Garden job of the day

I enjoyed reading that Daveymad :) I'm glad you enjoyed your day in the garden ...
Your flower bed looks lovely. It should give a good show next year after being mulched :)

Like Hywel, I also enjoyed reading your blog, Davey! You could have left the dahlias in the ground over winter as in Devon the frosts are not very strong & you don't get as much severe winter cold as further north.

Where I live in East Anglia, just 20 miles from Cambridge, we get some heavy frosts at times during the winter but even so the Dahlias I planted in the gardens of the church I attend have withstood all the very cold winters for the last 6 or 7 years since I planted them. They don't get any mulch of any sort of protection & yet every year they come up without fail & flower all the way till December!

This year I put in some more I grew from seed that came with the Gardeners World mag earlier this year. They hardly flowered but I hope they too survive the winter & flower more abundantly next summer.

Thanks for your comments 👍

Job well done, Davey! The bed area looks really nice and tidy too. Like the background colour of the wall, nice choice.
I bet you feel quite chuffed with all your hard work! You should be too ;)

Hi Kate, yes I was pleased getting some work done, made a lovely change from looking out the window at the perpetual rainfall, I think I got that paint about three years ago in a sale and came across it again whilst looking for something, and thought I know where this is going 😁😁

Looks good Davey, makes you feel so much better when the suns out and you have got so much done, it’s lovely to sit down at the end of a hectic day and feel proud of what’s been achieved.

Hi Julien, yes very true it beats fence watching due to this dirty windy weather anyday.

We had really nasty winds and rain today.the very last thing we need right now as the ground has been sodden since August! I don't have fence to watch any more as our current home has a hedge, but we are very exposed here, so gales always make me wince. We went into town and visited the V&A ..it was ok...robot exhibition..not really my thing. I’d rather be weeding and moving plants about in winter sun! Your border looks really smart. I too think you’d get away with leaving your Dahlias in the ground. I love your metal bird sculpture. I recently saw a gorgeous Copper Eagle in a Gallery. It was stunning...and over a thousand pounds. Ah.......if only!

Hi Davey, I have looked at your website and all your fantastic photographs! You have a whole collection of amazing pics, very skilled! Beautiful photography and interesting blogs/history.
Hope your wife is keeping well, Davey.

Hi Kate thanks for the lovely comments, doing the website along with the garden and photographs have kept the sanity levels down over the last few years, my wife, Kim is ok but the chemo can be a bit gruelling for her sometimes, but it is keeping her condition stable which is what we want.