Sitting down on the job!
I love doing sit-down gardening. My knees talk to me in the night if I've been kneeling. My hips join in if I've done too much ducking and diving. So sitting in the dirt suits me just fine. Quiet nights!
Today, after taking some photographs of February's flower colours, I did some great sit-down gardening. I weeded a small section of the Welcome Garden, cut more sprouting Agapanthus clumps into plantable pieces, and popped them in. Made a nice change from plodding around with the wheelbarrow.
Red Dahlias
Thursday 12th February
Today I have squillions of things that I want to do : write some music, play my piano, watch more of a Youtube canoe trip in Quebec, process more photographs, chop up and plant more Agapanthus - the list goes on.
Stake the dahlias!
But I've settled on a hot cup of coffee followed by some weeding and dahlia staking along the Hump Garden path. In here the dahlias stand upright for ages, and I kid myself that this is THE summer they will remain vertical. Not a chance. They don't.
Much later...
I've had THE best day. Two good gardening sessions, pulling out lots of old Lychnis plants and other assorted weeds, and hammering in wooden stakes for my dahlia staking (need some garden twine, can't find any). Had a break mid-day to go to a singing rehearsal.
The Back Lawn
Back home I weeded some more, then cleaned up all my mess. Lopped branches off a sprawling Camellia, and chopped off Prunus and Gleditsia suckers. Easy to walk past these things, see that they need dealing with, and keep on walking.