Hello June...
Prosperity in June?
Hello June. Can I suggest you've got a bit confused with the calendar? Or even the hemisphere? Your very first day - temperature nineteen degrees Celsius - is much too warm for the first day of winter. Dare I say unseasonal?
Cleaning up...
Today in the garden will not be much different to yesterday, or the yesterday before that, etc. Because I'm cleaning up. Mess, leaves, weeds, ferns - you name it, I'm cleaning it up.
Two hours later...
Inside for morning coffee and a recharge. Have found the messiest of the messy places in my garden, and am doing my best to rectify things. It's the interior of the Jelly Bean Border - haven't actually been in here for three or four years. Oops. Six years, I checked my old journal, in which I claimed it was relatively weed-free. What a difference six years makes!
Edge of the Jelly Bean Border - WInter
Welcome back to the wilderness, dear Border! Welcome to the healthy Prunus and Viburnum suckers, all the buried gum tree bark, and the pesky rogue Periwinkle. A sad welcome to one rather dead rhododendron. Sorry you didn't make it - an absolutely stupid place to plant you.
Much later...
How good? Six wobbly, overflowing barrow loads of mess removed from the Jelly Bean Border, and still more to go. My goodness there was a lot of escaped periwinkle in there!
New Camellia :- Planted nine new Camellias in the Pond Paddock Garden last spring.
Was multi-tasking - also spreading horse manure around the new Camellias and the beautiful golden leaf Philadelphus in the Pond Paddock Garden, just across the path. These shrubs deserve the best. Also had the hose on, giving them a good drenching.
Just as the light was fading I lit the bonfire, dragged over the last of the iris confusa mess and some dried Phormium leaves, and burnt the lot. Then we went out for an early family dinner. A lovely end to a lovely, mild day.