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CLKD

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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #810 on: February 10, 2024, 01:33:50 PM »

My Spring garden looks lovely  :-*  8) and I have this morning decided that this is what our garden is good at.  Roses don't 'do' well here, sadly.  I am filling the borders with more shrubs ...... have 2 to move from front to back as they have become overwhelmed by lemon balm  ::) so failed to thrive.  The earth however is sodden  >:(, sticky and unsafe to walk on.  However ........  :whist:

I have 1 pair of very old jeans that will never see the washing machine again, they are on the kitchen floor tucked under a radiator.  When I feel the 'needs must' to get into the plot, I don those and off I goes.  Our hellebores are spreading, the winter flowering honeysuckle and clematis 'freckles' are attracting the odd honey bee  :-*
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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #811 on: February 12, 2024, 04:02:55 PM »

I now have 3 more hebes in the front border: removed two prunus from there and dug into two places in the back 'spring' garden. 

More buds are breaking up on various fruit trees  8)  :-*
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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #812 on: February 12, 2024, 06:33:06 PM »

Did an hour in the garden today. First time this year.  The grass is very wet.
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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #813 on: February 12, 2024, 06:35:51 PM »

Great time of year  8).  We don't have lawn.  Weeds come out of the ground easily after all the rain. 
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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #814 on: February 26, 2024, 02:47:53 PM »

Have spent 20 mins this afternoon removing any leaves/flowers from hellebores that show signs of disease, mainly blackening .... into the council bin for landfill, scissors in the dishwasher to be cleansed.  It spreads quickly - now that we have a lot of plants I am unable to keep up with cutting back the flowers, also I let them seed to get different colours.

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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #815 on: March 03, 2024, 04:10:34 PM »

I have 4/5 less than 100 hellebores flowering this year  8)
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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #816 on: March 05, 2024, 12:40:28 PM »

Plus 5 small plant-lets which are now set in a sheltered spot.  These will flower in about 4-5 years.
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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #817 on: March 17, 2024, 10:16:41 AM »

Every morning something new pops out of the ground or blossoms  8)  :-*


On Friday afternoon I spent a couple of hours putting clematis cuttings into soil in pots, hoping that some will root. Stood in our snug which gets sunshine.  Yesterday I put hebe cuttings into pots with a mix of fine grit and soil, stood in a shaded spot - again, hoping that some will root.  The sunshine was warm.

Now it's drizzling  >:(
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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #818 on: March 17, 2024, 04:02:56 PM »

5 dark purple tulips popped up in the night  :o they are growing in direct sunshine

Bees around the various prunus trees/shrubs

Spawn has hatched  8)
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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #819 on: Today at 07:44:10 AM »

Few anemones that had started to flower now flattened by a smattering of overnight snow.
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Re: All things gardening
« Reply #820 on: Today at 08:06:58 AM »

 :o.

Heavy rain continues intermittently in the South Midlands  >:(.  Cameallias flowering.  Fruit tree blossom flowering.  Not many bees though  :-\ Heathers looking lovely. Daffs and tulips popping up where I have forgotten that they are there  8)
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