I've just separated the lavendar seeds from the stalks, that I harvested two weeks ago, its an ongoing job. Madam uses it in her crafts. These ones have grown and need digging up in the winter ready for some new ones.
I smell loverly!!!
Some of our shrubs have gone a bit woody and after extensive trimming and tiding I think they will have to be dug up. I was thinking of a small tree or a taller shrub next to a 7foot retaining wall, its a sunny sheltered spot.
Grass has been cut for the first time in over two months. Lots more to do.
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Barbara
Rain has stopped play today.
We discovered we have a nicely-shaped flower bed which is now being shown in all its glory with just five plants, three silver grey-green speared leaf plants and two silver-white things with very wavy leaves and spikes of yellow flowers that look like the middle of daisies. The garden at that end looks oddly wider and bigger now all the lavender stragglers have gone and, with the deep blue of the garage wall behind them, the grey's and silvers look wonderful.
I think the recently colder nights have hit our young passion flower, it's very droopy.
Hellpppp!
Brilliant typo!
A bad year here too although not for squash for those who like to grow veg!!
Our grass is still trying to recover from that drought last year....the grass died and the weeds didn't :roll:
Toni xxx
Salads have mostly been a non-starter, although once this hotspot goes I'll start sowing winter lettuce etc in the hopes that September will be kind and let them get established.
However climbing French beans have come through as they usually do(much better use of my limited space and longer cropping than dwarf) and the toms are redeeming the situation. Several different sorts all growing outside. My old faithful 'Outdoor Girl' managed, despite the poor early start and continuing lack of moisture, to get the first ripe fruit in before the end of July. Now others are ripening well - not large quantities, but that's OK as it's only me.They often don't get to the kitchen as I go on a daily tour of the garden; the temptation of a sunwarmed tom is not one I bother to resist too much!
We planted toms in the veg patch rather than the green house, no watering, no food and no sticks, they've gone mad, grown AND ripened, yum yum!