Bamboo

I managed to get the garden into a better shape. It’s miles away from finished, but take a first look.

Before:

I cannot say this enough, to whoever planted the bamboo in the neighbours’ garden, which grows its roots into ours, it was a really bad idea.
It took ages to remove the roots and it’s still not completely done.

There was also another surprise. I found a large amount of sneils. Eeeeh, I always forget about them and whenever I start to dig around the garden, the first few hours of seeing them are rather unpleasant. They started to climb up the pot walls….but I’ll spare you that

So I kept on digging

and weeding

As I was unearthing all sorts of bugs, a tiny bird showed up to take advantage of that

I also cut off the hydrangea:

and fixed the runner bean support net against the fence attaching it with cable ties to bamboo sticks that I had cut off while weeding.
You can almost not see the net.

So in 4 hours I managed to get the garden from this:

to this:

I hope you like the progress

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Hi everyone!

I have five hours of solid gardening work behind me. Yesterday my determination to clear up the garden for the summer suddenly took over! Once I got started, I could not stop. Now below are photos of my efforts.

As it turned out over recent weeks, some of the pots on the staircase had too many plants in them and the leaves were getting into each other’s way and sunshine. To address this, I bought two new pots and bamboo sticks to redistribute the plants. In half an hour I built two pyramid-shaped climbing structures. At the top I tied the bamboo sticks together with garden wire and covered this with cord for a nicer look. I then attached fishing wire to the bamboo to create a climbing grid for the sweet pea seedlings.

At the moment the seedlings look a bit miserable due to the re-potting.
The idea is that they should grow up the trellis in a triangular shape.

Next, I decided to make use of what plants we have in our garden, be it climbers growing through the fence from our neighbours’ garden or plants left by tenants that recently moved out from our house. To that effect, I attached a plastic grid to the wooden garden wall and started to guide a climber that grows through the fence, up this trellis.

I also provided a bamboo stick as support for a wild climber that has started to grow out of the soil.

It was also time to remove the faded tulips from their pot and to place them into a box so they dry and can be re-planted in November. For more information on what to do with tulips throughout the year, here is a link to my blog post on tulips.

As only very few of the Freesia bulbs I received for free from the Guardian Gardening Centre have sprouted, I added a plant from the staircase into the middle of this year’s low cost plant arrangement.

I checked on the tomato seedlings and my staircase project (part of separate blog posts), and to finish things off, I re-potted the lemon cypress, re-positioned the torch-light from last year and cleared up the floor. Job done, I was pretty tired, but hopefully you like the result : )