I love Thursdays!
Memorial Statue for Minimus
Yeay! It's Thursday. I loooove Thursdays! Why? Because usually, most weeks, unless something unexpected pops up, I can stay home all day and enjoy my garden. But I use the word 'enjoy' with some caution.
Deep garden-diving...
Have already done some deep garden-diving this morning, snug under the bedcovers, plotting and planning and analysing everything. Firstly, where should I plant my new Phormiums? I am going to do a Phormium swap, where mature ones in pots are replanted in the garden. The new ones from the nursery then take their place.
Secondly, how much effort should I put into removing the remaining periwinkle from the Shrubbery? Do I try to contain it? Ha ha. Periwinkle does not take to being 'contained'. But I can try.
I also need to organise the dahlias that need shifting, and keep on clearing things - for example the back of the pond, the dry rubbish piles on the fence line - and get everything burnt on the bonfire. Before the imminent arrival of the big hedge trimmer, which will produce loads of Leyland Cypress mess to process (at least a month's work). Aargh! Oh joy! So what am I going to do first this morning? Have another cup of tea and read my book, that's what!
Three hours later...
No wonder I never finish anything! It's taken me three hours to dig a huge planting hole in the Apple Tree Border, coax a large pot bound Phormium Tricolor out of its pot, and plant it. But I also shifted a Nicky Crisp Camellia, spread compost around, and planted daffodils by the stone edge. Also potted up my new daffodil bulbs for the cottage, and planted my new Phormiums (Rainbow Chief and Rainbow Queen) in pots.
Phormium Tricolor in the Apple-Tree Border
After coffee, lunch, and a bit of a book read (simple rewards) I might sort out more periwinkle. Not going to start the bonfire until much later this afternoon. Something to look forward to - not!
Red Azalea
Three more hours later...
What a great gardening day I've had! Started the afternoon session clearing weedy grasses from the water's edge of the pond path. Raked out debris (leaves and long strips of gum bark), left the piles on the path to dry out.
Sliced down a green Phormium in the side Pond Paddock Garden, also dug out some Lamium that was regrowing. Kinder on my hands than Periwinkle, which I decided to ignore for today. Took loads to the bonfire and burnt everything. Six hours of plodding, sitting down, standing back up, more plodding...
Arctic river travel...
Now I'm going Youtube packrafting on an Arctic river (the Brock). Please note : I have never, ever packrafted in the real world. Non-Gardening Partner thinks I'm totally silly, but he enjoys looking at the maps. I find the barren landscape and the river canyons amazing.