Re: What have you done in the flower garden today?

by polgara on 27th March 2010, 4:23 pm

Today I planted my sprouting sweet peas in handmade newspaper tubes. OH has

by Compostwoman on 27th March 2010, 5:28 pm

I used to have a load of naturalised geraniums of all different sorts in my flower beds..I don't do annuals so all the beds have perennials in, and geraniums are my favourite...

well one hen likes them...and has taught the rest to like them as well.....grrrrrr

by Sparhawk on 27th March 2010, 5:30 pm

Have just come in from garden, did battle with the mad rose that climbs along a bit of our fence & I think I actually won this year, trimmed loads of with very few scratches...

Managed to take about a foot in length from the hedge too & put in a couple of hawthorn plants so that the hedge becomes a little more wildlife friendly...

by Guest on 27th March 2010, 9:48 pm

Went to a garden centre...does that count!??
This is the one time I venture in as you can get the small starting out pots at a reasonable price. Managed to keep to 10...but then saw two clematus that I realy wanted...oh dear budget blown!

Looking forward to planting them...

by Dandelion on 27th March 2010, 10:29 pm

I went the garden centre too - something I noticed was that they are selling compressed peat pots for starting plants off in without the word 'peat' on them. Very clever, and quite deceptive - this seems typical of the world of spin we live in. (It's probably OK because the packaging didn't claim that they were peat free - it just didn't give any information at all about what they were made of.

by Compostwoman on 27th March 2010, 10:50 pm

which garden centre did you go to Dandelion?

I planted some flowers for drying...helichrism, statice, stuff like that today..

by AngelinaJellyBeana on 28th March 2010, 8:11 am

I've been battling with a hooooge pampas grass. Ideally I'd like to get rid of it but it's so big. I've been raking out all the dead stuff and will get the strimmer to it. Someone I used to know used to stuff the middle with newspaper and set it alight :affraid: but this is a bit too close to the fence and house, so I won't be doing that.

Any ideas anyone???

by Dandelion on 28th March 2010, 5:55 pm

CW - I went to St Peter's in Worcester which is a good afternoon out (the cakes in the cafe are exceptionally squidgy!). The peat pots were Jiffy ones, so presumably sold everywhere - when I was a young stripling and worked in a Gloucestershire garden centre, they were labelled 'peat pots', but this seems to have been conventiently omitted now!
Have cleared a bit of the chicken devastation - i'm thinking flag irises in beautiful plums purples and browns, with more spring bulbs planted around them in the autumn.