What have you done in the garden today? Part 6

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What have you done in the garden today? What went well? What surprises have you had? What could have gone better?

Repotted two palms, they had been in the sunroom, but the leaves scorched. Now they’ve spent the afternoon in a bucket of water, have been repotted and are in a cool corner of the garden. Too hot for palms!!

Nothing, just enjoyed sitting in it today 😀

We’ve just had torrential rain, thunder and lightning. Hooray!

Snap! Planted 4 Verbena Bs today. First time growing. Also planted some Salvia Nachtvlinder and am holding off planting out my 14 potted up dahlias.
Hope you get it all done before you go!

Just moved around some plant pots today to see what I've got space for.

Going to the garden centre tomorrow for my flirty thirtieth. I really want to treat myself to a showstopper of a plant, that is perennial, has wonderful long season blooms and just catches the eye. I'm not sure what plant that will be just yet, but I'll know it when I see it.

Really want to get a new trellis for the grape plant that has been swallowed by the dogwood. Forgot I had it until I saw it's little tendrils poking out of the top. I keep trying to cut the dogwood back but it's such a fast grower. Makes wonderful canes for peony baskets though.

Spent a small fortune on climbers on Crocus because they have a sale on. Wasn't even intending to buy any climbers, I just fancied growing some lemongrass 💁.

I'll be working on planning the rearrangements in Gardenbox 3d, other landcape design software looked too complicated. Ordered some nice looking pebbles, this is the first actual step.

Snapped my favourite trowel today!

Bit disappointed with Aberglasney today. The new head gardener is intending to reinstate a lot of the original planting from what I understand and as such a lot of the planting in the walled garden has been taken up. That said, I know from previous visits that there’s always a gap this time of year after the tulips have finished and before the summer gets going. Will go back around the end of June. The wisteria is coming on a treat though.

Had a lovely day out at the garden centre. Picked up a new Salvia, some enorma runner beans and a Thai basil. Promptly got them all into the ground and went and bought my timber for my wisteria umbrella.

Also got some Icelandic poppy seeds. I do this every year but I can never get them to germinate. If anyone has any tips I would be most appreciative.

For poppies; pop them in the fridge for 2 weeks before you sow them, sow into freshly disturbed soil, and water in with a high nitrogen liquid feed. They don't all germinate at once, so weed the bed this autumn and you might get another flush.

Tried to reinvigorate a little olive tree, repotted it after leaving the roots in water to soak and put in a bigger pot with fresh compost and feed, it’s been very hot in central Scotland so I’ve moved it into an area where it will get some shade to see if this helps,
im using pallets to create a raised veg area (I’m disabled) and started to paint them. It’s taken me three days to paint two of them.
my son rocked up with his paint sprayer and did one in ten minutes lol

My covering all the pots in my greenhouse with zip lock bags has worked and pretty much everything has germinated.
Sadly, I saw a little bee on a sunflower leaf last night so I put the plant outside. Hoped it was just sleeping, but sadly dead. I hate it when bees get trapped in there and I do try to help them out.
I think I may have made a mistake in buying some globe artichoke seedlings from the market. They need a LOT of space from what I have read, which I don't have. Oops!

I think I might buy a paint sprayer. I’ve just spent two hours painting the arbour (fiddly) and there’s still the shed and decking to do. It’s hot out there today.

I can't recommend them enough. I got one off tiktok and it's been amazing. A worthy investment for wood at the very least as it'll need recoating every few years.

They do well in pots if you've got space for some 40cm pots.

I once planted some globe artichokes that ended up being giant silver cardoons not globe artichokes at all and I didn't realise how tree like they became at the base and roots. Planted them right next to our conservatory foundations. Beautiful plant but digging it up was a gardening nightmare.

Globe artichokes are much smaller, usually less than 1m tall with a smaller rooting system.

If you do put them in the ground don't plant them near the foundations of any property.

@Jimmyneutronsforehead I read they can be planted in 3ft wide pots which are also another foot deeper, not 40cm pots. I'll try them on the biggest pots I have and see how they do. I didn't realise they can come up year after year. I'm used to my veg being a one year only thing

They come up year after year, and they also produce offsets which you can split and grow on.

My mum just bought some of those £5 40cm wide pots from b&m a few years ago and hers are doing fab in them. I think they're probably just over 1ft deep.

I've got some slightly smaller pots that I'm trying some in this year but I will up pot them if I need to.

The 3ft recommendation is probably also because they put out pups plants occasionally too so they need space but in autumn and spring you can transplant them.

I’ve just planted some more courgette seeds - my last few - because all my courgette plant stalks bar one have been eaten by snails. Sigh.

Too hot to do much but Asda had bedding plants at 3 trays for £5 and couldn't resist. Bog standard lobelia,begonia and petunia but very healthy plants so popped them in a few empty pots.

Planted some cosmos and zinnia seeds in a raised bed with a bare patch. Some sunflowers in small pots that, if they germinate, I'll find somewhere for.

I've not had much of a problem so far with slugs and snails, but we've not had a drop of rain for weeks. Not like last year <shudder>.

Except great pond snails in a half barrel I set up late last year. There must have been some eggs on a plant I bought. They're already huge and they've laid lots of eggs. I put a flat stone in so there'd be a shallow space for birds to drink and bathe. I've started putting bits of celery on it to tempt the snails out for the birds to take.

I’ve been nurturing what I thought was an oriental poppy, only yo find it’s a lettuce!

Finished painting the pallets to put large pots in aTo use as a veg patch, my partner has an allotment and my garden seems to have gained his overflow veg, I may need to sell looks on eBay 🙄

Planted up one massive tub of runner beans, another tub will be planted with dwarf beans. Moved several pots around, put one out the front of the house, really hoping the foxes don't mess around with it.

I bought a David Austin Charles Darwin rose on Thursday, it's in memory of my aunt who died recently, it has loads of buds on it so it will go into the pretty tub I've had waiting, hopefully I can get that done in the next couple of days.

Did some weeding, watered the pots and repeatedly filled the bird baths as the magpies were throwing the water everywhere. Bless them ... 🙄