Sep 20, 2014
HIERACIUM AURANTIACUM SEEDS (ORANGE HAWKWEED, DEVIL’S PAINTBRUSH, Fox Cubs)
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HIERACIUM AURANTIACUM SEEDS (ORANGE HAWKWEED, DEVIL’S PAINTBRUSH, Fox Cubs)
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In the pissing rain (note to self, buy completely waterproof gloves!) weeded. Lavender Border, Island and somewhat less perfectly the Tango Bed. Latter ripped out all the self-sown calendula next to the fence. Pulled up some of the calendula I’d shoved in the other month as hadn’t gotten around to anything yet. Then realised bit late that was a mistake given how late next door’s calendula was still flowering last year, so left the rest I got to. Discovered a perfect corner of, well, we’re guessing, rabbit poop. Quite the most bizarre thing ever! {:) Kinda wish I’d taken a picture, but the rainclouds were making it hard to see.
Potted up 60, yes SIXTY, teeny tiny viola Avalanche. 40 into tiniest pots that went on Balcony on hope blackbird won’t kill ‘em all, then slug pelleted. Rest in old Dobbies herb pots and put underneath a bench, ditto previous times 2. One, maybe 2 plants not very happy, happy. All good though at that price! So yeah, things looking much better out there. Far too wet for any further pruning though or staking. Took a lot out of side of the big Lullingstone Castle and some off front of Old Englis (was spilling over grass too much).
Repeat after me, ‘Do not abandon your garden for 11 days. In July. Even if it is to help someone else in their garden.’ Fudge. Extreme fudge. Bishop Flowers have been stripped to stalks. Tagetes in Sunflower Border ditto. Nothing has been tied up. Grass hasn’t been mowed. Things have been left where they have fallen over. In other words: either a) sack OH b) leave OH mindnumbingly detailed instructions.
On plus side, there are actually some flowers in the garden now! :) We’ll just ignore this crappy weather this year that means nothing is where it should be. At this rate, the sunflowers will come out in February, and they’ll be tiny. Can’t feed them, ground too damp. Meanwhile the sweet peas seem to have forgotten the concept of climbing. I don’t mean they’re racing along the ground. I mean they’re less than a foot from the ground and then some of them have decided to flower. Just so, so odd. And depressing. The two things I look forward to now, the sweet peas covering the fence, the sunflowers screening the wall, with tagetes bushing around them behind the herbs = fence, wall, large expanses of soil. Ugh. My beloved tall Kong sunflowers are TEENY.
Tango Bed is just Anthemis this year, should have sorted planting scheme sooner. Or maybe not, given the Yarrows I just took out for not staying orange for long enough are more orange than their replacements. These are sat in the pots being very certainly red. Arrrggghhh. Gonna have to search garden centres for a reliably orange Terracotta (just seen too many not truly orange and heck, it’s a cliche for yarrows). Of course the multi-colour mix of calendula at the back of the bricks have come up again wonderfully (yeah, stop rubbing it in).
Anyway, did some remedial stuff, tying sunflowers onto stakes (breathe and remember that sunflowers in Washgreen Sunflower Square are doing much better. Well except for Kong again). Slug pelleted the sunflower border, no point around Bishop Flowers as all gone. Watering, fertilising etc.
Think I probably need to start counting my losses and focus on next year. I put lots of things in waaay too late, so it’s not just the weather. Bright side is, it’s been so awful, a great show would have been pointless ‘cos you’d not sit out there to look at it. Or something like that ;) I have at least got the Washgreen sorted and so next year I’ll get on top of things sooner and get the Tango bed up to scratch. All the light I cleared to help the origanums bulk up was a waste of time, that fecking weed bush crap from next door is taking over again. So screw it, I’m jumping the fence* and digging up all the ones closest to the fence. Had ENOUGH of them! {:D
*I should at this point note: a) neighbour has no problem with me going in their garden and pruning the forsythia hedge several times a year and weeding the boundary b) neighbour rents like moi, landlord didn’t know there was a garden {:O c) neighbour has no clue about these damn bushes as d) was neighbour’s predecessor that built a giant stage cutting off their own access to several feet of the back of their garden e) thus the only way anyone can get to them is by vaulting my chickenwire fence f) these bushes do nothing except (1) grow through my fence and block out my light and (2) store a neighbourhood’s worth of rubbish within them (which is a lovely view from our deck) which of course I can’t fish out of the damn things BECAUSE THERE IS NO ACCESS TO THEM! So I’m not entirely a wanton vandal, folks…
Watered tango bed with one pack of nematodes for vine weevils.
Planted up all the orange bulbs in the Tango Bed, most already sprouting. Created collars from plastic pots. Split 8 Daydreams into 2 groups of 4; 20 Orange Emperors into 4 groups of 5; 25 Ballerinas into 5 groups of 5. Vine weevils in all the soil. Joy! }:( Managed to remove half my back on the metal corner of the glass coldframe as well, so had to cut short the gardening.
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Trying to remember as the post I wrote didn’t publish/save last week.
Mowed the lawn, edged, only I forgot the lavender island. Moved 2 of the tagetes in the tango Bed back to where other glads are to stop there being such a big empty gap of mud and to balance out the scheme. looks a lot better. Brought the echinacea and happy poppy pots off the deck and plonked into gaps straight onto soil of Tango Bed.
Weeded Red Bed and Blue & Silver border. Probably did more tidying, but can’t remember.
Drat, looks like my last post didn’t post. So that will require some memory I don’t have! :( Edged the lavender island as I missed it last week and started redoing rest of edges before light went. Planted up the new Russian Sage. May be a little too big, but heyho! :D Tied up the GMO sweet peas. Now coming out, the Orange Dragon had a pink stem sigh and the Orange Crush’s white stem is still going great guns!
Walther Funke yarrow is out and nice and orange, yay! Also the rudbeckias are now all out in Tango Bed and looking fab. Just the first plant that flowered needing swopping out next year as too yellow. Orange germs also appear to be orange. Pleased with how I moved the tagetes as looking rather more balanced now. Grabbed another globe flower on Wednesday as on sale, so that’s promising. It’s actually in bud.
Deadheaded roses and tied them in some more over the blue & silver border. Pruned some dead flowerheads off the buddlejas.
Coreopsis 'Sweet Marmalade' Possibly one of Paddington Bear’s favourites, (and not just because of the name), it so easy to grow with a barrage of orange blooms from June to October. Reliably hardy, extremely drought tolerant and attractive to bees and butterflies. Good for cutting and great for containers or borders. Prefers sun in well drained soil. Hardy perennial. Flower Colour: Orange Aspect: Full Sun Hardiness: Hardy Perennial Delivery: April onwards Quantity: 5 young plants Other: Flowers For Cutting/Drying Other: Bees And Butterflies Other: Drought Tolerant Other: Suitable for Container Height: 30-45cm (12-18) Spread: 30-45cm (12-18). Flowering Time: Long Flowering, Summer & Autumn Maybe too much yellow?