Putting the gardens to bed for the winter

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The last few weeks have been a flurry of activity across all my gardens including my own.


Jobs included

• planting tulip and allium bulbs (luckily only about 100 or so this year, replacing the tulips in the small town garden, adding some in myn own garden and of course planting bulbs in a newly created front garden)
• updating the wire supports for climbing roses and replacing them with nylon wire and gripples both in my own garden, the rectory and the school
• prune all climbing roses and tying in of stems on rambling roses
• final trim of lawn edges
• gather up leaves and compost them in leaf cages
• final weed of veg plots
• take out all spent veg and harvest last peppers, tomatoes, courgettes, etc
• pick pumpkins and leave to ripen in a sheltered sunny spot
• herbaceous borders have been weeded and mulched, depending on the client with spent straw from straw bale planters, Strulch, chipped bark or cocoa shell mulch

I am still picking dahlias and hedychiums; so far we have escaped any serious frosts at night time.

I will be off shortly for an extended break.