What have you done today in the Garden?

Hiya Daniel— thanks mate.
That “thing” is a vedermot…and there are several sorts. Their classification family is: Pterophoridae.
I do not know which one this guy is. I see them in various tints of brown and greyish. Every year I see a couple, so while they are present they are not exactly in your face.

 

Lots of indoor gardening for me the last two days.

I cut down and removed one of the giant fig trees. They used to be in each front window, but since moving Hubby's power recliner to a window seat for his last couple of surgeries, the trees were fighting for light in one window. The one I removed was 13 feet tall. This will let the smaller 10 foot tall one fill out. It was a little sad but necessary. I'd had that fig tree for almost 30 years. The smaller one for 20 years.

I potted up the Jade tree to a much larger and more sturdy pot. It was becoming top heavy.

I also potted three varieties of Pathos that I had rooted in water. They will remain in those small pots for a couple of months, and then they will be transplanted to the top of the living wall in the loft. I pruned and rooted the Hoya plant, and potted some cuttings from the Christmas Cactus. And ended with potting a rooted Grape Ivy.

Gotta play in dirt any way we can And scratch the gardening itch.

 

Just come in from a good productive day in the garden. Potted up in compost and perlite some of the Dahlia tubers that I want to rehome somewhere next year. Dug up, trimmed and potted up some more tender Fuchsias. Potted up lots of rooted Ajuga off shoots to plant up as ground cover in certain areas next Spring. Gave all the plants in the big lean-to coldframe a drop of water.

I had hoped a day outside would chase an awful migraine away but unfortunately it didn't.

 

Gardening is gardening— inside or out. Right?

Heh heh— you are innovative. I know what you mean about needing to play in the dirt.
That was smart pruning the figs. You will have much more light coming in now. Who’s the smart cookie then.

Don’t you just love a jade tree. I gave Eileen one ages ago. I wonder if ut is still alive.

 

That sounds good, Oreti.
Sorry about that migraine.

 

It's rained on and off for a couple of days. There are leaves that need collecting, but few have fallen yet from the several wisterias. I'll give it a week and then start stripping some more. But on the first dry day next week, I'll collect a lot of next door's silver birch leaves that have fallen into our garden.


I'm only certain that one of the three hedgehog houses is occupied.

This one under the azaleas next to the patios, but the resident has not triggered the camera for two weeks since it last went in.





So next week, I'll check the other two and if they are vacant, I'll put them in the shed having removed the bedding and cleaned them out and I'll let them dry out over the winter.

I've brought this acer palmatum Taylor now it has shed its leaves, into the freezer/storeroom in the back of the garage, as I did last year.





Two others we'd had before it over the past six years did not survive the low temperatures experienced in the winter.

 

Riley—Cheers for the update on your mol-blog. Good that you take such good care of their houses over the winter.

That little Acer is a real beauty.

Mate it is raining Wisteria leaves. I have swept already, but will just hold off until they have all fallen off. That way I can see what and where to prune.

 

It was sunny most of the day, but clouds moved in this afternoon.

I worked outside in my garden today. I got one load of chips hauled around to my containers. I took down one of those mini greenhouses that I had for years. It was just wore out. I saved a few things to repurpose, and tossed the rest. I don't recommend them, they are not worth what is charged for them. I got a trash pile burned. I was going to burn that pile of bushes and vines by the driveway, but they are calling for high winds and storms overnight, so I decided to wait. I saved some more of my dried flower heads for their seeds. I am slowly getting those done. I cut some of them down also.

I do not get any "winter vacation" like some. I am way behind on chores, hopefully, I can catch up by spring. Some of my to-do list:

finish hauling the wood chips around my garden

rake leaves and haul to the compost or mulch flower beds

haul that large pile of ashes to the nearby woods

finish repairing that section of fence, waiting on DS to get home for Thanksgiving

WEED flower beds (50 or 60+?)

Trim overgrown grass around edges

burn two more brush piles

clean out the poison ivy wall; and clean out the opposite end of my garden

that is some of it.

I have plenty indoors to work on also.