BANK HOLIDAY SO GARDENING

Since the whole worlds in some sort of lockdown one way or the other, it makes perfect sense to get outside into the garden while the weather is dry.

The path at the top of the garden always gets covered in earth, leaves and weeds over the winter months, this is a photo be fore I started to sweep it.

 After it's been swept. It's always so satisfying seeing the path being revealed from under all the winter debris.

In amongst some shrubs is a birds nest.

 We had three, now two cats, so it seems the birds despite this still make their nests where they could be discovered by a passing cat!  But hopefully the birds that used this one survived.

 Plenty of green in the shrub border.

I weeded the border as I passed with the broom.

This little blue perennial which was planted in places along the raised border is now moving back into the border, so will need to be divided and placed elsewhere.

This cheeky Robin was watching me sweep , so he could drop down and pick it over for any bugs or worms that may have been distrubed.

 We had been bad and allowed crouch grass and weds to fill the rockery over last year and the winter! Before..

 So I spent some time clearing out the worse of the grasses and weeds. Some actual palnts, a couple of Geraniums and a Grannys bonnet had seeded themselves also in the bed, so I have left these until later when I will transplant them into pots or elsewhere in the garden.

before

 after... I will need to buy a few alpines to replace those lost under the weeds or which grew to big for the space.

The Wisteria we bought in the sales last year is starting to flower and looks to be a beautiful purple.

The pots of tulips are filling with lovely colour.

 Very pleased with how these are working out.

This one that is a mixture of spring bulbs looks particularly lovely.

A corner of the patio.

 lots of lovely colour.

Out the front the trough is now filled with colour which looks lovely as you approach the house.

The alpine trough are also doing well.

The old sink.

The stone trough.

This little pink bucket of pring bulbs by daighter gave me two years ago, is still flowering each year dispite being just left by the front door. I will have to replace the soil this year and maybe add a couple more bulbs in the autumn ready for next year.

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