And it has been a busy one this year! In addition to colouring Easter eggs in onion skins, singing in the church choir and feasting with our big family, we did quite a few things in the garden.
As the roses I ordered from the David Austin website had arrived, I planted the three of them and the witch hazel on Friday. The soil in the garden is extremely sticky, with that much clay we could be throwing pots! It was very hard to dig, and I'm happy and grateful that my wonderful SO did the digging today! (He would have done it on Friday, but I didn't ask him to as he was putting up some IKEA furniture for the dining room.)
Today, we added some topsoil on the area where the borders are going to be, planted 3 lavenders, 3 foxgloves, 2 clematis(es?) and a bay tree. By the time we finished all of that (including putting up trellises and removing some gravel from the ground) it was 8 pm and too dark to take pictures. I will put them up as soon as I take some, although at the moment it still looks like bare, muddy soil with some twigs sticking out...
Oh, and Phil also made a trestle-leg garden table which currently holds the radish/kohlrabi planter, and a new one I made today with some special offer herbs from B&Q: 2 lemon thymes, 2 thymes, 1 sage, 1 cream variegated sage, 1 parsley and a lovely, sweet smelling marjoram.
And now, just for record keeping, I will list all the varieties planted this weekend (casual reader, stop reading now! ;))
Rosa 'Gertrude Jekyll'
Rosa 'Zephirine Drouhin'
Rosa 'Ferdinand Pilchard'
Hamamelis 'Jelena'
Clematis 'Multi Blue' (needs light pruning in early spring)
Clematis 'Ville de Lyon' (hard prune to 12" in early spring)
Digitalis 'Giant Spotted'
Laurus Nobilis (Sweet bay)
Lavender
and various herbs.
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