Garden Omnibus

Of late we have done little else but garden, although we have had a little socialising thrown in. The perfect balance as far as I am concerned. However I am conscious that you are probably totally fed up with me prattling on about the garden so I have refrained from reporting every plant I've planted. Then I reflected that we told you about every bit of plasterboard we erected so what's the difference!!

Having prepared the new beds it's time for the fun bit, filling them up. As you know we planted the 120 bare root lavenders and I was relieved to see signs of growth on some today. We have selected and split plants from the serpentine bed which will grow on rock and very little soil and moved them to the raised bed. I have arranged them in large blocks for a different effect. Sorry there are no photos at present as half dead plants that need to fill out do not look very impressive. However I am pleased with how things are progressing. About half the raised bed is planted and I have seeds to plant, cuttings to grow on and more plants to source.

I have more seeds than ever growing on in the house and porcherie this year. John has installed lighting in the porcherie so I have much more production space. I think I will be planting things out for the next month. John's assistance has been invaluable this year and today we planted 200 crocosmia corms, a drop in the ocean compared to what we have to do. We have had frosts each morning so that has meant I've had to protect a lot of things. Well it's all change today and the temperatures have soared to the mid twenties, so we have had to change tack to watering mode to keep the transplanted plants alive. John is now fretting about his beloved grass (well mown field) growing faster than he can cut it. As you know gardeners are like farmers, the weather is never right!!

 

We are reveling in Spring and I thought I would show you some delights from our wild bank.