Tuesday, 16 October 2018
We began by buying more bulb food at Dennis Company and then planting bulbs at the…
Depot Restaurant
We battled our way through the still tall and blooming garden to plant the bulbs.
I wanted an after, showing much more space, but we both forgot to take one. The goldenrod was all flopped open so had to be trimmed to make room for bulbs.
The weather was uncomfortably hot. Fortunately, our next job was in a garden that has a feeling of coolness.
The Shelburne Hotel
I sent Allan up to the decks with an assortment of species tulips and narcissi, little ones, to go in three of the large planters.
I don’t know the story behind that! (Later: frog lives in a planter on the center deck and jumped onto the tool belt. After posing for a picture it hopped back to its planter, sticking to the side.)
While I finished planting the last of a rather huge number of bulbs, Allan watered the entire garden. Watering in mid October … Is that the new trend from now on? Rain is not expected for another week so it had to be done.
I got some of pretty much all my favourite bulbs for the Shelburne, just wait and see!
I would love to have had a meal at the pub. Instead, I had to sort bulbs for tomorrow till about ten PM. Allan kept me going with a cheesy melt and a fine cuppa.
Sorting involves more standing than sitting and makes me tireder than actually planting the bulbs.
I only have time to read one chapter a night of Marion Cran’s final memoir, Hagar’s Garden. Reading a chapter at a time is diluting the emotional impact, which means less weeping over it on my part. And it is delaying the moment when I come to the end of her story.
That pic of you sorting bulbs makes me tired — I can’t imagine how tired you feel being in the midst of it! Such a joy to see the beauty of the gardens, though, and the frogs. I even enjoyed seeing a cup of British tea.
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Thank you.
Very tired!
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love the little bog garden
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It was all native blackberry before. The roots are still in there. I love it, too.
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Oh! That frog looks like H. R. Pufnstuf.
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Builders’ tea, just the thing.
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Because Britain wasn’t built on chamomile.
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Not much fun trying to plant bulbs in a garden packed with perennials, especially towering ones. But oh come spring how spectacular!
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I hope the show starts in Feb with tommies crocus and Iris reticulata.
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