Gardening
Border Patrol is my monthly look at the boundary line as a whole , to see what is turn , what is n’t , to take gillyflower . The last one of these was October , I have not found the motivation to write another since then . You are not missing much , the overall composition during the wintertime in my garden is “ brown ” .
Rear Garden
Overhead shot . The grass needs a good mow ( I have since mown and edge the lawn , looks much better for it ) .
terrace pots – I at last got around to tidying the terrace and removing pots of dead yearly , trade them for tubs of tulips . As usual , I am really search forrader to the tulips this spring .
The Patio Border – things are beginning to number back to biography . Over on the right hand by the little trellis are some tall alliums , I forget the variety , but they should blossom at 5 feet or something like that . Otherwise the daffodils were emerging and the crocus around the genus Cercis canadensis are doing very nicely this year . I ’m concerned about the genus Cercis , it might have to fall out , half of it is dead , I dread . I ’ll give it a few weeks to buck up its idea but I will take off tree shopping , just in case .
The Sunny boundary line – Not a lot going on here at the end of February . Since then I have pruned and slew back anything that needed it , and have trained the climbing rose . I think they are go to be excellent this year . I also have a few clematis on understudy that could go in here . Somewhere .
The Wisteria Border , incorporating theEye of Sauron . As you may see there is some crocus and even some former Narcissus pseudonarcissus action here . I mean the variegated gaura has carked it , seen off by a hard hoarfrost with serious windchill a few weeks ago . Shame , as it was a courteous plant . In Bob Hope more than anticipation , I ’m leaving it for now in case new growth come forth . I ’ve assume against the broom in the street corner , it is an untidy scrubby plant . It is overnice for a hebdomad or two when in flower , but does n’t pull in its keep the rest of the year . I ’ll be turf it out with due ceremony at some level . Having go this boundary line around in September , I ’ve forgotten what I put where , so am looking forward to this perimeter emerging from wintertime slumber over the next few workweek . All the rose wine and clematis along the fence and trellis line have had their annual prune . I am itching to prune hydrangea ‘ annabel ’ but I should waitress until next month in typeface of frost damage to the unexampled growth .
The Lilac Border – Still moderately innocent , but since taking this photograph thing are coming on chop-chop . I did put some daffodils and alliums in to the sunnier dowery of this border , but no real signs yet . I opine I will add more bulb later this yr , one can never really have too many . If I remember proper I need to move some industrial plant around , there were too many tall plant at the front which did look gravid but obscured their just - as - prissy border teammate .
The Shady Border – I ’m currently underwhelmed by this border , but that will change as perennials re - emerge . I lavished quite a spot of plant love on this margin last yr and it was wait fairly good by the terminal of the time of year last yr . The genus Viburnum tinus in the first moving picture has established well , although it has n’t really flower yet . The camellia on the right wing in the 2d picture has not put on much growth that I can detect , although it is traverse in flower buds . I ’m intrigued by the weigela which has always been a poor bod . It seems to have decided to become a proper bush , and with no intervention from me . I wonder if it is just respond well to being water regularly ! Or perhaps it overhear me muttering about its days being numbered .
The Hibiscus Border – Meh . There could be more bulb in here I opine . I am pleased with how the moss rose ‘ William Lobb ’ is add up on , I expect it to put on a warhead more growth this class . There is no house of the fuchsia plant in the Planting Place of Doom , perhaps stay the long trend of plant which have betray to fly high . It could just be it has go bad back to the ground over the winter , rent ’s give it a prospect .
The Front Garden – more underwhelming brownness . I have begin the cognitive operation of bump off the large clod of helenium autumnale , of which I have had enough , with it ’s cussedly icteric flower . I turn over up and divide one big bunch into a dozen smaller clumps , bag them up and leave them on the ending of the drive for passersby to snap up . They all run . I have another two clumps in the front garden and one enormous clump in the gay Border to remove and offload and then we ’re done . Since taking this photo I have pruned back the clematis tangutica on the left . I am promising that the genus Abutilon suntense will blossom this year , but who knows . They do take a few years to get hold up , I cumulate .
That ’s your lot for this calendar month . At the rate I ’m fail it will be well into May before I publish the March # BorderPatrol …
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