Variety...
Variety is the spice of autumn gardening life, yes? Three hot days, and now it's gone back down to nine degrees Celsius and is raining. Have been for a wet walk with the dogs, am back inside contemplating my day. What do I feel like doing? Gardening! Wrong answer.
Winnie on a Garden Path
Two more dog-walks later, and I am getting a bit bored with the inside of my house. But I don't feel like getting wet and muddy. I'm sensing autumn is here. Leaves are slowly changing colour.
Tuesday 10th March
So today I gardened for four hours. I took a load of stuff to the bonfire, scooped up some extra Phormium leaves, then weeded and trimmed around more of the Stumpy Garden, then gathered up another load for the fire. This went on for over three hours, until I reached the striped Phormium next to rhododendron Alice. Oops. It was not in a good state (the phormium, that is) - falling apart, coming to pieces, past it's use-by date, all of the above.
Phormium Tricolor :- Cream Delight is apparently a sport of Tricolor.
So I made a start dismantling it. This flax is either Tricolor or Cream Delight, not totally sure which (they are related). Have several small divisions which I can regrow. Haven't quite finished - need the axe. That's for tomorrow.
Next day, only had one hour, finished the flax demolition. It is Tricolor, with the thinnest red stripes on the edges of its leaves. Left a clump of the strongest roots in place to resprout.