Back to work in the Garden
The weather is warming up, the clocks have gone forward so it is time to start work in the garden again.
Morgan and I had a productive day yesterday.
- The lawns (if you can call them that) have been mowed. They’ve taken a bit of abuse over the winter from being waterlogged and from a pesky little mole and they aren’t looking great, but I’m sure they’ll recover.
- The willow and white poplar were cut right back as these will hopefully become a hedge along the edge of the garden.
- All the beds were edged, forked over and enriched with compost from our compost bins and the plants were all cut back and tidied up.
- The compost bins were forked through and sorted out.
Most things seem to have survived the winter, although the cold snap we had last week was quite a shock to the system to the already shooting Clematis and Gunnera. Now that things are tidy it is time to start getting a little creative out there. The first creative job will be to create a border around the deck out the front and fill it with bedding plants. As usual there are great plans for the garden, but no doubt it will be time-consuming enough just keeping on top of the grass!
Hopefully now that it has had some attention it will start to come to life.
