During our visit to Tyler's Garden Centre in Melbourn we decided to invest in a few plants as follows.
1 x Hosta Sum & Substance
1 x Hosta Diana Remembered
1 x Heuchera Fall Festival
6 x Crysanthemum Spray Pink
1 x Osteospermum
1 x Viola Rocky F1
1 x Senetti
I have found some of these on the RHS website, but not all. Hopefully they'll do ok, and updates and photographs may follow.
I watered the plants in the mini greenhouse this morning. No mishaps this time.
I noticed a flower on the Snap Dragons by the front step this morning. We weren't sure these would survive from last year, but they appear to have done.
Thursday, 7 May 2015
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
A guess it's a prologue
To bring me up to speed, this is a brief summery of what has happened in the garden recently.
Lawn mowing. This is something I'm happy to do as it gives me an hour or so to talk to myself in my head. We have a small strip in front of the property, (I do the neighbours too, as she is getting on a little), then the rest of the front garden, and then the rear lawn.
The lawn in the front is very mossy, as is the very back of the back lawn. I'm assuming it is because this gets less sunshine and holds moisture better. There are also many dandelions in the back lawn.
For the past couple of months I have been attempting to grown so plants from seed. Salvia's, Foxgloves, Petunia's and Dahlia's. Last weekend I erected a mini greenhouse, the Salvia's and Dahlia's have now been put in here. The Foxgloves and the Petunia's have been a little less successful, and are still on the propagator indoors.
I also purchased the Cottage Garden Collection, from Thompson & Morgan. The arrived last week and were potted up on Monday and straight in the mini-greenhouse. I don't know if this is the right thing to do, but I do know that knocking them all over the floor the following day, when going to water them is not the best idea. I guess these things happen.
Also on Monday, I decided to fork the far right corner of the back garden. I want to turn it into a some sort of productive bed, but it is in constant shade so I shall have to be careful what I put here. Jazz, our fat bellied silk furred lady cat, thinks that I spent a good hour making a lovely latrine for her. I'd rather her do it there than in the house, but it is rude for her to sit there waiting for me to finish raking and as soon as my back is turned...
When 'starting gardening' last year, I dug this with a spade to find that 10 years ago when the previous council pirates, er, I mean tenants, lived in the house, they must have decided that this was a good place to bury treasure. Treasure, that is if you count asbestos as treasure. The majority of this was removed, but the occasional piece rears its ugly head. Although I did find a silver teaspoon too, so maybe there is a hidden hoard further down.
Lawn mowing. This is something I'm happy to do as it gives me an hour or so to talk to myself in my head. We have a small strip in front of the property, (I do the neighbours too, as she is getting on a little), then the rest of the front garden, and then the rear lawn.
The lawn in the front is very mossy, as is the very back of the back lawn. I'm assuming it is because this gets less sunshine and holds moisture better. There are also many dandelions in the back lawn.
For the past couple of months I have been attempting to grown so plants from seed. Salvia's, Foxgloves, Petunia's and Dahlia's. Last weekend I erected a mini greenhouse, the Salvia's and Dahlia's have now been put in here. The Foxgloves and the Petunia's have been a little less successful, and are still on the propagator indoors.
I also purchased the Cottage Garden Collection, from Thompson & Morgan. The arrived last week and were potted up on Monday and straight in the mini-greenhouse. I don't know if this is the right thing to do, but I do know that knocking them all over the floor the following day, when going to water them is not the best idea. I guess these things happen.
Also on Monday, I decided to fork the far right corner of the back garden. I want to turn it into a some sort of productive bed, but it is in constant shade so I shall have to be careful what I put here. Jazz, our fat bellied silk furred lady cat, thinks that I spent a good hour making a lovely latrine for her. I'd rather her do it there than in the house, but it is rude for her to sit there waiting for me to finish raking and as soon as my back is turned...
When 'starting gardening' last year, I dug this with a spade to find that 10 years ago when the previous council pirates, er, I mean tenants, lived in the house, they must have decided that this was a good place to bury treasure. Treasure, that is if you count asbestos as treasure. The majority of this was removed, but the occasional piece rears its ugly head. Although I did find a silver teaspoon too, so maybe there is a hidden hoard further down.
All the dreams of Percy Thrower
All those years of watching Blue Peter on BBC 1 as a child, and not at any point did I think that the Blue Peter garden was the most enthralling section of the show. In fact, they would have been lucky if I didn't turn over to ITV and watch something equally uninteresting, '...but at least it wasn't gardening!'.
Now, I like to think I'm a little more mature. I have learnt never to turn over to ITV for a start. And I am more appreciative of the comforts of home but also realize I have to work at them. So I have decided that I would very much like to have a nice garden. The only problem is I have absolutely no idea what I am doing.
My partner Sarah, and I started to do something about the state of the garden last year, and for a short month or two, it looked reasonable. No Chelsea winner, but at least it wasn't all weeds. Over winter (and probably more accurately the football season) it has been neglected once again, but I do really want to make it decent, and hopefully this blog will keep me motivated. After all, that is the only reason I am writing it.
It is really going to be a log/diary of what I am doing in the garden and of what my thoughts about it are and possibly how futile they are. Armed with very little knowledge and all the information of the internet and exceedingly shallow pockets, it is likely to be a notepad of frustration.
So 'Tales from my Neglected Garden' will probably not be the most exciting gardening blog, or the most articulate piece of literature, but we shall see how it goes.
Now, I like to think I'm a little more mature. I have learnt never to turn over to ITV for a start. And I am more appreciative of the comforts of home but also realize I have to work at them. So I have decided that I would very much like to have a nice garden. The only problem is I have absolutely no idea what I am doing.
My partner Sarah, and I started to do something about the state of the garden last year, and for a short month or two, it looked reasonable. No Chelsea winner, but at least it wasn't all weeds. Over winter (and probably more accurately the football season) it has been neglected once again, but I do really want to make it decent, and hopefully this blog will keep me motivated. After all, that is the only reason I am writing it.
It is really going to be a log/diary of what I am doing in the garden and of what my thoughts about it are and possibly how futile they are. Armed with very little knowledge and all the information of the internet and exceedingly shallow pockets, it is likely to be a notepad of frustration.
So 'Tales from my Neglected Garden' will probably not be the most exciting gardening blog, or the most articulate piece of literature, but we shall see how it goes.
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