Reconnecting...
Good morning to my garden, and my inner gardener. Time you were both reconnected. It's a coolish but sunny day, no wind, and I have no commitments. Yeay! It's merely a question of what to do first. What, indeed? When in doubt, write a list.
- Plant new roses and dahlias by pergola.
- Clean up flax leaf piles from back lawn.
- Dead-head more dahlias and roses.
Two more general ideas. One : fairly functional. How about a couple of hours bonfiring dry gum tree mess? There's no fire ban yet. And no wind.
Pretty Dahlia
Free choice...
Two : free choice. How about putting all tools in the wheelbarrow and finding a completely random area? Then sitting down to weed and trim, etc.
Five hours later...
Ha! I've done everything I listed. Have made great progress. Filled the bin with wet flax leaves, and cut down some more flax stalks that were causing their parent plants to split apart. Then I sat down and weeded the edge of the Stables garden. All these little details matter.
After coming inside for an iced water I collected two more loads of dry grasses for the bonfire. Grabbed more armfuls of gum tree bark from under the hedge by Duck Lawn.
Cream Delight Phormium
A huge year for the flaxes...
Trimmed yet more Phormium flower stalks. All my flaxes have had a huge flowering year (with lots and lots of heavy flowering stems), and several more do need a serious trim. Aargh!
Canoe adventures...
After a light evening meal I continued my journey across Quebec and Labrador with a groovy canoeist and film maker. It's such an amazing adventure, solo for 42 days - a privilege to be sharing it with him. I'm just a gardener, have never ever been in a canoe let alone travelled across lakes and rivers in one.
The Labrador landscapes are absolutely mesmerising. The creatures he sees (black bears, caribou, lynx, moose) are amazing. But I simply can't begin to imagine what the bugs would be like. In my own garden just one lone mosquito (unusual not to get a few more) has found me so far this summer.