What are we doing in the garden 2025

I gave the flowering climber in my conservatory a really good drink last night. I have lost the name but it smells lovely. It has circular panicles of tiny white flowers, is deciduous and a light scent of almost Min furniture cream!
I have moved the tomato seedlings into the conservatory and resown 3 varieties which didn't germinate. Topped up the bird feeder.
After the hairdresser I went to the local GC to buy more bird food, had a look in the "hospital corner", bought a reduced white thrift to tuck in a corner, did a brief supermarket shop, dropped a couple of bowls off at my daughter's, we sat in the garden for a while for her to rant before I came home.
The temperature today is much more comfortable, might get outside and do "something". I must top up the pond for a start. So much needs doing, cannot decide where to start.

 

My potted Fatsia spiderweb has been looking sick since late winter. I blamed the cold so gave it mulch. It didn't improve and then it's been a dry spring so I blamed lack of water.

Gave it a gentle tug yesterday and it came away in my hands. Vine weevil grubs everywhere It's beyond saving so today I've been out and bought an Acer Summer Glow to replace it, along with an Elaeagnus compacta for a spare bit of space next to it.

A bit unsure what to do with the grub filled pot now it's very big so really don't want to waste the soil but it really is chock full of grubs.

 

I pulled out all the Spanish bluebells that have been providing a bit of colour close to the house. Hopefully we've enjoyed their colour, but prevented them from having any goodness return to the bulbs, below the level of the gravel.
Also planted some hollyhock seeds that my wife was given. I've no idea what type they are, but I was asked if I would do it (in a certain part of the garden I had dug over and set aside for cosmos).
I've mentally noted the "favour" I have done, and will cash it in for preparing ground for another plant of my choice - or mowing the grass for a season!!

 

@Jess91 if you lay the contents of the pot out thinly on a tarp, the birds should come and polish the grubs off

 

I have been putting wheelbarrow loads of well rotted horse manure on the garden. Absolutely full of big fat worms. I had one border of really poor soil that I thought would suit my bulbous plants and Australians. It mostly does, but too many other plants die in that regime, so I'm "fattening it up".

 

I was supposed to be going to meet a friend at a garden centre today, but when I came out of the house I realised that the outside tap was dripping, even though it was turned off.
So I had to stay in for the plumber, who luckily came quite quickly. It is fixed now.
Meanwhile I decided to check the five dahlias that had not sprouted - all of them were rotten! Killed by kindness - too much watering.
Then I repotted Rose Cutie Pie into a bigger pot. It had been looking rather sad but perhaps this will perk it up.

 

I have spent the whole afternoon clearing and weeding my little vegetable spot, where I will grow my various beans and courgettes later on. Two flexitubs full of grass, dandelions, docks and buttercups have been added to the compost bin. The Daubenton's Kale plant I ordered on Ebay arrived yesterday, so that got planted out too.

Don't you hate it when you lose your favourite tool. Mine was a little vintage hand fork with twisted tines, that I found at the local car boot sale. I lost it whilst weeding last weekend, and was hoping it would show itself today, but no luck. So I've been on Ebay looking for a twin, and luckily there were several. I've had to "fork" out a tenner though. I shall keeping looking at the car boot sales and snap up any I spot.

@katecat58 I thought my two potted dahlias had rotted - my finger went straight through a bit of tuber that was showing at the surface. But they are both sprouting now.

 

None of my courgettes or Turks turban have appeared, so I suspect critters.
I have sown more in small pots, popped them in poly bags and hung them from a hook 4ft up on the greenhouse bracing frame.
It deterred the little bar stewards last year. They'll need to be Olympic gymnasts to get to them this year.

 

Mine are on the compost heap now @Escarpment.

 

Thanks, I spent a while doing similar. Sifted the nasty little things (approx 60 ) out one small handful at a time, then put the soil into the borders.

Fresh soil into the pot, and the Acer is now happily planted up

 

First gardening job today after 3 weeks convalescence (strictly enforced by Mrs LS!). My tomatoes were virtually climbing out of their small pots and already had several flowers so they've now gone into their forever tubs in the greenhouse. Can't believe how quickly they've grown this year, although I've sort of lost track of time these last few weeks.

 

I'm thinking ahead. I want to produce a decent display of bulbs for next spring, but don't want to disturb any of the perennials that will be growing.
If I purchased literally dozens of smaller pots, (which I could move around at will), and planted bulbs in those, how, and where, could I store these once the bulbs had finished? Would it be okay to leave the bulbs in the pots all year, in a dark corner of the garden, or should I just get rid of them and buy fresh bulbs each year?

 

As soon as your new one arrives, the old one will reappear @Escarpment . Alternatively, it will stay hidden long enough for the wooden handel to rot, which is what one of mine did

 

Wouldn’t it be easier to grow them in your pots and then plant them out, where you want them, next Spring @Fourmerkland ?