I cant believe that my wife Hannah is now due in 8 weeks. The first 7 months have gone very fast.
Shes suffering with very bad back pain, and excessive exhaustion.
Its quite an eye opener feel you baby move and wriggle, and sometimes see a foot shape pushing out of Hannah's tummy.
The baby's room is nearly done, as is the rest of the house as we now have all the carpets finished. :-)
The kitchen is nearly finished too, having had the dishwasher fitted at last, although not plumbed in just yet, and there's still a bit of jigging about to do cos the fridge door hits the wall, but that should be OK soon.
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
Rhododendrons
For some reason, 2 of my rhodo's have flowered with just a single flower.
I thought they had more buds on them a few weeks ago, but there don't seem to be any now.
Maybe this is because its their first season in their pots?
I thought they had more buds on them a few weeks ago, but there don't seem to be any now.
Maybe this is because its their first season in their pots?
Monday, 25 May 2009
Garden
Finally got ALL my clematis planted.
Now have 12 of them, mostly in pots as my garden only has 2 inches of fake topsoil from the badly laid turf, and then its either rubble or discarded building blocks from the new house, or dense waterlogged clay.
My plan is to therefore use some red bricks as low-key edging, and just gravel the whole garden. This will also negate the fact that as well as not growing properly, the lawn is soaking wet, as the rain just sits on top of the heavy clay areas below the balcony.
This job will have to wait for more funds though.
Ive done something different with some of the clematis. Ive put two Evergreens (prune code 1's) in the same half barrel (White Abundance and Cirhosa Freckles). They will not need pruning, but also not be able to be moved once they establish. Its a bit of an experiment, but I have no choice. I have placed them in an elbow of the garden fence so each can grow up and out along opposite directions. (I need to get some Trellis for the left side)
My Nelly Moser, The President, and Niobe have flowered!
Just 2 to 3 blooms so far, but for all new plants this spring, I'm very pleased they're happy so far.
Ive had a lot of little brown insects, same shape and size as greenfly, but medium brown color, on my other clematis, so Ive sprayed them all with a general purpose bug and disease killer by Bayer. We'll see how that goes. They also appeared on my Roses, Rhododendrons, and Tulips which I also sprayed.
Now have 12 of them, mostly in pots as my garden only has 2 inches of fake topsoil from the badly laid turf, and then its either rubble or discarded building blocks from the new house, or dense waterlogged clay.
My plan is to therefore use some red bricks as low-key edging, and just gravel the whole garden. This will also negate the fact that as well as not growing properly, the lawn is soaking wet, as the rain just sits on top of the heavy clay areas below the balcony.
This job will have to wait for more funds though.
Ive done something different with some of the clematis. Ive put two Evergreens (prune code 1's) in the same half barrel (White Abundance and Cirhosa Freckles). They will not need pruning, but also not be able to be moved once they establish. Its a bit of an experiment, but I have no choice. I have placed them in an elbow of the garden fence so each can grow up and out along opposite directions. (I need to get some Trellis for the left side)
My Nelly Moser, The President, and Niobe have flowered!
Just 2 to 3 blooms so far, but for all new plants this spring, I'm very pleased they're happy so far.
Ive had a lot of little brown insects, same shape and size as greenfly, but medium brown color, on my other clematis, so Ive sprayed them all with a general purpose bug and disease killer by Bayer. We'll see how that goes. They also appeared on my Roses, Rhododendrons, and Tulips which I also sprayed.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
