What have you done today in the Garden?

Did a bit of pruning in the front garden.
The two viburnums "battle" for space with the two rhodos and several azaleas. If I left them to their own devices, they would always "win,"and grow far too tall. So they get a good pruning every year.




I also have to prune back the viburnam, rhodo and azaleas, where they grow over our curtilage wall and "try to block the pavement."
The rhodo with the small blooms is already out, the azaleas are starting to come out. The other rhodo will be later.





Our acer tree is at its best, all pink and green foliage and pale green blossom.





I painted the balustrade of this pergola.




It dried before any bits of wisteria blossom could fall on it and spoil the finish





The last of the wisterias is now in bloom. No foliage as yet, just as it should be.




This little acer has nearly filled the gaps caused by me significantly reducing its size.

The tree azaleas are nearly out.

The lawn here is recovering quite well.

 

All I've done today in the garden wasn't really IN the garden, I opened my potting shed and gathered up every dirty pot I had and washed them all.

After that I hung new matchstick blinds on my back, north-facing screen porch (and that was a pain).
They had one measured wrong, sent a 23" wide instead of the 25" wide, which I ordered but, it came from China so I'm not sending it back. It's on the end so it's ok. The hardest part was taking off all the tape they had wrapped in a spiral all the way up and down the packaging of each blind, then the wrapped the ends a hundred laps each !! I guess the Chinese have a surplus of tape they need to use up !!

 

Nothing really as we've been out for the majority of the day but did water all the plants, cuttings and seedlings in the greenhouse on returning home .