March 2016

 

 

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This diary is a summary of our garden activities. The links are to blog posts that often give more detail.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This rose is lucky to be indoors

Spring has sprung?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Shrubs are coming into life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Pulmonaria flowers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Visit to bird feeding area by a male sparrowhawk.

Snow, rain and sparrowhawk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Peach and nectarine starting to flower - more pollinating

Giving it my best shot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Crocuses making most of brief periods of sunshine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lots of mini daffodils flowering

To brighten our day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Autumn v spring planting - review of last year's onions

 

 

 

 

 

 

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11

 

 

Day out at East Lancashire heritage railway and Burrs Country Park

A day out and a bit of pruning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12

 

 

Pruned gooseberries and jostaberries

Tidied some strawberries

Cut down conifer

Harvested some vegetables

Fruity business

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13

 

Planted shallot and onion sets in modules

Sowed salad leaves and pea shoots

Moved raised bed

Set ocas to chit

Cut back late flowering clematis

Planted primroses

Heavy lifting day

The garden's turn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Replanted the heather being pushed out of the pot by bulb shoots

Doing it as the experts suggest

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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15

 

 

Camellia beginning to flower

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Brassicas arrived from Marshalls

Brilliant then naff

Against all odds - review of last year's brassicas

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Moved cold frames into final positions

Sowed some radish, lettuce and spring onions in raised bed

Cut back buddleia and the climbing roses that needed it Tidied up more perennials

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Harvested salad leaves sown late autumn and second lot sown last week are beginning to germinate'

Poulton's Pride rhubarb bought last year is shooting

Up and running

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Narcissi Bulbocodium beginning to flower

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Trimmed climbing roses

Cut back ferns

Cleared nesting boxes

Greased bottom of peach. apricot and nectarine trunks to deter slugs

Sticky fingers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Primroses have produced lots of seedlings.

Nature does it best

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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25

 

 

Finished tidying strawberries

trimmed grass paths

Weeded a fruit bed

Prepared some beds for planting

Update from the strawberry patch

Teasing us

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

28

 

 

Onions have begun to shoot.

Poulton's Pride rhubarb us shooting too

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Immature fruits have set in the apricot

Stage one - success?

 

 

 

 

 

 

30

 

 

Magnolia flowers are opening

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

29

 

 

Camellia has lots of flowers

Portrait of a camellia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are lots of flowers on the daphne and pieris.

The aucuba now has lots of red berries

Stained cold frames

A touch of stain

 

 

 

 

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