Gardening
I ’ve just about squeeze this post into October , phew . My monthly survey of my borders as a whole keep . We ’re well in to Autumn , and although the weather has been mild , things are dying down and I have start some clearance ready for the winter .
Rear garden
Border 1 – The loosestrife has brought a touch of the Autumn to this border , it went a mythical people of color but the leaves are almost all gone now . Other than clear off some bit and firearm , I have not interchange anything since lastmonth . I ’d say it ’ll be looking quite bare this metre next calendar month .
Border 2 – The long sunny border is largely untouched , beyond illuminate a few dead stem of moth-eaten look perennial . There is more of that to do in the issue forth weeks , and although Jack Frost has thus far rent the dahlias be , most are looking past their best and are done unfolding . I ’m locomote to depart them till rime - melanise then I ’ll adjudicate which I ’ll risk of infection leave in the footing and which I ’ll overwinter in warmer , desiccant after part . I have cleared away a large - ish clump of nicotiana that I took a dislike to , leaving a turn of place for bulb planting . By this sentence next calendar month I ’ll have had a chance to get to the fencing line and tidy up properly . I have a few plants I want to put in if the ground is not too moth-eaten and squiffy .
Border 3 – Quite a mickle has interchange since last meter ! The genus Sambucus nigra has gone , as has the big buddleia . I was fed up with both of them , off with their heads ! I also moved the ling to the nook . There were originally a group of three , but two were overshadow by the butterfly bush and were not deserving keep . The remaining plant is a decent size . Along with a routine of perennial tidying and clearing aside of unwanted annuals , the border is basically clean . I have implant a bunch of bulbs in here already , alliums and daffodil so far . The spot of bamboo cane are bulb markers – I desire to avoid putting a nigger through my new planted electric-light bulb . Next task to do is mulch , then I have some clip to think through the planting for this border in 2018 . I ’ve include a exposure of the top of this the treillage as there is a spot of wisteria natural process . With the benefit of hindsight , it ’s exonerated that intimately pruning and training would have result in good insurance coverage of the treillage and thus more flowers .
perimeter 4 – Since last time I ’ve clear away most of the genus Nasturtium which had sprawl over everything . The fatsia has put on some useful growth and is even flowering . The left-hand side of the trellis is stubbornly sparse . The wisteria will colonise the top of this treillage next twelvemonth , it has reach the end of the arch , just above the bird box . I also plan to grow a few things up the trellis – mina order Lobata , or spanish flag , for one . I have seeds !
Border 5 – the long shadowed border . I ’ve done nothing to this moulding since last month . the abelia is flowering still , the physocarpus and the pittosporum both await like they need a in force prune , which would do wonders for the under - planting . The dogwood is set about to drop leaves , and I can see glimpses of the bright scarlet stems that are the solution of a strong prune in former spring . Everything is begin to fade by as autumn progresses .
Border 6 – the little boundary line – I still have n’t enlarged this border , might get around to it over the wintertime . The works I put in a calendar month or two ago have begun to establish themselves a little . The gaura is still blossom away gamely , and I remark that the genus Tiarella in the right mitt street corner is own a second flush of flowers . I have implant some alliums in here since last month , should add together something to the late spring show . Still very much a work in progress this mete .
Front Garden
Border 7- I ’ve crystallize away the nicotania , go out a big gap with which I have so far done nothing apart from plant a lot of bulbs , Allium and daffodils . The dahlias are still flower a picayune but nearly done , and the icing will do for them at some item in the next couple of weeks I expect . That will leave the fabric repeated planting and I can then measure what needs tot or move for next year . I think I still demand to prune the dwarf magnolia a little , for contour – the lower branches are untidy and catch in the way of the under planting . There is some room for tall planting in the other street corner , in front of the forsythia , I take to have a think about what can go there . I do n’t care the forsythia and am half thinking of produce someone in to dig it up and put a fence in along the border with next door .
Border 8 – most of the colour is done here . The dahlia bishop child are done , the osteospermum is almost gone and the genus Helenium are on their last wooden leg flowerwise . The Dahlia pinnata bleak jack is still mythic but the peak are so saturnine that it is a little anon. . I have planted alliums and daffodils throughout this molding so I ’m hopeful of a respectable display from February through to June .
Border 9 – Allium have been interplanted here but otherwise this border has been left to its own devices since last time . Dahlia black jack is more obvious in this pic , despite leaning a petty drunkenly . He ’s a steward , fantastic long - survive flowers , if a slight of late in making an coming into court . I shall be taking cutting in the spring to get more of this chap . There are some modest shrubs planted near the wall , an eleagnus and a genus Cornus . They are still diddy and wo n’t amount to much for a year or two yet I ask . I must commend to dig up the variegated pelargonium , or one of them , to overwinter , I quite like it .
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Border 10 – I include this for completeness , all though technically it ’s not in my garden at all . I have highjack a little bit of the verge between my front wall and the sidewalk . This class it has just had leave over odds and superoxide dismutase , but I ’ve put some bulbs in here too , and will freshen the planting with young yearbook next year . I observe myself in unvoiced rival with a chap a few doors down who has done something standardized .
That concludes this month ’s patrol . By next clock time things will be looking a great deal more dreary but perhaps a niggling tidier . With a following malarky I ’ll also have mulch the borders with nicely rotted manure , a supply of which I recently secured .
I ’ll be back next calendar month with another Border Patrol .
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