Continuing...
Stella D Oro Daylily
So what am I going to do today? Continue what I was doing yesterday. Gardeners are always continuing something or other.
Back to the Hen House...
So I'm going back over by the Hen House to work in the shade. My goodness the oak trees there have grown huge! There's a huge amount of gum tree debris on the ground, too - leaves, small branches, huge strips of bark.
My gardening plan today involves some simple questions. Is that path supposed to be there? If the answer is no, then block it off. If yes, then clean it up. Is that Phormium too big? Too flat? Too old? Does it have too much dead stuff? If any of these answers are yes, then pull the flax to pieces and replant the smaller fans.
Three and a half hours later...
Have worked my way very slowly around Duck Lawn. Cleared one path (weed-killed the carpet of little Carex grasses growing happily on it).
Darmera and Ligularias
Sliced one green species Phormium down to resprout. Then came to two sprawlers (one the pretty Cream Delight). Pulled both of them to pieces (their roots were hardly in the ground), sorted out what to keep and what to throw under the hedge. Popped the divisions in buckets of water.
Agnes :- Agnes has her own rose page. But it's time to buy in some new stock, I reckon.
Then I cut the dead canes off the tall Agnes rugosa rose. This one used to be very flowery, not so any more. Agnes is quite short-lived in my garden - maybe I plant her in the wrong places? She is one of the earliest roses to flower, in mid-spring.
Now I'm going back outside to dump my wheelbarrow load on the bonfire. If it reignites, that will be a sign to rake up two or three more loads. I also have a small bit of chain-sawing for Non-Gardening Partner. He is going to complain (I know he will). I am just trying to keep the bigger trees 'under control'.
Even later...
He did it! And he even dragged the branches over to the bonfire. Meanwhile, just for my records, I've found two more steak knives under the hedge. That makes five gardening hand tools recovered from the Henhouse Garden in the last two days. What a hoot!