What have you done in the garden today? Part 2

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A continuation of the last thread.

SAMSIES!

I love this thread. Some very knowledgeable gardeners on here which I appreciate. I especially liked the tip of just doing 15mins a day - it's enough to wizz round and tidy bits and bobs that annoy you when you look out the window each day.

I will go bankrupt buying all the plants though....

Just did a bit of watering and potted on some coriander. My basil is still impossibly small. I want to do a bit of the other crap border but I’m too hot.

Cut these roses from a plant a friend gave me- cheers me up every year. Sweet peas are just starting to be pickable. Planted a small mulberry bush that apparently can give fruit from year 1. Don’t even know if I like mulberries but am going to presume I do. It finally rained here which was very welcome.

Is that the patio sized mulberry? I was put off because reviews have been variable. A pure Black Mulberry has a fruit which explodes in your mouth with a juice the richness and intensity of a good dark red wine. Let us know how yours does.

Weeded the front of a small border at the bottom of the garden and now need to think what I can put in there that will tolerate shade. It’s north east facing and damp and there are a few trees in there so it gets no sun. The daffs always do well but they are long gone so I want something that looks like the shape of nepeta or salvia but which will tolerate shade and preferably white. Have a few heucheras in but they are so dark they are invisible. Dog likes to munch hostas so they are out.

Weeded & planted out lots of bulbs I've been meaning to do for months (irises, crocosima, & nerine). Pruned some sage, rosemary & lavender. Deadhead the muscari.

It’s sweltering here, horribly humid and the brief shower we had late this morning did nothing but ramp up the humidity 🥵
I will go out and water everything while hoping for steady rain but I doubt we’ll get any. It splits and goes either side of the ridge of hills.
I did pot up some funny little seedlings growing on the edge of the lawn, I don’t know it they’re weeds or not!
Any ideas what these might be please?
Thank you!

Actually I have a funny feeling more likely to be weeds than not! ? Silver weed?

Or verbena bonariasis 🤷🏼‍♀️

@MereDintofPandiculation
Yes it’s the container one- matsunaga? Maybe I should get a normal one as well for future taste explosion. I feel like I will be missing out otherwise!

The rain didn’t come, so I spent an hour and a half watering. Getting up close to the borders made me realise that although they look good from a distance, up close there are so many weeds. And my perennials are growing quickly.

I’ve bought a lot of half hoop plant supports from Harrods for delivery on Tuesday to regain some control.

But won't that just make the weed look even more obvious?

Enchanters Nightshade

Don't think it's silverweed

That looks very pretty @MereDintofPandiculation - will it spread? I chucked some supposedly native woodland seed balls at the back where I can’t reach but all I can see so far is creeping buttercup and a couple of Welsh poppies.

Planted a Madame Alfred Carriere climbing rose at the base of one of our garden trees, creamy white blooms and meant to be quite fragrant so looking forward to seeing it grow. We also had a good tidy up of a pink climbing roses that had started trailing over the drive - put some supports on the wall so it can climb there a bit more happily.
also planted out some toadflax and dwarf sunflowers that have been waiting to be planted for weeks after being grown from seed. Watered the greenhouse and all the pots and weeded the drive. Painted a trellis which is for honeysuckle to climb up outside the French doors to the garden. We moved a massive pot to plant it in, but don’t have the honeysuckle yet.
Then mowed the lawn. I feel a bit broken this evening 😆

Hmmm, maybe on reading the RHS website, I don’t want enchanters nightshade perhaps.

My dicentra alba does OK in the shade, and is white (obviously!)

And where are you in the country SpringOn? I'd have keeled over trying just one of those jobs today, the heat was that fierce.

Really need to feed all the plants too, but it's just too hot to lug a watering can round our very slopey garden/borders.

Yes, it was only a semi-serious suggestion. It will spread everywhere. But it tolerates very low light levels.

We had a huge thunderstorm and finally had some decent rain this evening! So the only thing I've done today is I dashed out in the rain like a madwoman to fill the watering can and some bottles with what was left in the water butt to give it more space to be topped up with today's downpour. I think a second water butt would be an easier option but I'm going to leave that for an autumn or winter job!

@MereDintofPandiculation I’m hoping that having the perennials properly supported will shame me into tackling what will then be very obvious weeds and an abundance of poppies (which will be welcome if the turn out to be purple but not if they’re orange)

@NorthernChinchilla we’re far South West. Was 17 degrees and mostly cloudy here yesterday. I did go for a dip in the sea after it was all done to cool off!

Did you mean 17, or 27?

27 here (Yorkshire). I’m very happy about my shaded garden.

It was much cooler here yesterday (S Wales) but still about 20 and it looks like we had proper rain last night, first since May 9th. Hurray.

Enchanters nightshade is such a spoonily lovely name but it's an absolute pest.
@BestIsWest A damp shady border is my idea of heaven.