Freezing cold, not nice at all for gardening, and the rain keeps falling which is good for everyone except outside workers.
Got a nice surprise yesterday, my little Luculia has blossom buds! I had put a tree guard around it a few weeks ago to protect it from rost, and hadn`t really checked it closely since then. I will take a pic when the buds open. I decided that my strawberry pots could live on the brick BBQ rather than living on ground level, it might be easier to eliminate the ants that way although of course they will climb up. I`ll sprinkle ant granules around them.
Laid out the hose where i`m planning my new rose bed to be. It`s either kidney shaped or like a map of Australia, depending on if you have it with both ends equal or not.
I have about 52 roses and 4 more on order. Some will live in big pots sunken into the long flower bed, and some will be planted in the ground in the new bed. I`m planning to get a rotary hoe to dig up the lawn for that bed, then I`ll scoop out as much sand etc as I can ,and line it with plastic or newspaper to stop the lawn and weeds growing through. Then I`ll fill it with topsoil, compost, B&B, slow release rose fert, water crystals and anything else I can think of. Maybe sheep manure and dynamic lifter. in the spring I`ll give them all Sudden Impact.
I`v also got a plan for a hedge running from my little shed in a curve round the Jacaranda, lilac and Forsythia shrubs to meet the new rose bed. Probably will put Pittosporums along it as I`ve already got 4 James Stirling waiting in pots. Don`t want anything that`s going to take years to grow, I know most hedging plants do. It will make a nice screen to hide the compost bins, worm farms etc. That will be another job for the rotary hoe.