garden
I am keep track of each of my edge on a monthly basis . My idea was to see what changed from season to season , and eventually to equate from yr . Not a great deal has changed since last time , but lets take a quick spin .
Rear Garden
Border 1 – of late mulched with well rotted horse manure , this margin is count bare . Much of the planting is dormant for the wintertime , but I have also removed the unlovely genus Carex from the odd side .
Border 2 – the retentive gay border . Or on the Clarence Day I consider the photos , the foresightful blue edge . Also recently mulched , this borderline is waiting for unexampled planting as soon as it ’s ready . I have plant a Aquilegia canadensis at the far right ending , just behind the genus Cornus ‘ midwinter firing ’ . I am hoping it will treat some of that fencing . This time next calendar month I should be able to prune back the dozen or so clematis . I am hoping for better things from this mob next twelvemonth . There is some sign of bulb activity , but I doubt we ’ll see flowers till February fourth dimension . The mess of carnation flux with weedy grass has survive , I just dig the lot up and binned it . I have plenteousness of things that can employ the space better .
Border 3 – bare , wait for the spring .
Border 4 – all cut back and waiting for winter to be over . I am increasingly of the aspect that the lavender on the left hand of this perimeter is no longer lovely and must go . No way in this garden for laggards or dullards .
Border 5 – aside from a good wooden-headed mulch , nothing has change here except for full loss of leaf on any deciduous shrubs . Much pruning to be done here in two or three calendar month . The abelia , always a snatch perverse , is leaning ever more drunkenly – an after consequence of a cm or two of Charles Percy Snow we had a few weeks back .
Border 6 – the weeny edge , it remain unextended , still a job for another calendar month . Mulch away , the only changes are the genus Tiarella and the gaura finally giving up the spectre and acknowledge it might be wintertime . I need to straighten out them up a snatch I intend . The penstemon still looks curiously perky , very profuse . I must rule something to grow up that scrap of trellis . It ’s only four or five feet high . There is a clematis planted at the base , but it has always struggled in that situation , I do not reserve out much promise for it next twelvemonth .
Front Garden
I ’ll do the lot in one hit rather than border by border . I did n’t quite have enough rotted manure to mulch it all , but several bags have been go around on it . I ’m not too worried , the stain was improved a just bit in the heart of this twelvemonth when I dug the novel borders . I ’ll add more mulch as and when I get hold of it . In general , matter are in delay style . There are a plenty of perennials in here which did not do much last twelvemonth , newfangled plants that they were , which are healthily biding there clock time , lots of dainty greenery and fresh outgrowth beginning to come out . There are also good signs of medulla oblongata emerging , found a couple of months ago . Border 10 , my encroachment into the brink on the paving side of my front wall , is looking pretty bedraggled . Last month I said I have pansies and/or violas to set out – I still do , have n’t got around to it yet .
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I feel like the garden is pretty well prepared for the winter .
I ’ll be back next month for another Border Patrol .
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