What's happening in your garden today?

[Sean Regan]

First sighting of a hedgehog this year!

I checked the camera tonight. Hadn't before as none of the food had been eaten. But if it's "our" hedgehog he's been out for a few days. First photos on the camera were five days ago.

But it looked quite large. So it might not be the one that was in the house under the azaleas.





On the videos, it did stick its head in the entrance, but didn't try to go in. Maybe it thought the hole was too small.
Mind you, the food pellets have been in there for nearly two weeks. So I took a hacksaw to it and sawed off a few inches of the entrance tube, to make it slightly less than half the original length.





I've left a few pellets on the brick in front of the entrance as an incentive.






I've done the same with the feeder at the bottom of the garden






So maybe, this will make a difference.

I'm going to leave the camera where it is to see if this works. If it does, I'll train it on the house under the azaleas to see if it's "our," hedgehog that's been on the patio.

 

[Meadowlark]

Dianthus beginning to bloom...

 

[Logan]

Hubby cut the front grass which is a lot bigger than the back. I watered the polyanthus again, watered the blueberry pots, dug up polyanthus seedlings that were growing in the pavement and put them into cell trays, I've dug up 72. Sowed some corn chamomile seeds into cell trays and put them outside.

 

[big rockpile]

Potting some more Petunias. Starting some more Petunias and Coleus.

Got some seed in today Court Jester and State Fair Zinnias figure they will look good by the road.

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[Logan]

Watering and watering.

 

[Sean Regan]

My hydrangeas arrived late yesterday afternoon, so this morning I potted them up and put them on the patio steps. For the last few years, I've been putting plants in plastic tubs that fit neatly inside our many Apta ceramic ones. Someone on a message board mentioned it as a good idea. It means I can ring the changes and also there's some air between the two walls of the tubs as a layer of insulation.





I've stuck a bit of the pots with the labels on it in each of the tubs.

I've taken the hebes out of the troughs in front of the teahouse.




I gave the troughs a bit of a clean. They won't need re-painting.



New turf doing well, I'm still watering it twice a day.




My mixed dahlia tubers arrived this morning. I potted them up this afternoon and left them on the bench under the window in the shed.





My intention was to put these in four plastic tubs in the troughs. But I'm debating whether or not to put the troughs back where they were, as it had become impossible to pass between the acer and the troughs to get to the side of the tea-house and the hedgehog house. It'll mean I will be walking on the same part of the lawn on a daily basis. Not a good idea.

The hebes are temporarily residing in "the alley of shame." Our drive where, apart from two myleen clematis, roses "out of favour," spend their time.
I'm not sure what i'll do with these hebes, there's nowhere else to put them.



Two more at the far end.

 

[big rockpile]

It is to do something next few days that we haven't seen for awhile. RAIN!

Wanting to do something with our Lawn and Pasture.

Told my wife before it started I was wanting to put down grass seed. They decided 100 pounds would be enough.

We put the hundred pounds on the Lawn just before it started.

Told my wife we would have to buy more for the Pasture.

Kentucky 31 Fescue. I know but that is all I could get here.

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