Building a garden from scratch is easier said than done, but for 15 years that is exactly what we did at Ravendale House.
It was often hard work, but we loved it and the result was our 'blank canvas' of 1998 was transformed into a beautiful and productive garden, which I hope you have enjoyed reading about in this blog.
But tide and time wait for no man and sad to say I am no longer able to give the garden the attention it deserves. It would break my heart to see it fall into disrepair, so the time has come to move on.
I will continue this blog in memory of 15 happy years gardening, but I don't have a garden at the moment so will start by telling the story of the last 9 months, so if you want to read the story from the beginning, please click here.
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How are you supposed to get anything done in these temperatures? It’s freezing, and that’s during the day, I shudder to think what it’s like in the middle of the night. Thank goodness for central heating!
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Among the plants we brought with us when we moved here, were several clematis. Unfortunately, most haven’t done well, in fact of the 10 or so varieties we brought only 3 have thrived and prospered.
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Today I put the seed potatoes in the conservatory to sprout or ‘chit’ as it is known in gardening circles. However, it is rather cold at the moment, particularly at night and I don’t want them to freeze, so I will cover them with newspaper each evening as the temperature drops.
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Today I received an acknowledgement from Suttons Seeds for my plant order, so that’s OK. In fact it’s even better than OK, as they don’t appear to have charged me for p&p!
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Yesterday we bought our seed potatoes and onion sets. This is an annual ritual which for me represents the start of the gardening year.
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In the early hours of Wednesday 27th of February 2008, the UK experienced it’s worst earthquake since 1984, measuring 5.2 on the richter scale and it’s epicentre was in Ludford only a few miles from where we live.
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My first job every morning is to put the bird food out onto the feeder. I do this even before I have my own breakfast. It’s a fairly short and well ordered routine that takes me a couple of minutes.
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Well the snow that was forecast yesterday has arrived overnight. The weathermen had a severe weather warning out for heavy snowfalls and said there would be 2cm – 5cm at lower levels and up to 15cm on higher ground. I still work in old money so for me that is a worst case scenario of 6″.
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Today we had another beautiful, bright and sunny afternoon, but oh so very, very windy. I have to confess to being a bit of a fair weather gardener, and I certainly don’t like wind.
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Whilst I was pottering around in the garden yesterday, I remembered a weed that should really have made my top 5. The reason I forgot it the other day was that I’ve had moderate success at removing it from the garden, and it disappears in winter anyway. Out of sight out of mind.