Gardening day 3

I went down to the bottom of the garden today.  I wanted to work in the sun as although sunny, there is a nasty biting cold wind today.  At 2.30pm, this is the bit that’s in the sun.  The sun had moved by the time I took these pictures, about 1 hour later.  I did a bit of tidying and cutting down, clearing dead leaves from the yellow and green phormium, cutting back the ‘flower carpet’ rose (which always gets bindweed through it), and tidying up the agapanthus.

Not sure whether you can tell from this picture, but the border slopes down to the grass.  It gets very muddy and sticky towards the bottom, and the soil falls down the border!  Consequently, there is usually no proper delineation between the border and the lawn.  So a job I should do every year is to cut the border using my half moon tool.   I have made a rather wiggly start!  I should get out there again when it’s a bit drier and straighten up my line.

Spring is very definately on the way now, look at these gorgeous little crocuses!