Monday and Tuesday this week were lazy days, really, as was Sunday. I got caught up with all the laundry though ~ who knew just two people could create so much washing between them LOL ~ as well as paperwork and emails, so I was kept out of mischief!
Yesterday was lovely ~ sunny and warm with a wide expanse of blue sky as you can see from the photo above. I decided to make my first job having a stroll around the front and back gardens ~ you know, just to depress myself with how much work is waiting to be done out there 😉 As it was such a nice day, I thought I'd take some photos to bore you with share with you. I took rather a lot, I'm afraid, so I'm sure you'll be pleased to hear that I'll post those I took in the back garden another day 😄
It's amazing how much the plants have grown since I shared the photos I'd taken a few weeks back. I'm so pleased with this bed as all the plants that were moved seem to have settled down very nicely into their new home. The rather lovely purple plant in flower at the moment is symphytum x uplandicum Moorland Heather. It's so nice to get such a close view of the plant now that it's in this raised bed.
The London Pride in the wooden tubs are sending out their delicate pink flower stems ~ they are such a pretty plant. The roses and buddleja have lots of new growth too.
The only piece of lawn that we have now is over on the ornamental side of the front garden. As you can see, we don't go in for a "bowling green" style lawn 😏 Still, the dandelions and daisies are good for the bees and other insects and although Adrian mowed the lawn today, they will soon be back to mock us! Just look at that sodding dwarf elder still coming through 😠 The border will definitely have to lie fallow for this year at least whilst we try to eradicate the bloody stuff.
All the ornamental borders on this side of the garden need to be tackled this year, otherwise it's just going to get harder to tidy them up. The lenten roses are still flowering. They are growing very well in this spot, so I guess they are happy here.
The peonies just keep on getting bigger, with more buds, each year. I've probably mentioned before that they were already in the garden when we moved in. I just dug them up and moved them to where I wanted them to be. I've read that they don't really like to be moved but these guys didn't seem to mind!
The two clumps of poppies in the front wall border get larger each year, too. They are such delicate-looking little flowers but are obviously tougher than they look 😄 I see the border is full of that horrible sticky weed again, so I shall have to remember to wear long sleeves when I tackle it.
I'm hoping that we get time to tackle the "wild" area this year. The little nature pool is under all that growth somewhere, believe it or not! It's going be rather a big job, I fear sigh I want to make the pool larger, so I think that virtually everything will have to be dug out 😖 Probably best not to think too much about that at the moment, eh 😉
I was pleased to see that the kitchen garden beds haven't sprouted as many weeds as I feared they would whilst we've been away. This bed is the worst of the four "working" beds, and I don't think it will take too long to clear it out, thankfully.
The strawberries are looking good, with some flowers starting to appear now. I think I may transplant some of the narcissus bulbs I grew for cutting into that gap in the middle of the two sections of pots.
The celery plants that survived are looking rather good. I still have no idea, to be honest, what I'm doing with them but.....
beneath that canopy of luscious green leaves appear to be stalks. Whether or not they turn out to be edible remains to be seen 🤷
The extra Jazzy potato tubers that I planted in these two pots are sending up shoots already! I've since covered them with a nice thick layer of old compost.
The pansies, Matrix Mix Coastal Sunrise, are looking very pretty although they need a spot of deadheading methinks.
The rhubarb plants are all looking good. Despite its slow start, Timperly Early on the right has now overtaken Fulton's Strawberry Surprise in the middle! I pulled some stalks from Goliath along with a couple from the Timperly Early yesterday, which we are going to have in a crumble 😋
And here we are, back where we started looking out across the harbour. I heard Hamnavoe coming in so thought I'd try to take a photo of her ~ shame about the telegraph pole but I'm still pleased that I managed to get a half-decent picture 😊
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