Weeding again ! ☀️🌿

 

                                       Aaah ...at last the sun has returned .

So much I want to do in the garden . It is very squelchy slippery underfoot . I decided to make a start and just do one small area .This little bed  was choked  with Ivy and three Sloe and a Sycamore sapling .  I still need to do some more work to get the Sycamore out .

I pruned the Cornus alba siberica  back down to about two or three inches .I want lots more of these lovely red stems which we enjoy through the winter .

I left a couple of the ones at the back , to enjoy for a  bit longer .

I may plant these out somewhere, I have bundled them up on the Summer house deck , for the time being while I have a think about it .

Those are some of my Agave babies and cacti sheltering from the winter weather on the table inside . I am longing to put them all back into the greenhouse . . . but the greenhouse is no longer my happy place  , with it's leaking roof and the bad atmosphere that the greenhouse builder men have left up there .  Nothing more is going to be done about it now . Husband gets angry . I have to make the best of it ..at the moment it makes me feel ill .

I will begin to try and take my plants back up there soon and make it a happy a place again .

We are having a new fence and gate built up there , which I went up to see this morning  . Gave my heart such a lift ! I didn't expect anything so smart !  

We occasionally have visiting deer , which I love to see , but don't really want getting into the vegetable garden . 

Anyway , I pulled out lots of Ivy , revealing  Hellebores and Primroses underneath ....

.....and this .  A seedling Phoenix Canariensis which has somehow found it's way there . Maybe brought in by a squirrel from my giant palm up in the vegetable garden . I'm delighted , but it can't stay there !

So all it needs now is a nice mulch of woodchip . 

 Mission complete .... well almost ....I still need to do a bit more tidying up around the back .

Tomorrow I will work on the bed on the other side of the Summer house steps .

Sweet pea update -

I sowed these in November . I wrapped up the tub as you can see with fleece .They are tough little things as far as the cold goes , they can take the cold , but their stems can snap in the severe gales the we often get here .So the fleece wrapping is a good idea .

However this past week we have had wave after wave of big named storms . Storm Eowyn actually blew this big heavy tub over onto it's side ! Twice ! I need to have a peek inside . 

Hmm...a little bit bashed about but not too bad . I will pinch them out a little bit , which will make them bush out and grow even stronger  . 

This will give me lovely early Sweet peas and when they finish I will be growing Black Eye Suzie's again ....because my mum loves them and I have the seeds of the ones I saved from the ones I grew last year just waiting in the wings . 

But they can wait .... because tomorrow... is the day ....I sow my Tomato seeds ! 

                                       🌿  Happy gardening all ! 🌿

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