Soon be bedtime...

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 for the garden at least.  Work in the craft room has been temporarily put on hold, as I have been anxious to finish off as much as possible in the garden whilst I can still get out there without freezing my fingers off 😉  I think I have now just about reached the point where the garden will have to be left to its own devices for a few months, but I do still have a few photos to share with you!  

Last month I told you that I had moved some ferns into this raised bed near the bathroom extension.  I have since moved a somewhat sad-looking butterfly bush and two more ferns into the bed, along with a lamium.  They had all been in the path border that will eventually be grassed over.  I really must get that little bird bath scrubbed out 😳

The old wheelbarrow had spent the summer in the kitchen courtyard, filled with argyranthemum Grandaisy Pink Halo.  They have been moved into the greenhouse for the winter, so I was able to get some winter/spring bedding planted in their place.  The barrow is now filled with primula Scentsation Rhubard and Custard.  I also moved it round to the front garden, to sit on the stone chippings near the fern bed.

The little plugs had been languishing in the plant tray they had been grown in and were starting to look a little sad, so I was eager to get the poor little buggers planted out!  They soon perked up and one has even started to flower 😊 

I was very happy to finally get the rest of the strawberries moved, as it was a job that I really didn't want to leave half done.  I spread bark chippings on and around the pots as a tidy finishing touch.

I still have about a dozen or so plants left, which I haven't quite decided what to do with.  I may move them out the back, as ground cover in the beds over in the more "utility" side of the garden.  That's a job that I will probably leave until spring to do, as I won't be needing this bed until I'm ready to plant next year's potato tubers. 

The raised bed in the new patio area is also finished.  Adrian dug out the plants from the path border for me, and I sat on my trusty garden stool whilst I put them in their new home.  The soil was less soggy than it had been towards the top, but was still pretty claggy when I had to dig further down to make larger holes for the plants with bigger roots.

Adrian also dug out clumps of the London Pride (I think that's what it is, anyway!) that edges the path border, which I planted in the tubs with the roses and buddleja.

The path border is now looking pretty bare.  I'll dig out the rest of the London Pride in the spring and move it elsewhere.  No doubt there will still be remnants of the dreaded dwarf elder lurking which we'll have to dig out, but hopefully we will get it seeded next year and looking tidy out there!

By the end of last week the greenhouse was starting to fill up with the tender perennials.....next time I'll show you how much is crammed in there now 😄