Scrappy and moochy...
White Lavender
Some days in the garden are purposeful and focussed. Some days are just scrappy and moochy. Such is today. Mainly because Minimus my cottage cat is not doing so well.
Friday 24th October
I got caught up repotting things - first, winter flowering polyanthus to stash in a shady place by the glass-house. Then a couple of Lavender plants. Why this should have taken me so long I don't know.
Then I saw that the water race flow had been turned off (floods upriver), so I grabbed the bread-knife, put on my gumboots, and went in to clean up the banks. I did a very short stretch. Re-laid the stone edges, cleaned up some Phormiums.
Trickling noises...
Heard loud trickling noises. Aargh! Looked down - the water was flowing again, rising quickly. By the time I'd sloshed back to the bridge (where I get in and out) it was over half way up my gumboots. Quite a trap for an unwary gardening, hee hee.
Have finished watering the rhododendrons, and have moved on to the fence-line roses in the Allotment Garden. So far have drenched Buff Beauty, am working my way along the rugosa hedge roses. Non-Gardening Partner is putting the big irrigation pump back in the pond later - yeay!
Saturday 25th October
More scrappy gardening today. I continued watering the rugosa hedge, ducking and diving into the garden to pull out annual grasses. Cleared clumps of grasses out of another wee garden on the boundary, saw that my dog-fence (to stop Pebbles going next-door) had come apart. Oops. Nothing lasts for ever, right?
Sunday 26th October
No, nothing lasts for ever. Minimus my little grey cottage cat is fading away. I've gone back to watering the Driveway Garden, doing lots of sit-down weeding, removing the driest of the forget-me-nots. Will take Min to the vet first thing Tuesday (Monday is a public holiday).
Monday 27th October
This morning we dismantled big brown dog Escher's kennel (which has been here for twelve years) and carted it over to his house.
Escher's Kennel is Gone
Then I did lots of planting - red potatoes and tomatoes in the veggie bed, all the spotty Ligularias in the Pond Paddock Garden by the path. Worked until the first spots of relieving rain arrived. Later at night had to retreat again to the house when a rip-roaring southerly storm struck, with driving rain and furious winds. A very windy month!