What have you done today in the Garden?

Sometimes a Shrub like Mahonia Japonica comes into it's own after the flowers have gone...

 

Yesterday ordered my tulips to plant in the autumn, get them in August but won't do it until September or October.

 

Potted on some more of the wallflowers, can't do anything else because of the rain.

 

Picked a lot of fruit, blackcurrants, redcurrants and pinkcurrants.

 

They look good.
These currents sort of look like salmon eggs a littlebit.

 

Watering, weeding, harvesting and transplanting, more of the same today.

 

Last night I gave the lawn a soluble feed, I think it needed it after all the rain we've had.
This morning I got into the rockery and weeded out quite a bit of grass.





I got it done before the rain.

I say "rockery," but it's now just a "mound of phlox" for the most part.

But it is a proper rockery, not a "dogs' cemetery" as poor ones are sometimes called, with a few rocks scattered about.

I mean, this many (not actually these, as they are more regular shaped and were for the other three sides of the pool). This is from 35 years ago.




In all I had five pallets worth, including three for the patio and paths. York stone is easy to split to use on paths.
I built the rockery as you should, positioning the rocks as strata. This was how it was immediately after I'd completed the build.




I've got to say a carpet of phlox looks attractive in May.








But I might get into it at some time, do a bit of "fettling" to expose some of the rocks, which under there all have a nice covering of moss.

 

Same as yesterday

 

Thank you Sjoerd, never seen salmon eggs.
Last year and the year before the sparrows ate them before they were ripe enough for us to eat, but it's been raining a lot for a few weeks and there must be proper food for them.

 

Picked some Loganberries

Raspberries

 

It sounds like an apt fruit for you to pick, Loggie.

 

Thank you Sjoerd, I've got a food forest in the back garden and the front is more like a cottage garden with fruit and veg.
The thing is I always get bitten by little insects when picking them.

 

Oh Loggie, that sounds really attractive. I would like seeing some piccies. Congrats again on your great haul.

 

Sjoerd thanks, at the moment my pics that I take are too big and sometimes I can chop them, but got to find a app that's free to make them smaller.

 

rain rain rain. we have been deluged with rain. yesterday was a gully washer. flooded my shed, covered the catch basin with washed gravel in the back ravine driveway, washed out of the pond above the neighbors and into my driveway cutting a 1' deep gully away from t he side of the drive. scrape dump scrape dump scrape dump. thank God we had a skid steer home.. I had to shimmy over a horizontal ladder to get to the plugged catch basin in the back to pull the debris away from the grate to empty it so it didn't flood out again... had to wash out the shed floor from all the mud left inside. today picking raspberries. 14 quarts so far.