Thinking Days

 

                          The sun has returned . 

         My Achilles ankle is hurting so am not allowed to do much for a couple of days .

Meanwhile on the bedroom windowsill - My Turmeric plant is looking fabulous ! 

My only thought now is  of how big it is going to get and can I get it through the Winter months . Will it be happy on the windowsill or should I take it up to the greenhouse  ?  🤔

                                   The smaller weirdo plant is Ginger ! 

Anyway the lovely leaves of the Turmeric reminded me of the Banana plants outside .

I should be taking out the Musa Ensete maurelii - ( the red one )  sometime soon  and moving it into it's overwintering shelter .

The green one is Musa basjoo - this is the hardy one . I'll talk about that in a bit ....more thinking to be done  🤔

I looked through my records to remind myself of when I usually do this .  🤔

So here I am digging it out ....it seems that I did this around 25th September  .

So I have a couple of weeks still to get organised  .

I need a couple more bags of good compost . I take them up with as much of a good root-ball and earth as I can and put them into their tubs with lovely fresh compost to get their roots down into . I water to settle them in then that's it really . I hardly give any watering over Winter . They ( I actually have two of these ) are then dragged into their shelter zones under cover . They have light from the overhead corrugated plastic roof . 

                                Musa basjoo -  the hardy one .

At least I hope it is ! I kept it under cover last winter , because it was , I felt , too small . 

This year I am going to be very brave and leave it in the ground  and make some kind of a frame to go over it . 🤔

Scary !   

Then I had an idea !  🤔💡 🍇🌿😃

The old grapevine arbor/arch . I had twice tried to put it back up , but it just keeps falling down and is very rickety and broken in several places . We were going to chop it up for fire wood , but now I'm thinking . 🤔

 If we cut it down by a third , it could make an attractive (in a wonky kind of way ) shelter to go over the banana plant !  😃

Might even paint it ! 🤩

Anyway , as you can see , I haven't really done much about this area that I was recently saying needs smartening up .

Well , this is because it's not one of those garden make-over shows and Rome wasn't built in a day !

... and I've been really busy doing this !

Clearing the pathway/route up and around this shrubby slightly sloping bed , so that I can prune the bushes and trees ...I need to check on a newly planted red leafed Acer that is up there in front of the Holly tree .

There are a couple of  trees that have got to go .

🕊️And we have a new dovecot to replace the one that was smashed down in the storms last year . I need to clear out the remaining broken bits of the base of the old one . 

I was heartbroken when that came down in the winter storms . My sweet heart daughter and son in law bought us a lovely new one . 🕊️

There is a lot of thinking to be done here too  🤔

I'm going to clear everything back from the Cornish hedge , take out any Sycamore and Sloe bushes that are germinating  . They are a real pain ! I think I have cleared most of the brambles in this first part of the way . 

Possibly that fir tree is on it's way out .

I will dig a large hole while the earth is soft , wet and easy to dig and next year I think that one of the Red Musa Banoonahs will look quite splendid here . 

Lower down than I usually plant it .🤔 It should look nice with the Cornish hedge behind it .

More thinking !  🤔 At the moment I can easily climb up onto this bed and there is a little step , it would be better if it was wider . 🤔 So , I am going to move some of the rocks around , to widen that step .

You can go now if you're bored ....

So I printed out a picture of this , numbered to rocks and cut them out .....to help my husband visualise what I am planning  .

Then I moved them into their new positions ....

That's just my keyboard underneath the picture ....so I cut out a bit of the undergrowth to fill in the gap .

...and stuck it where the new widened bit of the step will be . 

I would like to take out number one and two , and make it a little bit bigger still but Ricardo is not sure about that . 

                      It's o.k ....everything will be okay.....I know what I'm doing . 

                                 Debbie knows what she is doing ! 

                                                  I is knowing !                    

                                                     🌿☀️🌿