Spurred on by Elaine at A Woman of the Soil I went out to tidy up the greenhouse yesterday. I need to get all the geraniums and fuschias lifted, I still have some cuttings to take and some seeds to sow. LOADS to do .... so why does it look exactly the same today as it did yesterday? How did I get side tracked so easily? Why does this always happen whenever I am gardening??
The sun was shining so collecting the sweetpea pods and planting a few cyclamen seemed like a much better idea!
The roses are looking good and smelling delightful!
The leaves are not so good!
I will be prunning most of them right back this year after listening to Ann Bird of the Rose Society at the Garden Club. I have cut them back in the past but not nearly enough according to her. She REALLY prunes!
Here are my Autumn favourites for this week:
The Sedum takes over the kitchen border. I remembered to put the plant supports in this year so there isn't a bald patch in the middle! So easy to grow: cuttings are blooming all down the lane and in neighbours' gardens.
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| Pyracantha |
Wild birds soon find the Pyracantha berries.
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| Comma |
You still have some lovely colour in the garden - if it wasn't for the annuals in my garden it would be looking very drab. I have gradually come to like Sedums after thinking for a long time that they were a bit like flowering cauliflowers - I have now relented and bought one and nicked a cutting from someone else - they do look lovely at this time of year. Like you I always get sidetracked - I set out to do one thing and end up doing a dozen others. But I expect all the jobs will get done eventually - I have bulbs on my mind at the moment.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your EOMV Pat. I think that getting sidetracked in the garden must be something that we all experience - so easy to see something that needs doing out of the corner of your eye and then you are off and running :) I'm sure that you will get all those tasks done eventually. I like the shade of those little chrysanths.
ReplyDeleteBeing sidetracked is an occupational hazard when you are a gardener! Glad I am not the only one to suffer from it.
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