{"id":15829,"date":"2014-03-16T12:33:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T12:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15829"},"modified":"2014-03-16T12:31:11","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T12:31:11","slug":"day-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/03\/day-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following our walk along the beach in order to complete the Earth Cache at Ynyslas<\/a> it was time for a day working in the garden.<\/p>\n

Winter has certainly taken its toll on the garden, the crazy storms<\/a>, record breaking winds<\/a> and flood have all had an impact and the garden has only just started to recover from them. The moles haven’t helped either. The bottom of the garden is still quite soggy so we started out the front. I’d already made a start on the lavender border around the deck so finished this off and then we set to work weeding and tidying up the rest of the front garden. This went well and it was soon looking a little more respectable so we stopped for lunch and then inspected the bees – our first proper inspection of the beekeeping season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All was well with the bees too, so it was now time for me to ‘play’ with my new toy. A new lawn-mower that we bought last week as my old one had pretty much fallen apart. It seemed to work well and I soon had the lawn mowed and things were looking up. There was of course still loads to do in the garden, but it’s surprising what mowing the lawn can do to help improve how it looks.<\/p>\n

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I\u00a0didn’t stop there though and continued on with the general clear up. Edgeing and weeding the alium border next to the conservatory and making a start on the other borders too. There are signs of life everywhere and its good to see that most things seem to have survived. The daffodils are out in full bloom at the moment and some of the earlier ones are almost finished. The crocuses have almost finished too, but tulips are making good progress and the marsh marigolds are flowering. The aliums are beginning to grow quite well and even our rhubarb is making quite an effort. Elsewhere the poached egg plants are coming on well and spreading like mad, the welsh onions seem quite happy and most of the perennials are beginning to show signs of life.<\/p>\n\n\t\t