Making the most of a lovely calm and dry day on Friday in the nursery. The last of the strimming is done, thank you David. I also planted some wild flowers in the orchard to get a new meadow established there. Plants included red campion, fox and cubs, knapweed, ox eye daisies and spotted orchids. I also sowed yellow rattle seed earlier in autumn which will help keep the competing grasses under control.
I was kept company by Robin and if anyone lost their car in the herb garden this year, we have it safely parked up in the office for you.
Lunch from
Coltmans on Peebles High Street
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| Dinner with Ben and Cheryl in Irvine last Thursday |
Off to Kelso on Saturday for an antique clearance sale and some christmas 
shopping, finally feel I'm getting somewhere with it. Nice lunch and Maisie befriended everyone with her christmas jumper on.  |
| Lunch in Kelso |
A wee green glimpse of the Northern lights one evening
It was great to have Dan and Betty visit on Sunday, nice to have some one else entertain Maisie lol, a relaxing afternoon chatting and dinner together.
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| Great to have Ian visit on Monday, a lovely meal out in the Tontine with a foggy walk home. |
Its that time, to gather all the ingredients of my door wreaths and decorations together and get them made. The holly and ivy are from our front garden and the lichen covered sticks foraged from the local wood where they'd blown down in the last storm, everything else I keep from year to year to re-use. Its a relaxing couple of hours spent in my potting shed playing christmas music away from all the hectic of christmas organising.
Lunch at very dog friendly Lass of Gowrie
I was in to the nursery on Friday to lift the leaves in the sales area and pot up some new stock. The leaf lifting is traditionally my last job in the nursery for the year and signifies the end of the year for me. Some years it doesn't happen until January, as you know.. .. weather. Meanwhile the admin trundles on when I'm not in the nursery 
So a good feeling getting that task scored off the list 
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| Robin keeping me company again |
New plants under the Acer griseum
in its new home in the woodland garden
These new plants will eventually be big enough to propagate and add three new varieties to our stock list. I planted Geum 'Bremner's Nectarine' because you can never have enough Geums these days. I had Chrysosplenium macrophyllum in my last garden and loved its evergreen leaves and wonderful pink and white flowers early in the year, so its great to introduce it to the nursery garden (and of course I did buy one for my garden at home too). Lastly I put in Scopolia carniolica zwanenburg, another fantastic woodland plant. I love Scopolia and we already have Scopolia Hlandnikiana (S. carniolica var. brevifolia) planted elsewhere in the woodland garden.
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