What have you done today in the Garden?

@Daniel W love those plant labels....where you get them ?

 

Got home from work planted the tomatoes before the sun set.

 

Just a tidy up today, a bit of weeding and mowing. But it took two hours.





The lawn has almost completely recovered. Mowing twice a week will keep it thickening up.

I gave the "hems" of the two acer palmatums a trim.













It needs quite a bit of wiring to keep this wisteria "tight" to the fence, but worth the effort.







My wife's favourite azalea and rhodo. They are very white.










The wisteria over the back of the house is losing its blooms. I'll be vacuuming them up for the next couple of weeks.#

I got quite a bit of grass out of the rockery, it's painstaking work.



The white wisteria is nearly out.

 

I took these photos just now it's just before 10.00pm.
It's the first time I've used my Lumix DMC LX-15 at night. I like the fact that you don't have to check whether it's "flash on or off" or "flash if it thinks it's needed," like my previous camera. With this you have to physically raise the flash light if you want to use it and I didn't.
The garden lights were more than enough illumination to see everything.
I rarely turn them on. If you ain't in the garden, there's no point. Though some neighbours do.

I'll try it again when it's darker. With previous cameras you could hardly see anything.


























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Very, very lovely, Riley. A totally different feeling than when seen in sunlight.

 

Planted out 6 cherry tomato plants into 2 large tubs.
I had a free packet each of carrot and lettuce seeds, so I've sown some in-between the tomatoes, lettuce in the middle and the carrots around the edge.

 

You are going to be eating well, Loggie. The tom plants look quite good.

 

Everything looks so lovely and healthy.

Today I planted corn, and placed my started peas in their trench. It's been a very busy time with unexpected company staying since Thursday. It's quite warm at 34 C, but I'm getting frost at night. I'll be glad when it is more seasonal. Town day again tomorrow. The irrigation got hooked up yesterday out of necessity, and we tied in the pump due to the high water. The garden and trees sure appreciated the water as well as the seeds.

 

@Doghouse Riley your yard is perfection day or night. Love the fairyland look and feel of your garden.

 

Thank you Sjoerd, as long as the slugs and snails don't eat the lettuce and carrots. But they were free so got nothing to lose.

 

Mel— good to hear that you got your corn and peas in. Company?— put ‘em to work. Haha.
Good to hear from you.

 

As it was a golf day, I hadn't intended to do anything in the garden. But when I came home, I went down to the tea-house to get a beer to go with my evening meal. Big mistake, because I noticed there was a crack in the centre window of the centre door. It was full width. I've no idea how this happened, maybe it was "plastic fatigue."

They are re-cycled light diffusers, part of some light fittings scrapped when my firm re-fitted a shop.
Fortunately I have a couple of spares. So me being me, I decided to do it this afternoon. I smashed the cracked one to get it out. It was quite brittle.

The door can be removed, as it's secured top and bottom, by four bolts one at each corner.
The windows fit into grooves on all four sides, so I had to remove the right-hand side upright of the frame. So just a case of sliding the new one in. Not quite, I remembered that (thirty-six years ago) I took an inch of each of the long sides, before making the door. If I didn't, the little wooden panel in the bottom would have been only about three inches high and looked a bit daft.

So I had to carefully take an inch of the new one with just a hacksaw blade, holding it whilst wearing a garden glove. Took an age, as it could easily have cracked.




Once re-assembled, just a case of gluing back the little uprights of hard wood, which make each window look as if it has three panes. A couple of others had come loose.





Done and dusted.



I breathed a sigh of relief when I was tidying up the garage when I'd finished, I noticed the other spare had a crack in it, so if I'd ruined the first, I'd have been no better off.

 

Worked a little on the portion of the yard with no fence, just hedges. When we moved in there were only bushes covering the driveway. Of course the land drops away into the neighboring property filled with bush. To put in a fence there would require some soil for leveling the property line. Will discuss this with the contractor before making a final decision. Still have another hard to reach section behind the shed to cut back blackberry vines coming in from the other neighbors. The lots in the neighborhood are just too big for easy maintenance.

 

They are from Amazon, bamboo plant labels. I like them being bamboo but they are bit brittle. I've broken two.

 

Cleared a lot of bluebell foliage from the rear bed and the one by the kitchen window. I like to do it before it gets mushy, I tend to drag out a few bulbs when I do this, but we've far too many anyway. Either tomorrow after golf or Thursday after shopping, I'll clear the main border.

There's quite a few in the front garden under the azaleas. The "lollypop" acer is now in full leaf, it'll go a darker green as we move through the summer.