A slight error...
A slight error of judgment - left four bags of stinky horse manure in my car (windows shut tight), where they happily percolated in the sunshine for two days. Oh dear.
Finally today I removed them and started spreading the first bags onto the Hump Garden. A swarm of grateful blowflies appeared from nowhere and buzzed excitedly around the ground. This cannot be good garden hygiene! Tried to cover everything with compost - not very successfully.
A well Manured Garden
Oh well. Manure is a natural fragrance, after all (though not very pleasant for passengers in my car). Just hope my dogs don't decide to roll in it. Obviously I prefer my horse manure to be 'well-rotted'.
Rosa Moyesii Hips
Major weeding...
Crawled off into the middle of the garden and did some major weeding instead. Old Campion pulled out, clover clumps uprooted, a patch of big bearded Irises dug out. I trimmed the Scrophularia and the deep pink Phloxes. I dead-headed dahlias and roses. Must remember to dig out the scrambling white one (Nozomi), which is ill-positioned, right by the path.
Careful!
Had to be careful to duck around the canes of Rosa Moyesii Geranium. What a thug! It is very thorny, has put on unbelievable growth, and could become another one of my gross miscalculations (in other words, a big mistake). Oops. It is draping itself all over the Choisya limelight shrubs. They're tough enough, I guess.
Tuesday 24th March
Today I cleaned more of the Hump Garden's interior. My targets were further along from the flowery section - two big green Phormiums (dead leaves and old flowering stems trimmed), more dahlias (dead-headed), and the Lamium (which had escaped again, as Lamium does, and needed to be removed).
Also dug out one over-sized Anemanthele grass, uncovered a white Flower Carpet rose and a struggling dahlia. Plenty of spaces just across the path for these to be replanted. Now there's more room for the scrambling rose Special Gift (which could also turn into a thug, oops).
Aargh!
To top off a successful day I booked an appointment with my dentist (have been putting this off). Aargh! And I have lit the bonfire and burnt all my mess. Perfect!