What did you do in your garden today?

[Sean Regan]

Sean Regan has posted a video on YouTube of how he built the tea house in the corner of his garden, it has had a heck of a lot of views.

Thanks for that. I uploaded them under my "alter ego"

It's not really a video, just a succession of photos, but it has had over ninety-one thousand hits.

I also made a couple about how to make authentic looking "life-sized" Japanese lanterns, for just a few quid.

They've had over fifty-seven thousand hits between them.

 

[Black_Thumb]

Thanks for that. I uploaded them under my "alter ego"

It's not really a video, just a succession of photos, but it has had over ninety-one thousand hits.

I also made a couple about how to make authentic looking "life-sized" Japanese lanterns, for just a few quid.

They've had over fifty-seven thousand hits between them.

That is awesome!!!!

 

[Sean Regan]

A few signs of Spring
An azalea in the front garden. It gets very little sun but does its best. The flowers look a bit "plastic." There's two azaleas in this corner, then a line of about 30ft of pink ones to the left, that won't be out for a bit.
You can just see the mesh wire and wooden post three ft high fence I made thirty years ago which separates ours and next door's garden. I think for these small front gardens it looks better than a post and panel fence. It's hardly noticeable. I'm amazed it's lasted so long. The posts are still rock solid.

Two quinces on the side fence in the back garden.

There will be few blooms on the camellia as I prune it each year to stop it getting too big. We just like it for its leaves.

"If it had it's own way" it'd be like it was when it was one of these three in the middle of the garden in 2005.

I binned two and cut this one down to a couple of feet and planted it "where it couldn't cause too much bother."
I reduced the size of this bed to what you can see in the final photo.

These are flower buds on one of the wisterias, (leaf buds look different), as always, drastic pruning in late December or early January produces hundreds of them
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I bought these heathers on 3rd February, they were in flower then. They've got bigger and are still in flower.
The heathers and hebes are in plastic pots sitting on saucers, but I reverse these until the warm weather comes, as I don't want them sitting in water. Likewise, the pot movers have a drilled hole in the bottom. I put a dab of silicone over them in the summer, so they retain some water.

The lawn looks OK, but there's quite a bit of dead moss and it needs a good scarifying, but not until it gets a bit drier.

There's two bald patches, at the far end. I've seeded them and will give them a chance, but if they don't recover well, I'll invest in a couple of rolls of turf and patch them. "I won't mess about."

 

[Cindi]

Got the jet-wash out today and gave the pagoda a go over. Over its life, it's had two different colour schemes.
It's ready for a paint job.

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I also jet-washed the little patio behind the shed , the path down to the tea-house, the York stone area in front of it and the two flagged paths either side of it down to the back fence. There will be some re-pointing required of the small patio in places.


I also did the brick lawn edging, not too severely, as I don't want to make it noticeable, but it got rid of any surface moss on the tops of the bricks and any moss or grass between them.

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(The bricks are holding down wires attached to the net over the acer).

 

[Cindi]

This morning I cleared my flower beds of leaves and debris. I have a lot of trees and I also picked up and raked small sticks and branches. Now...relaxing and happy for what I accomplished

 

[Black_Thumb]

In the last two days, I have filled two trash bags with wild violets, sorrel, dandelions, wild onions, prickly lettuce, pieces of Bermuda grass growing in my mulched hedges, and some other undesirables. I mowed the entire lawn yesterday as well. I love my new mulching blades too!! All of that nutrient-rich grass getting blown right back down into the grass to feed the good grass!

We have a number of friends coming over tonight, so I won't be able to get much of anything done on my chicken coop. I'll just have to focus on the weeds for today.

 

[Sean Regan]

In the last two days, I have filled two trash bags with wild violets, sorrel, dandelions, wild onions, prickly lettuce, pieces of Bermuda grass growing in my mulched hedges, and some other undesirables. I mowed the entire lawn yesterday as well. I love my new mulching blades too!! All of that nutrient-rich grass getting blown right back down into the grass to feed the good grass!

We have a number of friends coming over tonight, so I won't be able to get much of anything done on my chicken coop. I'll just have to focus on the weeds for today.

I thought it was looking as if it were going to be, "a chicken condominium."

 

[Black_Thumb]

I thought it was looking as if it were going to be, "a chicken condominium."

LOL...at this rate, it's more of a homeless shelter.

 

[Sean Regan]

It was dry enough to spend an hour in the garden, giving the lawn, "a bit of a scarify."
My Black & Decker scarifier is forty years old and it obviously doesn't get a lot of use. But it sits in the shed for the best part of a year "doin' nuffin'" so I always give it a going over before using it each year.
The most likely thing to fail is the belt, if the mechanism jams. So I make sure all the moving parts have been oiled or greased.
I set it on the middle height and removed quite a bit of moss, then gave the lawn a good mow, that picked up more loose moss as well as grass.
I'll put it on a lower setting on Monday and give it another go as it looks as if it will be a sunny day with no rain for a change.

 

[Julian777ju]

I dug a whole bed broke up the dirt well about a foot deep. An got 4 big pots ready for green tomatoes. Still waiting on those seeds. I just got okra I need to plant, an tomatoes. An im finished with my planting.

It was dry enough to spend an hour in the garden, giving the lawn, "a bit of a scarify."
My Black & Decker scarifier is forty years old and it obviously doesn't get a lot of use. But it sits in the shed for the best part of a year "doin' nuffin'" so I always give it a going over before using it each year.
The most likely thing to fail is the belt, if the mechanism jams. So I make sure all the moving parts have been oiled or greased.
I set it on the middle height and removed quite a bit of moss, then gave the lawn a good mow, that picked up more loose moss as well as grass.
I'll put it on a lower setting on Monday and give it another go as it looks as if it will be a sunny day with no rain for a change.

Oh cool! An that helps airate your lawn? Is that meant for carpet grass? Or any types of grass?

 

[Sean Regan]

I dug a whole bed broke up the dirt well about a foot deep. An got 4 big pots ready for green tomatoes. Still waiting on those seeds. I just got okra I need to plant, an tomatoes. An im finished with my planting.
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Oh cool! An that helps airate your lawn? Is that meant for carpet grass? Or any types of grass?

Dunno.

Ours is bog standard grass, it'll look "dog rough" for a bit after scarifying, but it does look good in the summer.

 

[Julian777ju]

Dunno.

Ours is bog standard grass, it'll look "dog rough" for a bit after scarifying, but it does look good in the summer.

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You got a beautiful, creative set up like the dwarf styled bush like an umbrella: ) i like your bird bath i got a bird bath also

 

[Sean Regan]

You got a beautiful, creative set up like the dwarf styled bush like an umbrella: ) i like your bird bath i got a bird bath also

Thanks for that, I like to keep them that shape, left to their own devices they'd end up looking like cocktail umbrellas, so I cover them with a net in the winter every few years and tie them down. In the spring, the early growth helps them to "set" in a domed shape, though I do have to prune them a bit.

 

[Sean Regan]

I was messing with my pagoda this morning but had a chance to check on the lily of the valley in the shed, which are doing well.

The lawn doesn't look too bad after the light scarifying yesterday, so it'll take another tomorrow, late afternoon.

 

[Fate]

Today, I spent some time working in my garden. I started by pulling up some weeds that had started to sprout up around my plants. After that, I did some pruning on my fruit trees to help promote healthy growth and remove any dead branches. Finally, I took a few minutes to water everything and make sure that all of my plants were getting the moisture they needed to thrive.

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