What have you done in the garden today? Part 3

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The old thread was filling up so I've created a new one!

Link to old thread: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/gardening/4823202-what-have-you-done-in-the-garden-today-part-2?reply=128367673

Probably going to be a greenhouse day later in the afternoon. Yellow warning for rain 😔

my box of snowdrops in the green arrived, so I need to get them in the ground in the next few days - it's trying to find a dry spell as I'm not standing out there in the rain!

the crocus look beautiful, and seem quite unperturbed by being soaked constantly. Daffs are ridiculously early, they'll definitely all be in bloom by St David's Day.

The iris, crocus and daffs are all looking lovely and very springlike. I still get excited seeing them.

There's lots of rain forecast today (for a change) so good luck to all those venturing into the garden.

Argh. The sun’s just gone behind a cloud and it certainly feels as if rain is imminent. I might go to inspect the cold frame and chuck out anything that hasn’t survived the winter.

We have a yellow warning for more rain from 3pm. Of course it’s already raining. I’m so fed up of it. The rivers looked close to overflowing yesterday (we’re in Wales so it’s always wet but this is ridiculous). I think we’ve had frost twice this winter.

Whereas it's warm and bright here.
We've spent the morning tidying up the garden and now have washing on the line.
Pics of two Hazel Hurdles we finished off today. They keep leaves and rubbish off the front beds and used up the branches we coppiced from our tree.

Oh I love those hurdles. Beautiful.

Those hurdles are lovely!

Those hurdles are gorgeous!

I've just planted the four little juniper trees that I bought from the Woodland Trust this week. They're very cute. I hope they don't take too long to grow!

Just waiting for a giant pot to arrive so I can plant my peach tree. The heavens are due to open sometime this afternoon so I hope the pot comes soon!

Oh blast, just got back from a walk, deciding what to do first in the garden and it's started raining hard and forecast is for it to continue, I'm sure it was saying it'd be dry all day when I looked at it yesterday. I really need to put in more vine eyes, the fence with the chopped back Ivy has the remains of a trellis on it but very broken and brittle (must be about 25 years old now). I need the wires in front of the Ivy stems to train roses and jasmine on. I suppose I could go out and buy the vine eyes at least.

Vine eyes acquired, also some seeds and a Nellie Moser. I've deposited her in the pot she'll be planted in, hopefully tomorrow.

Nelly Moser is a wonder. Other clematis here have come and gone, but the inexhaustible Nelly is still with me.

My daffodils are coming out. So I got my purple violas today to go around them. Should look pretty.

Nelly Moser is so pretty!

We put some wire in between the slats on two trellis panels to help the clematis (first spring in this garden), Finished tidying the back garden ready for the growing season, planted a clematis and a hellebore. Took out two shrubs I wasn't sure about but were definitely dead on closer inspection.

Moved a few pots around and did some planning.

Front garden tidy up tomorrow weather permitting and hopefully a trip to the nursery.

I'd hoped to get some bits done today but currently lying in bed listening to the rain hammer down outside.

Maybe not. It'll be far too boggy I think.

Sounds lovely, do you have a wisteria walk, mine leads down to a magnificent magnolia underplanted with native primroses , they all miraculously flower at exactly the same time ……….

No, I don’t. There’s a pergola on my Tuscan terrace but I’m rather vague about what’s growing on it!

The route down my garden goes across a tiny lawn which extends under a medlar and mulberry. This last bit used to get seriously boggy in winter, so I made a narrow brick path in the boggiest bit with the idea that I could let the grass grow over it. It’s solved the mud problem. In winter it’s a narrow path of bricks emerging from the grass, in summer it’s covered by grass. Wouldn’t work on a formal lawn but my garden is informal to official jungle.

My primroses are opening now. I’m not sure of their timing compared with the wisterias and magnolia.

One of my visions was of neatly pleached apple trees over a pergola, underplanted with daffodils. Worked brilliantly for the first two years with daffodils and apples in flower together. But now they have both decided to do their own thing, and instead of the neatly pruned trees I have a thicket with a tunnel through Still love it, especially when the long tailed tits are going through and you can stand in the tunnel surrounded on all sides by tits chirruping together.

I expect it’s a grape vine, but dessert grapes rather than wine grapes. If I had a Tuscan terrace I would have grapes, and huge earthenware pots filled with herbs and figs, not olives though, they are in the olive grove near the sweet chestnuts…….

These imaginary gardens are wonderful things. 🙂

Ah yes! So it is. A grapevine with far nicer grapes than my actual one. And certainly lots of huge, weathered terracotta pots.

The nut walk in Sissinghurst always sounds wonderful, but I have never seen it in Spring. I think your apple tree pergola sounds similar.

Sadly my wisteria/ magnolia dream is in my head, but in my head it works perfectly.

Still love it, especially when the long tailed tits are going through and you can stand in the tunnel surrounded on all sides by tits chirruping together.

what a wonderful picture you paint there @MereDintofPandiculation !

hasn't it been a variable spell of weather patterns lately. Some very warm sunshine yesterday interspersed with quite torrential rain. noticed some pollinators were having a field-day feasting on the crocus stamens on our lawn. The cacophony of sound on days like this is incredible.

have made good progress with the pots this past week. I managed to salvage some winter chard (which is now Spring Chard and decanted them into two clean troughs, and they've responded already by growing new leaves, now that the warmth in the greenhouse is up to around 25deg. Another couple of pots have wallflower in, might replant them along the border, and another couple of tubs of Spring bulbs I planted several weeks ago are looking more vigorous than expected as I thought I was too late.

will have to get the box of snowdrops 'in the green' planted today.

I sowed a pack of verbena bonensiaris and the first tray full of cosmos - hoping for better luck with them this year, last year they were weirdly uncooperative. Got most of the vine eyes screwed in but DD phoned just before 5 so I didn't finish the job. I could do with some more, I bought all the local nursery had on display. Not sure I've enough wire of the right gauge either.

I can never get verbena bonaneriensis to germinate - is there a trick? I use both commercial and self-collected seed.

So late too it, but I am also admiring the hazel hurdles, @InMySpareTime.

I would love a Tuscan terrace, or the Sissinghurst nut walk, but I know my limits!

Yesterday I got out in the garden for a stolen hour, and very quickly planted out a lovely dark hellebore and some tete a tete for the aforementioned 'cheap and cheerful' effect. All of my pears are suddenly in bud, which is lovely. The ground is still a total quagmire and I am slightly stunned to see alliums and tulips have actually put up leaves, rather than rotting. On the less good side, the yew hedging I put in bare root last year is quietly turning up its toes one plant at at time. It is just too wet.