Busy Busy…..

A very nice day today, warm sunshine, a gentle breeze…..
I’ve mown the lawn, done a spot of gardening and cleared out the spring stuff from the window box, plants will go in there next month, found a plastic wall hanging container that I’ve put up on the front wall and blagged three plants from a neighbour and planted them in it…. plus had a large plateful of chicken balti for my dinner…..
All the doors are open plus some windows to air the place through so all in all a very constructive day…..

 

The Box…..

What I originally thought was an empty window box……

 

‘Pottering Time’

Managed a lie-in this morning for a change, very welcome I can say, trouble is I’m now back into the cycle of sleep which usually ends up with me being nocturnal….. guess I’m just ‘bats’

Anyway, back to the title…… took some garbage out to the bin earlier and found it was quite mild if a tad cloudy outside so decided it was time to make the most of it and get some tidying done around the garden, an hour or more later, pruning, raking dead leaves etc all done, even got rid of a holly bush opposite my back door, I say ‘bush’ but it was far from it, the bloody thing had been allowed to grow wild so was over four feet high with four or five offshoots every nine inches or so, making it a prickly leggy nuisance…… its now a stump, two inches thick and just above ground level….
The rest of the pruning was mostly cutting back roses and suchlike to make them tidier, I’m glad the previous occupant went for a garden that was easy to maintain but why she had to have 90% of the plants with thorns I will never know!
Anyway, its done now, I’ve found snowdrops hiding under leaf litter and lots of various shoots breaking ground, it’ll be nice to see what they eventually produce…
Tomorrow if its dry is a quick tidy up of the window box and a potted lavender out front, the window box already has numerous shoots coming up despite the fact that when I first moved here it appeared to be just full of dead soil and weeds!
So…. when I get a new battery charger for my camera batteries I’ll post some photo’s, I’ll leave it until the shoots are more advanced and I’ll at least have half a clue whats growing…. in the meantime I’m ‘happily knackered’