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Post by grindle on Nov 10, 2024 4:27:45 GMT
finished planting the bulbs 150 of them in the back, just 35 now to put by the front path and cut back some of the dead perennials
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Post by seaburn on Nov 10, 2024 17:23:24 GMT
Had a day pottering in the greenhouse, potting up bulbs and checking for vine weevil in primulas.
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Post by balc2 on Nov 10, 2024 18:58:20 GMT
I've not done anything today or yesterday!  I only took out some trays of Pansies my son had brought round after I asked him to get me a couple of trays a few days ago. seaburn, I didn't know Primulas suffered from Vine Weevils! I didn't notice any in my pots of Primulas when I planted them out last week in one of the planters around the cash machine! Years ago I had an infestation which practically killed my Fuchsias before I recognised the signs. |
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Post by geumgrower on Nov 10, 2024 20:47:41 GMT
We chain sawed the Oak logs. Collected a few barrow loads of leaves. Moved about half the soil from the old raised bed to the new. Had a quick look at the seed pots, Iris innominata showing as are something grandiflora (tall grass like leaves, perigrinans is another form), some what I hope are Red cone flower seedlings and Helianthemum. pricking out will have to wait until spring though. Libertia grandiflora by the way.
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Post by grindle on Nov 11, 2024 3:52:58 GMT
nothing yesterday, had to catch up indoors  |
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Post by Cherry on Nov 11, 2024 10:45:48 GMT
I pruned my Gooseberry and Redcurrant bushes and cut down the lavender bushes, after my flu which lasted a month. The lavenders will be removed completely when I have more time as I had to cut back into the woody part of the plant. I didn’t know that Gosseberry can layer itself when the branches are very low. I am really pleased as this red variety made beautiful jam as well as being a sweet variety.
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Post by lesley on Nov 11, 2024 18:45:23 GMT
Nothing much sweeping up leaves from next doors trees  |
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Post by geumgrower on Nov 11, 2024 20:59:01 GMT
Completed raised bed, just going to let it settle before planting.   |
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Post by balc2 on Nov 11, 2024 21:24:04 GMT
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Post by balc2 on Nov 11, 2024 21:30:57 GMT
I haven't done anything on the balcony but I did go to the planters around the cash machine. My son & granddaughter brought me some spent compost so between us we dumped it in the planter where the Cosmos had been flowering all summer. With my granddaughter's help I pulled up the Cosmos & got rid of them. It was a shame as they still had lots of flowers. Tomorrow I will plant the Daffodil bulbs & then the Pansies on top & that will be it for this year! Though I will probably still take a picture or two each month till they flower properly in the spring when I shall take lots more!  |
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Post by grindle on Nov 12, 2024 4:51:08 GMT
nice work geumgrower once I'd finished washing and housework I got to have a trip to the tip  got rid of all the wood I'd bagged up plus a few other bits such an exciting day  |
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Post by geumgrower on Nov 12, 2024 14:40:39 GMT
The Boss and I managed to cut down the 20-foot tall dead piece of a Hazel. Shredded the Laurel that had to be removed to get at it and carried the logs etc. down to our neighbours. Took all the debris from the raised bed construction to the tip. Removed a lot of leaves from the guttering on the roof. I will need to get up there when all the leaves have come down and clear it all properly. A nuisance as it means putting the roof ladder together to get up there.
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Post by balc2 on Nov 12, 2024 20:57:35 GMT
My, you have been busy, geumgrower! You will be grateful for having cleared out some of the leaves now before they start to rot down & make cleaning them out even more difficult later on! |
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Post by balc2 on Nov 12, 2024 21:11:26 GMT
During the morning today I took out the Pansies I'd planted in the pots on the balcony railing, (to put in the planter around the cash machine), & put the new, much bigger ones that are in flower, in their place. As the others had only been in the pots for about 5 days the roots, as I suspected, hadn't yet made it out of their rootballs & into the compost in the pots. So no damage will have happened to them.
Here they are on the balcony railings:
As I had six left over, (my son brought me 3 trays of 6 in each), I put just 1 in each pot on the railings. I wanted to put them somewhere where we could easy see them from the balcony door. I found to 2 clay half pots & a low glazed pot which I put them in. Later when I finish organizing the balcony I will put them in front of the balcony door & then we will be able to enjoy them, from the warmth of the living room, all winter!    
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Post by grindle on Nov 13, 2024 3:11:16 GMT
looking nice and cheerful balc2 made a start on a revamp for the front garden, took ages chopping out a huge fern that was growing into the wall, cleared a big patch of crocosmia leaves, lastly I butchered a cotinus it was hitting my neighbours and our front window, still a bit more to come off, I'll see if it grows back in the spring, it did say you could coppice it. Cut a lot of it up and bagged it ready for the tip hopefully today |
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I only took out some trays of Pansies my son had brought round after I asked him to get me a couple of trays a few days ago.
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