Sky high!
My gardening spirits are sky high. Every day I find new roses flowering. The borders are looking magnificent. It's even becoming easier to ignore the annual grass weeds - from a distance!
I've done more edge clearing around the Driveway Lawn, dug some old Carexes out of the Hump Garden, sorted out some edge logs. I've planted two new tomatoes in the Hump Garden and spread horse manure (liberally laced with chopped up forget-me-nots) around them. All I have to do now is remember to feed them.
Compassion Rose
Biddi-bid warning...
Memo to self (another one, sorry about this) : do not wear your possum-merino socks in the garden during the forget-me-not biddi-bid season. The seeds are soooooo sticky...
My weekend kept being super busy and lots of fun. On Sunday afternoon I had to play the piano in a concert with my jazz choir, so no weeding was allowed (too rough on my hands and fingers). Just took garden photographs instead.
Flowery loveliness...
Discovered a lot of new flowery loveliness - the fragrant Philadelphus, the button hole rose Cecile Brunner, a late flowering deciduous Azalea Dorothy Corston. These little (and not so little) surprises can easily be overshadowed by the flowering of the show-off roses.
The joys of the garden...
I remind myself - one doesn't need to be working in the garden to appreciate its joys. Just being in it, walking past things, looking up, down, and around - just as important. And possibly more joyful than pulling out weeds, I reckon.
Monday 9th November
Yippee! My concert went really well. I love my jazz choir. And yeay for today's rainy drizzle, which is making a lot of the roses wet and droopy. But I am definitely not complaining.
The late season rhododendrons are enjoying it so very much. This is the first year for ages that their blooms haven't wilted in the sun.