I spent an awful lot of time this week dead heading. I do love pruning, it can be so satisfying. Main work was with Roses and Peonies but also worked with Apples, summer pruning the stems to 1 bud past the basal cluster. Safe in the knowledge that your work will stimulate more growth and a better plant next season.
At Heale the herb and cut flowers areas are in full swing. I do love a good Fennel bed and Borage.
The veg garden looks really good now, everything is going really strong (including the dreaded weeds - my favourite being Purslane; totally flat and sprawling in growth and edible, I ate it and I am still here).
HG introduced me to a rogue that I had not planted in the cut flower section called Bupleurum, used in bouquets and flower arranging for structure. Similar looking to a Euphorbia.
I got to go on the mower at Heale this week cutting and sucking up Alchemilla mollis that grows amongst flagstones on the Terraces. Quicker than flipping cutting with Shears! Great fun and a reminder of how to use the mower! Lots of work to do in other areas. Sweet pea maintenance continues, feeding the greenhouse crops, edging and weeding, watering pots and veg plots.
Papadum and the chickens have been pootling about a lot, birds of prey circling overhead, visitors taking pix of me digging the soil, Bees buzzing down my shirt. Just an ordinary day in the life of a Gardener.
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