Garden Diary 2016

Weekly tasks

• • Cleaning/checking/labelling potted plants and sorting the Sales table.

  • Hoeing/weeding/dead heading

  • Removal of prunings and rubbish

  • Photographing new plants and those in flower, recording on database and uploading to website gallery.

Long Border - Courtyard Side

• • Division of Hostas - potted up 130 plants to sell.

  • Removal of straying Darmera peltata, installing an edging of quarry tiles to deter encroachment.

  • Removal of unnamed Clematis and erection of new support for new plant

  • Revision of Berberidaceae bed, plants removed and potted up for sale, bed renovated. (Podophyllum species divided and returned) Selection of Epimediums planted.

  • Revision of Rosaceae bed, all plants removed, potted up for sale, bed renovated prior to planting up.

  • Excess Polygonaceae plants removed to make new space for Pulmonaria bed and planted up.

  • Total removal of ivy, clematis and jasmine behind ferns.

  • Trachelospermum jasminoides planted to train around doorway.

  • Nestbox removed, to be replaced.

  • Some plants removed from wall top where accessible.

Long Border - Sundial Side

• • Rose trained onto support.

  • Hawthorn hedge trimmed.

  • Weeds removed growing in wall base.

  • Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’ and Crocosmia removed.

  • New selection of Asteraceae plants (Daisy family) purchased and planted.

Middle Beds

• • Geranium and Phlox beds ongoing renewal

  • New lily and tulip bulbs planted.

  • Penstemons pruned in April, cuttings taken in late Autumn.

Display Bed

• • At least 25 new plants purchased and planted. New supports inserted. All plants established exceptionally well and flowered profusely in their first season.