Sunday, 20 April 2014

Coriander, clumps and chocolate




Most of my garden days are based purely on when it takes my fancy. 
Today was different though....I needed to plant the tubes of herbs into the Kitchen Garden. These ones in pots are fine but the tubes dry out very quickly.
The Kitchen Garden will have to be relocated when our building starts, but for now it will be their home.


We have added huge amounts of compost to the bed and each time I dug a hole there today, a worm  appeared.....very happy about that!





I also uncovered another clump of daffodils poking their noses through. I dug them up and separated them too. This time there were 145..!!! No wonder they had stopped blooming. That little space is definitely too small for 145 bulbs. Once again that would have started out as a group of 5.




Not long after the fire, this clump of white belladonna lilies ( also known as Naked Ladies ) started to throw out some green stems, in spite of being cooked and black.




This is not a good photo of the glorious creamy white flowers but as you can see, there were only 6 blooms. They are too tightly packed to bloom properly just like the daffodils.



 So today I lifted this clump too, separated the bulbs and replanted them around the rose garden( in groups of 5). There were 45 of them!!!! All from just one original bulb from Bill's Aunty Betty.


We have had our little watch dogs here for Easter...well, one watchdog anyway... the other one seems to drift off on the job!

And speaking of Easter........



I think we all start with the ears don't we?????


Oh the sheer joy of it...!!



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