I tidied up the flower bed under the wisteria, picked off all the dead leaves and pulled off the dead stems/leaves from the bearded irises and crocosmia. Really enjoyed being outside and even we had some sunshine.
Not exactly gardening but I sorted out some seeds to sow, wrote out the plant labels and did my daily bulb check. I get so damned excited when I see a bulb poking through - so easily pleased at times. I was about to plant some seeds but football (listening not playing) got in the way
Hello , lovely sunny day but cold , cut sedums down , just soggy stems , managed to ram them in garden bin with blackberries stems , bin definitely full now
As the sunshine was streaming through the front windows by 12.30 pm , we assumed it had warmed up a bit - wrong! We did a hasty bit of brushing up moss from the paving round the house then hightailed it back into the house.
I sowed some seeds, potted on some prairie coneflower seedlings from coldframe, potted up some more penstemons that had rooted in water and deadheaded lavender. Sorted out some veg seeds for sowing soon.
Took advantage of the dry sunny weather and pottered about whilst being serenaded by a sparrow in a nearby tree. Tided up dead leaves from the crowns of plants, cut back snowberry (what a mistake that was), and sat on the bench for a while. The 2 sarcacocca at opposite ends end of the garden are really pumping out the perfume and a few bees were taking advantage of the tiny flowers. It's still a way off, but there's that faint suggestion of Spring in the air .
Removed a Cersis (Forest Pansy) which was steadily dying back, cut back all the gp3 clematis and cleared a lot of old Magnolia leaves which were covering clumps of emerging snowdrops. Weeded out a few hundred common chickweed seedlings and lots of emerging cleaver seedlings.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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There's always tomorrow.
Lots of rain tonight , a lot of water in stream
It's still a way off, but there's that faint suggestion of Spring in the air