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November 2011
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November 28th
We did get the first 'Proper' frost of the winter
last night, down to minus 2.3c
This afternoon one of our near neighbours had a sofa delivery from a well
advertised supplier on tv. About an hour later we also had a delivery. Ours was
56 bags of John Innes formula potting compost on a pallete !!.
On arrival I said to the driver "You have got some dirt for us ?", he
replied that some time ago his boss had told him off for describing compost as
dirt. His boss said that "Dirt is what you get under your nails".
We had to stop the traffic on the busy main road, to enable the delivery driver
to get the fork lift off the back of the lorry, and bring the pallete across the
road.
Within 3/4 of an hour I had managed to wheelbarrow them all in to Lyn's
shed and my garage.
We still have to order in another 50 bags of a different type of compost, I
think we will be struggling to find room for it all soon.
November 27th
We are expecting the first proper frost of the
winter tonight, at 6pm it was +4 centigrade. We finally cut down the Salvia
involucrata this morning and wrapped it up for the winter, despite their being
lots of flowers on it still.
This afternoon we did a 4 mile walk across the common to Longham lake and back
in clear skies and a cool breeze.
We are expecting a delivery of 50 sacks of John Innes compost tomorrow
afternoon, so we have been making room for places to store it. We still have to
order a similar amount of general potting compost from another supplier.
November 20th
Just a few tidy up jobs in the garden today,
cleaning the conservatory roof to let as much light in, moving some of the
Echium pininana plants that are in pots, under cover. We grew them from seed in
January, they are now about a metre tall, and hopefully in Spring we will pot
them into bigger pots and they should flower.
Still very mild here, with a few Butterflies flitting around.
Some of the plants still flowering
Salvia involucrata
Verbena under the porch at our front door.
A rose thinking about
opening
Brugmansia sanguinea in the
conservatory
November 19th
This morning was spent in the garden, up a ladder,
removing a large lower branch on our silver birch. The branch was hanging over
our incoming telephone wire, so that made it much harder to remove. Anyway after
using ropes to stop the branch from falling down on to the wire while I was
sawing the branch off, all is well.
While clearing up, I noticed the sun shining through the Miscanthus sinensis
'Morning Light'
The last of the leaves soon to drop on the Prunus,
and the seed heads of Clematis serratifolia
November 16th
Well it is a month since I last posted anything on our
blog, I had better not try to make any excuses.
All the tender plants are now protected for the winter, and the Brugmansia
cuttings we took when we cut them down to get them into our conservatory, are
rooting into water. They will soon have to be potted up, we need between 80 and
100 of them to survive for next years plant sales.
We are opening the garden again next year, unfortunately the entrance fee into
the garden has had to go up 50p to £3.00, still a cheap morning or afternoon
out though.
I have posted our open days for 2012 on our home and garden open dates pages.
The leaves on our silver birch tree have just about stopped dropping, Lyn has
been clearing them from the front lawn every day for about two weeks now. It
looks a bit bare round the garden compared to the summer.
Several Butterflies trying to find food, this one
has had a hard life. Mind you they don't live long anyway.
Looking for a home for winter
Lyn planting
bulbs
Still a few flowers surviving in the back garden.
