What are we doing in the garden 2025

Volunteer day at Capel Manor yesterday. After some leaf sweeping and a little pruning to let more light onto a low growing pinus, we then tackled a large ivy growth that was smothering a conifer (can't remember the cultivar for now). It's a bit of a long saga, but to be brief, they are redeveloping an area at the back of the Japanese garden. I know there is a lot about how valuable ivy is especially for late pollinated but sometimes it just get out of hand and swamps other things .
I should have taken a before and after photo but from the second pic you get an idea how much there was. You can see from the angle of the tree how much it was affected. I should say originally it was resting on a fence which has been removed

 

Hi,

I set myself a realistic date in which to finish clearing the couch grass from the middle meadow it being Christmas.

I've just come indoors having completed the job knowing any remaining couch grass popping its head up next springtime will easily be removed then I can start planting shrubs etc.

It was never an obsession @pete just the way I was always taught to do a job; plan it and complete it before moving on to the next job only concentrating on one job at a time exactly as I did a short while ago when I replaced the front porch.


The grass pathways will be redone next springtime. Hard work and determination has always worked for me.


8 bags of couch grass rhizomes already found a new home at the tip but I'll riddle this lot to retrieve good soil to scatter on top of the side garden which is so poor very little grows in it.

I can now concentrate going around with the hoe; after all it's almost Christmas; hoe; hoe hoe and doing pruning as needed; I'm also now looking forward to some pleasant time in the recording studio.

Kind regards, Col.