Gardening Page

It has been a while since I have put pen to paper, but having been awarded a few days off I have no excuse.

Weather continues to be strange with torrential rain following hard frosts and proceeded by mild, windy days when the temperature has reached 12 degrees C. Photos show some of the effects: the poodle looks worried.

In the first stint of home gardening for ages I took the long-arm pruners to the Freemontia that grows against the kitchen wall. It had split in the gales and I wanted to reduce the weight so that it can recover. It should be fine but I took the opportunity to give it a good haircut so flowering may be limited this (I mean next) year.

At the other end of the same wall we have a golden Hop that climbs the drainpipe, generally reaching bedroom window level each year. The smooth plastic pipe is not ideal but it does mean when I need to cut it to the ground at about this time it is fairly easy to pull off its support. That's another job done!

While I am off for a few days there are two jobs I really must do:

1.Order seeds for next season and

2. get my Chelsea pass application in. I gather I may be asked to help on a garden this year, so that will get me on site at the construction stage: always good fun. And I am promised a ticket for one of the later days, but my favourite day is the one reserved for the press.

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