Weeding , weeding , weeding 🌿

So now that I'm pretty much up to date in the vegetable garden , I can allow myself some time to get the ornamental garden back up to scratch .

There are lots of cowslips and primroses in this bed and they are now finishing their lovely spring display . The weeds have crept in .

 

   A little rock feature that I made where the thrush comes to smash snails and wash them in the little pool of water that collects in the hollow of the rock on top .

It is a rock that looks as if it may have been used in the past for grinding corn , polishing  or sharpening tools . The Blackbirds and the Thrush make good use of it now .

Here there is annoying couch grass , the odd stinging nettle and rambling bramble which roots everywhere it touches down . I constantly pull up Ivy coming from under and over the fence . I try my best to keep on top of it .

I decided to strip out all the Cowslips and a couple of Dahlias and do a proper job of twiddling out all the couch grass bulbils .

I dismantled the rock feature ......well... I lifted off that top slab and pulled out as much as I could . 

The other rocks were just too heavy for me to move . I wonder how I ever lifted them there in the first place !

  I worked my way around and filled up two wheelbarrows !

Tidied up that Chamaerops humilis by removing one or two leaves and pulling out a very long bramble .  

                                   I filled two wheelbarrows !

Looks so much better now !  

I re-planted the Dahlias and am having a re-think about what to plant in here . 

    Alpines or succulents , some low growing things 😊🌿💛

 I'm pretty much resting up today .

                                        Peace and Love

                                            Debbie x

Musa ensete maurellii no 2 - planting 🌿

                     Musa ensete maurellii no.2  The red leaved one .

  It is too tender to leave out over winter . Now in the ground and looking good .  

Musa basjoo , the green leaved one in the foreground , survived the winter . Only occasionally put a cloche over it . 

Going to throw some chicken pellets down around them both , to give them a bit of a boost !

   The wind has died down now , I got a load of washing dry on the line .

Feeling tired but happier than I was yesterday 😊💐🌿

          🌧️  More rain on the way !  🌧️🌧️🌧️

                   Peace and Love 💐

                          Debbie x

I'm devastated ! 💔

 We're having a severe gale right now down here on the Lizard Cornwall . 

I had thought we were o.k. until I walked around my garden and saw this !

Tetrapanax papyrifer rex .....smashed !  That's the top of it laying on the grass .

It was doing so well all through winter ....and through all the storms ..and we had some big storms this winter !

 It made it through and put out all these beautiful branches .

I just don't understand how it could have happened 😞 I am so upset .

It is in a very bushy and sheltered place . Not only has it been smashed , but the top part which is huge , is laying quite some distance from the trunk .....very odd .

         I am heart broken . There is only one small leaf left on it 😞

                That little one hanging down dropped off .

        The one remaining leaf is not looking all that good ..... sigh ...

Could that be a new leaf shoot coming above the one remaining leaf ?  Maybe ? 

I have made a start clearing all the weeds around it . I am hoping it might put out some off shoots around it's base .

That would be good as I have a few people who would love a rooted cutting .

It might put out some new leaves along the remaining stem . 

I'm not giving up on it . It is one of my favourite "tropical jungle" plants .

                  Oh ! ......heartbroken !

                         All fer now ......love Debbie  x