What a beautiful day it was yesterday and today looks promising too. The resultant photos were too bright but, I hope, clear enough. This morning is very frosty so it will be a while before I can go out to weed and prune.
Meanwhile, here is my Six-on-Saturday for this week.
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I took this several days ago just as I was about to prune the gaura. I hadn’t noticed the red stems before. They don’t quite compete with the dogwood but pretty none the less.
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The gaura had a couple of week’s reprieve, then this giant decided to attack it!
Looks a bit tidier now. I’ve left the penstemon just now, but cleared out nearly all of the perennial geraniums and nearly all of the forget-me-nots. There are plenty of bulbs showing around the garden now in fact there is a group between the bird and the pruned lavender
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I’ve started to fill in the border at the front of the greenhouse having removed the stonecrop and the weeds. It will need a lot more stones but it’s better.
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I always think the chunky buds of the peonies are a promising sign of spring.
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I have found the first snowdrops – badly photographed and too bright but very welcome.
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My homemade bucket/bin mop. A few strips of towel stapled to the end of a pole. It’s very effective and saves me putting my arm too far down into grubby bins, invariably getting mud or gunge up my sleeve. I didn’t want to use the in-house floor mop and can’t get to Wilko at the moment, so this suffices.
There are now 14 of the 16 of Fred’s Sweet peas showing. 🙂
That’s it again. It’s getting near to the main seed sowing season now so time to wash the flowerpots and seed trays.
Have a good weekend in the garden.