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operation green fingers
Apr. 11th, 2014 06:23 pmSpring has sprung and the transformation of my horrible scrubby lawn into a real lawn with proper garden borders is now well and truly underway.
There is still loads to do. Like, the entire lawn. But the border has been dug and many plants have been planted, with more on the way because every time I visit my parents, Mum takes me out into the garden and points out more plants she's been bringing on for me or can split for me. Today we went to the RHS Flower Show in Cardiff and came home laden as usual - I bought a fritillaria, a dicentra, a fuschsia, an aquilegia, a thrift, a poppy and a narcissus, all in the ground already along with the batch I planted last weekend after The Big Dig which created the border (still have a mound of turf to dispose of). Tomorrow the teenagers are being dispatched to me with a bunch more plants from Mum's garden, to likewise go straight in the ground. And I still have a box of bulbs and about a zillion seeds to go in. Then it'll just be a matter of sitting back and waiting for everything to grow.
Oh, and fixing the lawn, of course. It needs cutting - and I don't trust the mower that came with the flat (an electric mower exposed to the elements with only a bit of tarpaulin to protect it? No) so will be borrowing something else instead. And it needs re-seeding, which will come after the mowing. But it'll get there in the end.
But it already looks like a real garden now. I'm happy about that.
I'm taking photos as I go to mark the various stages so I can look back later and see the difference.
There is still loads to do. Like, the entire lawn. But the border has been dug and many plants have been planted, with more on the way because every time I visit my parents, Mum takes me out into the garden and points out more plants she's been bringing on for me or can split for me. Today we went to the RHS Flower Show in Cardiff and came home laden as usual - I bought a fritillaria, a dicentra, a fuschsia, an aquilegia, a thrift, a poppy and a narcissus, all in the ground already along with the batch I planted last weekend after The Big Dig which created the border (still have a mound of turf to dispose of). Tomorrow the teenagers are being dispatched to me with a bunch more plants from Mum's garden, to likewise go straight in the ground. And I still have a box of bulbs and about a zillion seeds to go in. Then it'll just be a matter of sitting back and waiting for everything to grow.
Oh, and fixing the lawn, of course. It needs cutting - and I don't trust the mower that came with the flat (an electric mower exposed to the elements with only a bit of tarpaulin to protect it? No) so will be borrowing something else instead. And it needs re-seeding, which will come after the mowing. But it'll get there in the end.
But it already looks like a real garden now. I'm happy about that.
I'm taking photos as I go to mark the various stages so I can look back later and see the difference.
