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22/3/2017

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Did I call this lawn? Those 'weeds' are cat's ears (second photo) and I don't mind them, in fact I want them for the meadowy look, but that moss!  I thought I could leave it for a year but there will be hardly any grass there by next year. I will scarify it in April (good exercise!).

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The mini meadow usually gets cut late July or August but I never did find the energy for it last year. Strimming it is first on the list and I will pay the man who put up the greenhouse to do it. The proceeds from the last big painting I sold are earmarked for garden help.  :-)

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The patio/seating area is really important to me. 15 minutes with a bicarbonate of soda and vinegar mix, a cloth and the hose got rid of the algae... ....though it was too cold to sit down to drink the coffee.

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The sitting area is on gravel. I let lots of things self-seed there (that 'relaxed look' you will be hearing a lot about!)  It's not difficult after rain to take out the surplus. It is full of quaking grass and after they got soaked with the hose as I rinsed off the table I potted a few up and put them in the greenhouse along with the sweet peas in their root trainers.

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Snow all around, blue tits checking out the bird boxes and the first seeds- night scented stock - sown on Saturday and up on Wednesday!

If you too are a gardener, what are the first couple of items on your list of wants and needs, and have you decided what is needed to get them ready for the new season?
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Mary
22/3/2017 03:30:43 pm

I am not a true gardener...yet. I hope with retirement and no longer having to endure 10-12 hour work days, that I will finally have time to garden and spruce up our yard. We have about an acre and are about to fence in about a quarter of it for our dog. So I will really need to think about the layout for plantings. WIll have to go back to the garden design plans you laid out some time back. In the short term, I hope to at least refresh the front border gardens with a mix of annuals, perennials and some new azeala bushes (our old ones are simply worn out). Our hot/humid summers are really tough on plants and grass.

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Gail
23/3/2017 01:49:42 am

I have a few area devoted to flowers, perrenials and annuals. My yard is surrounded by massive oak trees whose shade combines with high humidity (tidewater Virginia USA) so my lawn is a tumble of moss varieties and grass. Did I mention all the creeks? There's no fighting the moist so I learn to " love" the moss

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Freda
23/3/2017 03:36:04 pm

The more I hear of your gardens in extreme climates the more grateful i am for our mild and wet temperate climate here on the west coast of Scotland....

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