Making hay while the sun shines

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Seeing as today was bright and sunny I decided to spend most of it in the garden. There was a very sharp frost last night and Jim told me the temperatute at 4am was -4. He leaves for work at that time when he is on early shift, as for me that time of the morning doesn`t exist…lol!
I went outside at 11am and made a mental list of the jobs I was going to do. I calculated that the first few would take about an hour and then I would have lunch…wrong…it took two and a half so I didn`t eat until almost 2. I wonder where the times go when I`m in the garden, it certainly goes quicker than when I`m indoors.

Aren`t these a lovely colour?

These crocuses have really spread and look a treat when the sun is shining.

This basket was completely filled with winter pansies but they all died apart from the blue. I filled the gaps with primroses and heuchera `strawberry candy` in the middle`.

This is One-eared owl. I move him around the garden from time to time so he doesn`t get bored. I called him that because I dropped a trowel on his head leaving him with…you guessed it…lol!

What else can you call a duck but Quackers!

This is my greenhouse within the main greenhouse. I installed it so that I could put a small paraffin heater at the bottom just to keep the temperature up. It really works too. I hung a thermometre at the back and this morning before I put the heater on it was 4 degrees warmer.

I potted the begonias and put them in the heated propagator to give them a good start. Some of them had already started to shoot which at least shows they are healthy.

I wasn`t going to bother with sweetpeas this year but I got a free packet of seeds with Gardener`s World magazine and I didn`t want to waste them. I decided to use up all twenty though I have no idea where I`ll put them. I also sowed woodland primroses because I haven`t been able to find at work and I would love to have them growing under the magnolia along with the hardy cyclamen, snowdrops and all the other spring bulbs that are there somewhere.

In the late afternoon Jim and I put up some new trellis to support my climbing roses. Two of them have gone through the winter without any support but with March fast approaching I wanted them tied in a soon as possible, the strong cold winds would have been to much for them. There are two more trellises to go up to support a couple of clematis but that can wait for another day. I finshed off the afternoon by cleaning the benches in the greenhouse with Jeyes fluid and giving the floor a good sweep, it wasn`t perfect but it looked a lot better. We decided to call it a day and just as we were going inside it decided to rain…good timing or what.

It was nice after a satisfying days gardening to relax with a nice cup of coffee and a Fox`s chunky chocolate biscuit…my favourite biccie!

Sandra x

• 20 Feb, 2010
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