbena?
Ariadne xx
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Cosmos and Verbena bonesiansis (sp) which should carry on into next year. I have grown Sweet Williams which are quite tall and very pretty. Have a look round the garden centre at the end of season too, for pots that need some TLC. Given a good soak and a feed, stood in the shade for a few days then planted out.
The verge sides are FULL of white daisies and look fab!
Did some weeding of the patio this morning until it became too hot!