Gardening
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♥Feb. 1st, 2015 // 04:49 pm♥
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Today's forecast snow didn't materialise (although we were pretty convinced it was about to a couple of times), so we've been doing bits of gardening in the bitterly cold wind.
I've pruned some grasses and one of our Mystery Shrubs*, and we re-potted the patio peach tree (as opposed to the orchard peach tree, the concept of re-potting that being somewhat alarming) into a bigger tub. That involved digging up a bit of lawn (the Sainted Bob Flowerdew says that putting a layer of upside-down turf in the bottom of pots is The Best Thing Evah (I paraphrase)), but that's ok as we'll shortly be digging up a whole lot more lawn (to put into the bottoms of the new veg planters) and then Doing Something Different there (see previous post re: three tonnes of rock).
* The one (that isn't lavender) next to Jodie in this picture. It had been cut back to the base before, so I figured it was probably ok to do it again....
Edit: the not-terribly-accurate diagram that we have of that bed suggests that it might be spirea 'goldflame', which looks quite but not entirely similar. You're only supposed to take out a third of the stems each year, but we'll see what happens. I'm planning on taking out all the shrubs on this side of it anyway, so no great hardship if it goes.
We've also had a rather bracing ride, during which GB showed signs of developing a scary corner of the school: I shall keep an eye on that, next time I ride him, but it was very windy so he has some cause. Baby was (for him) really quite good: I managed about 1.5x 20m canter circle on one rein and about 0.75x on the other, without doing my usual trick of letting him think he was just cutting the corners in a very symmetrical manner. |
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