Getting ready for April part 2

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The good news is Victoria’s wedding dress is hanging up in the spare bedroom and I have my dress too.

The garden continues to mock me and I have had to keep going back over the bits I’d already done as the mild weather has encouraged seed germination.

However I have made lots of progress in the front and side garden.

This is the narrow border down the garden side of the drive.

The border in front of the house was started and progress shown in the last blog, but it is now complete [for now].

I completed the border at the front of the garden next to the pavement. Lots of bulbs coming up and I have planted more tulips in both these borders to hopefully flower end of April. Lots of pots of bulbs to go in the large planters nearer the big day!

So what is left to do in the front garden?

Well atrocity corner is just that. Brambles and Vinca Jenny Pym has gone mad. Lots of natives [weeds], Nipplewort, Hedge woundwort and Garlic mustard that will need to be sympathetically treated as I need them for the moths and butterflies.

The other side of the drive is a weedy mess with lots of bulbs in it.

It used to have ‘hundreds’ of aquilegia but downy mildew put paid to them. This bed also has bindweed and creeping sowthistle [from next door] so I don’t enjoy weeding it. It will look better in a couple of weeks.

Between front and back garden there is a shortish [12ft ish]set of borders, one gets full sun in the summer and that has been done, whilst the shady side is waiting.

The only main bit in the back garden left to tackle is the conifer bed. Not touched it yet and it shouldn’t take too long, usually a full day if there are plenty of buttercups in there.

So far so good and it is now drizzling so nothing will get done tomorrow I suppose.

There will be a part 3 and probably a part 4 knowing how natives grow here. I hope to get it done by mid March to give my nails a chance to grow. Vanities of vanities!

• 22 Feb, 2023
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