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Here are six highlights from my gardening week.
1) [Right] Continuing previous weeks’ theme of neglected fruit trees and bushes, there are buds emerging on two pear trees trained as cordons at the bottom of the garden. The varieties are Doyenne du Comice and Beurre Hardy although I don’t think they fruited last year. They are rather choked by weeds and a rampaging sage (of which more anon) but I’m hoping some TLC might revive them.
2) [Left] Talking of things emerging, there are the first signs that a hosta I was given last year has survived the winter. I can’t remember the variety as I have the annoying habit of discarding plant labels on the basis that I will easily recall what it was. And I never do
3) [Right] It always surprises me how plants can flourish in seemingly inhospitable places. This grape hyacinth is managing to grow in the crack between two paving slabs.
4) [Below, left] Some early tulips are adding a glorious bit of colour to the garden.
5) [Bottom left] The aforementioned rampaging sage although it does give off the most lovely scent when you brush past it.
6) [Below, right] No, definitely not my greenhouse at the moment – it’s currently empty – but a reminder to myself of what it looked like a few years ago. It’s not been used since for a variety of reasons, including just too many other things taking priority and what I can only describe as a ‘gardening slump’. My aim is to get it back into operation this year.
Enjoy your garden or outside space this week.
1) Continuing last’s week theme of neglected fruit bushes, I thought this gooseberry bush [right] was dead but it is showing a few signs of life so I’ve been trying to clear the weeds from around it without disturbing the roots. I think the variety is Invicta.
2) This pretty pink primula [left] has somehow made itself at home in the middle of the lawn although it has been rather nibbled by something.
3) This rosemary bush [right] is thriving and has been flowering for a couple of months now despite the fact I cut it back quite hard which you’re not usually advised to do.
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