With my client in her private garden, we have been successional sowing more veg, hoeing, keeping the greenhouse going and watering. Her numerous Clematis have been tied in and they are going crackers with new growth, reaching for the skies.
In another small garden I tend to, I am really pleased with the way the veg plot is shaping up. Only a few spaces left to fill and those plants are coming on nicely being hardened off.
At Heale, the veg garden is looking great. The gaps are being filled. All that planning, double digging, sowing, watering, pricking out, potting on. It all culminates in a full lush veg patch. Heale is almost there.
HG and Harry (our Workie form Sparsholt) and I worked solidly in the veg garden last week. We had cut flowers to plant out, Zinnia, Cosmos (mixture of varieties), Tithonia and Stock. We had Sage to plant amongst the Box parterres. Cropping has begun every other day (or whenever is required) of the fast growing Asparagus and there is plenty of Salad/Rhubarb/herbs to go round.
We have to tend to our single cordon Sweetpeas twice a week. Nipping off tendrils and side shoots, tying in the main shoot.
When you pop your head up and take a look, the rest of the garden is in full flow. A walk to the Greenhouses affords you a moment to take it in. The Wisterias are full on, scent filled and creeping up the arches alongside Laburnum.
The Cow Parsley is looking gorgeous. A plant which can divide people, some loving, some hating. When I went online to find its Latin name I found a headline from The Independent entitled 'Cow Parsley: The countryside killer'. Steady on now. Yes our verges are changing and it is an invasive plant but I'm not sure we require the headline. I also learnt the Latin name, a new one on me: Anthriscus sylvestris. A member of the Carrot family. I, of course, love the stuff, my childhood would not be the same without it, filling the hedgerows on my country lane.
HG said he nearly crashed the mower when he spotted this delicate dark beauty: Calycanthus florid us. A rich deep red/brown flower. If I am to believe the WWW, the leaves are aromatic when bruised and the flowers smell of a mix of Strawberry, Banana and Pineapple. Wow.
Many Tree Peonies are showing off at the mo. Not to mention the Gunnera and Ferns in the Japanese garden.
The star of the gardens for me may not be a plant this week. I think I have fallen for the MOST beautiful black lambs in the field across the river! Bleating away madly in conversation with their Mothers, they are just gorgeous. Since having children, I am hopelessly nurturing and just want to feed them and care for them!
A great working week. The variety of my work nowadays continues to interest me, no two days are the same.
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