The
countdown to coving has begun, with the bedroom pencilled in for Sunday so to pass
the time, its trowels out for a spot of garden therapy.
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| Looking slightly wild these days |
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| Climbing roses branching out with the vitality of spring |
No
more pieces of pontificating puff, political pot-shots or rambling piffle as the
other half has threatened to pull the plug on the PC if he so much as gets a whiff of another one of my so called ‘cyber rants’.
‘It’s not the purpose of the internet’ he says. What is?
Meanwhile
back in our chaotic, overgrown garden, it’s all a question of getting some
order back into the borders. There’s one
particular section in the bottom right hand corner in front of the rhododendron
area that’s crying out for a good seeing to.
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| Back of garden needs a bit of a primp |
Over
the years, a type of wild white bell has been rapidly smothering every patch of
bare earth. These pretty bells with
their faint smell of onions/garlic are prolific growers and whilst they look
lovely in the spring, they are now becoming a bit of a gardening pain in the
butt.
I’ve
dug up a large area of the flower bed sifting carefully through the dirt to
pick out all the small white bulbs in a bid to get rid of this menace but I
suspect that these crafty blighters will have found a way of regrouping to
blitz the borders next springtime.
I’ve
stuck in a few more ‘yellow ticket’ specials including a hydrangea, some
dianthus, a couple of Bleeding Heart plants and a lovely dark coloured Sambucus
Nigra called ‘Black Beauty’ which I hope will add both height and colour to the
flower bed.
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| Adding a bit of colour to the weed infested border |
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| Sambucus Nigra 'Black Beauty' |
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| Already starting to flower |
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