Its been a busy couple of weeks in and out of the nursery, no wonder the year is whizzing by. Autumn colours are sneaking into the gardens and the evenings are getting cooler.
Sometimes it takes a while to come up with an idea for something in the garden, sometimes its immediate. In this case 8 years is probably excessive, especially for me
If you've been to the nursery you'll have seen our cast iron pig feeder, indeed several folks have tried to buy it off me, but I knew eventually inspiration would strike.
So I've planted it up with 3 different types of ferns and "Mind Your own Business". There are holes drilled in it but it does retain some water, but these plants like a bit of damp so I'm hoping they will do well.
In the garden at home this week, despite all the sh*ty weather there's still lots of colour
and lots going on.
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| Lilium 'Black Beauty' |
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| Echinacea and Liatris |
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| In the front garden |
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| Scabiosa 'Stafa' |
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| Hydrangea 'Annabelle' |
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| A view across summer fields |
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There is nothing more cheery in our wee
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My auricula primulas have come home. After several years being stored at the nursery they are now at home on their new plant stand.
This week the weathers been very varied again but it doesn’t stop the work. I’ve been potting up plants from the tunnel that Fiona and Isabel potted in spring. They’ve been put outside for next year’s stock, this will be the last plants potted to stay outside this year as the weather gets colder. At the other end of production, I’ve been doing a lot of propagation again this week, cuttings, rooted pieces potted into 9cm pots and seed gathered. So as plants come out the tunnel more go back in the other end 
I also got all four hedges cut – the rugosa rose in the native garden and the mixed native hedge opposite, then the copper beech hedge in the railway garden / herb garden and lastly the Thuya hedge in the orchard 
I took out the expanding Begenia in the old wheel barrow and planted it in the woodland garden and replaced it with some Aquilegia saximontana. Both should be happy in their new homes 
The purple hazel has put on quite a lot of growth this year, I realised earlier in the week it was a good six feet over the track, so a hair cut and lifting the canopy has worked a treat and the plants underneath are not being crowded by the branches
Gardens are never finished, there’s always tweaking, replanting and thining out as the plantings age. I started this week to asses the oldest plantings in the nursery gardens, making a note of plants that need reduced in size, removed or spaces needing filled 
And finally, enjoying some rare sun and warmth. I’ve been feeling under the weather this week so am looking forward to my days off. I can't believe we are in September already and there’s still two months of busy busy in the nursery before we close for winter and lots of planning to do…… 
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| Pretty ink and wash flowers with metalic paints |
It was an absolute pleasure to take Betty out for lunch for her birthday last week
A very young looking 80, we had a good blether and catch with some great food but no view of the bridges 
Thanks to Thirty Knots for a lovely lunch and candle 
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Nearly 2 months later I've finally go another bit of painting done on the front of the house! This year's weather has been so rubbish for getting things done outdoors, we thought we'd have all the painting done on the front of the house this year, and certainly by now! Still got the walls, kitchen and bathroom window sills and the facias which it turns out are rotten and will have to be replaced
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