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[CLKD]

That's a good reminder!    and do put the lids on as mozzies will hatch and swim around, those gnats that BITE.  Hard.  We have 7 barrels - 3 are joined onto each other.  Another off a shed at the back and two at the front: when the down. pipe has filled the larger of these two, DH buckets water into the smaller ......

 

[CLKD]

Roses: hollyhocks in 3 colours: autumnal colours lovely ....... and we need a new holding barrel  all that recent rain, GONE to waste 

[CLKD]

Barrel brought and fixed in place: filled already  - the other will store logs close to the shed, ready to dry and bring inside.  Lid still fits.  Recycling: of course 

[Minusminnie]

First signs of some snowdrops coming up.
Picked up 2 bags of spent coffee grindings from coffee shop today to go around camellia.

[CLKD]

I noticed daffs and crocus peeping through already in tubs, will be adding another layer of compost.

I put used tea leaves and coffee grounds round heathers and camellias. 

[CLKD]

Hellebores buds appearing so I've cut back most of the leaves - instead of putting them into the Council bin I've stuffed them into a large tub on it's side as I found lots of ladybirds underneath the plants. 

A few daffs showing in the pots ....... need to top those up in case of snowy weather.

Milder.  Very blustery.  Wind across the plot in great gusts, quite scary  .

[CLKD]

Snowdrops - in a neighbours' garden which gets sunshine all day.  They were 1st up 12 months ago.  There are crocii and daffs peeping up in our tubs 

[CLKD]

One aconite and a small clump of snowdrops 

[CLKD]

Our pink flowering Spring tree is in blossom  .  Mid-Summer I pruned the tips of the branches so that it doesn't get too tall.  I'll probably leave it this year unless it 'gets away'.  Hellebores opening every day in various shades of cream, dark purple/black, reds, all with spotty centres.   . They are promiscuous so once the platelets *predictive text*  = plantlets are large enough, I put them into pots to grow on and in 4-5 years they will go into the main borders.

[Minusminnie]

First camellia bud open in our garden.  Snowdrops and a few hellebores out too.  Roll on spring/summer and more colour.

[CLKD]

Our camellia buds are small yet.  One bush is over 20 years old, the 1 in the pot about 5.  That has trouble with its leaves, some turn black on the edges so we moved it out of direct sunshine.  If I had space I would have an orchard of them.

[CLKD]

Heather in flower :-)

[Minusminnie]

the 1 in the pot about 5. 

All my pots apart from granddaughters few are going this year so that I’m just left with borders to do and any veg patch weeding. OH does the planting there. Nothing has done that well in pots recent years.

[CLKD]

Morning.  I tried to put all the plants into borders but when I saw something I liked, it went into pots due to lack of space.  Once they get pot bound they tend to fade ........


This morning I have moved some hellebores and dug out lots of celandines which spread too easily.  Lunch to hand.

[CLKD]

Been to a Garden Centre for light lunch then bought bean seeds and 2 pyracantha shrubs - 1 is in the border already .........