More prevarications

Watering this time. The temperature is over 26C each day right now and I haven’t given any of the courtyard plants a soaking for ages. I have been relying on the real rain to do that.

So I was up early and out came the long hose. I don’t need to water any of the established shrubs in the calabert garden, and I don’t want these eragrostis to grow any taller. It’s hard enough to walk through them now.

If I get time next week, I ought to climb into this part of the garden and do a bit of weeding and sorting. I know there are flowering cistus in here, but I can barely see them.   But a big of a lush jungle look seems to be the way these borders are going.

I don’t think you can have a neat and controlled country garden if you don’t have staff.   So I just have to let things go a bit.

But if I was an organised designer, I would move the white centranthus ruber (valerian) plant. It’s just a bit too tall here and hides the cistus behind.

They work well in the shade garden because they compete with the white geraniums that are wild. And tall.

I can never seem to photograph them no matter how early I get up.   But for once I have managed to capture the electric blue of the salvia caradonnas in the herb garden.

The New Dawn roses behind flower like mad which is great. But I need more wire supports behind as they rose is growing faster than I can borrow people and their cordless power drills to add more layers.

Another thing for my list. Learn how to drill into stone myself.

By now it was time to head indoors and attend.   But I did one last thing. More chicken wire around the pergola to accommodate the honeysuckle plants.

I am being optimistic by adding wire to all the uprights for the new plants that only went in two months ago.   I figure that while I have the wire and the wire cutters and the nails, it’s best to get it all done.

And there you have my day. Apart from going out to pick peas, marjoram, lettuce and mint for dinner. More watering tomorrow.