Gardening
Plenty of growth on my balcony cactus garden in Marseille since last year’s up-potting. That means weeds too, the most effective control is weeding by hand, but it’s dangerous...
Spring has arrived here in Keswick so it's time to dig in a few new plants in my garden. Rhododendrons, hazels, a laurel, rosemary, lavender and a syringa. This is filling in gaps where the previous plantings have failed. Going for largish plants so hopefully for some result this season. It feels really positive putting in new plants, though only the herbs went in easily; all the rest were struggles with existing roots, non-Roman terracotta pottery and plenty of rocks the glacier left behind. So this photoset shows several sessions of gardening. I’m sure they’ll look great when they’re established and when I’ll be complaining about even more plants to snip to keep trim!
More photos: Digging in new green in Keswick - Lake District National Park
Surprise mist this morning in Preston Park, Brighton making Terry’s garden look a sub-tropical cloud forest this Christmas Eve.
Trimming and shaping the pavement side of my hedges in Keswick, surrounded by birds singing happily. There’s plenty of new growth even though it’s winter; whilst there have been frosts and there’s snow still on the tops of the highest fells around, my garden certainly hasn’t lacked water.
Weather too unreliable for riding a bike so working in the garden. I'm a lumberjack, And I'm OK - remember the Monty Python song? Trimming a hedge, a Leylandii, then the lawn in my garden in Keswick.
