Solo Saturday Slog!

 It's pretty unusual for me to have a Saturday alone in the garden but Chris was away urgently planting bareroot copper beeches.  I actually finished my greenhouse clear up by sorting out the corner underneath/behind the lemon tree - not exactly easy access but I won the battle!

My next challenge was to prune a young apple tree - a Lord Hindlip on to which a Bramley was grafted about 3 years ago.  Both grafts successfully grew and are now quite strong.  Pruning was hardly difficult but managing the steps on uneven sloping ground definitely was!!

 

That done, I trimmed the flagpole Yew which was missed earlier then onto the Senecio - as we call it.  I think it's actually Brachyglottis sunshine.  Anyway, it's meant to be a ringed doghnut shape in which Sinful Cynthia stands or rather flaunts!  I know Chris would have done a better job!  

A major tidy up of pots and containers was next - trimming the Erigeron karvinskianus, ditching dead cyclamens (all victims of heavy frosts), removing dead scented Nemesias and, after another trip to Newent Plant Centre, planting a new Hellebore nigra in the gap left in the dragon pot by last year's Skimmia (which now happily resides in a border). Note the height of the narcissi and it's still only January.