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Mar 2023
4:10pm, 17 Mar 2023
100,768 posts
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Hanneke
I haven't planted my onions yet!
Nor my spuds...
So my friend picked them up from the garden centre yesterday. Hoping for a clement day this weekend so I can plant them.
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Mar 2023
4:31pm, 17 Mar 2023
36,694 posts
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Ocelot Spleens
My garlic has been in since November, likewise some onions but they took a massive beating with the weather, so I need some more sets. Waiting a little longer for outside seeds as we still had a hard frost 2 days ago and the soil is cold.
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Mar 2023
4:33pm, 17 Mar 2023
100,770 posts
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Hanneke
My garlic went in in January. Much later than normal but at least it has had some frost to bulb up!
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Mar 2023
5:12pm, 17 Mar 2023
62,934 posts
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Velociraptor
I have a lawn full of fritillaries at the point of flowering  The reticulata irises I buried in another lawn last autumn didn't come to anything.
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Mar 2023
5:26pm, 17 Mar 2023
100,772 posts
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Hanneke
Are both lawns damp? Also reticulatas don't like competition from grass...
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Mar 2023
5:39pm, 17 Mar 2023
17,184 posts
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Garfield
Our camellia tree is in bloom.
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Mar 2023
5:46pm, 17 Mar 2023
18,544 posts
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Cerrertonia
I planted 20 bare root shrubs today - a mix of dogwood, hazel and hawthorn, to form a native species hedge area. Also planted some sea buckthorn shrubs in a sunny area in front of some full grown birch and rowan trees - I like their fruit. Also put up the posts and wires for the raspberries planted a few weeks ago.
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Mar 2023
8:16pm, 18 Mar 2023
22,821 posts
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Red Squirrel
I love fritillaries. That snakes-head one is my favourite thing to see in a garden or indeed anywhere.
Cerrertonia - that sounds lovely. I helped to plant (slit method) the same mix to form a hedge at a local organic farm. I also harvested sea buckthorn at a wildlife trust garden where I used to volunteer - I love that plant too. Your garden must be large, no?
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Mar 2023
8:30pm, 18 Mar 2023
18,549 posts
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Cerrertonia
It's about an acre. About a quarter of it is a walled garden with a lot of nice plants, just needs some work to recover from a few years of neglect. The rest of it was pretty overgrown.
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Mar 2023
8:39pm, 18 Mar 2023
62,943 posts
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Velociraptor
I shall post a photo when the fritillaries flower, which it looks as if they're preparing to do en masse The ones that have done best are in a really soggy lawn.
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