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Post by moonsmith on Jan 12, 2009 22:13:13 GMT 1
However much you enjoy gardening - init grand to sit back by the fire with a beer at this time of year and NOT garden. I reckon its the time when next years garden looks best - while its still in my head and the seed packet.
Here's to Spring but not just yet! I'm not done with Yule and the dark times.
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Post by glyn on Jan 12, 2009 23:16:01 GMT 1
This is the time of year for that definitely......... whilst flipping through ones seed catalogue!! !!!
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Post by evadarkness on Jan 15, 2009 15:03:36 GMT 1
Gardeners often talk about plants which provide architecture for the winter. Things like leaving hops on rose bushes, sea holly, etc.
In Canada where we can get ice storms looking out the window after all is calm again in the early evening when the street lights sparkle through ice like spider webs of light and everything looks like a Disney picture from Fantasia.
Here - One of the prettiest things is early morning with everything coated with the sparkle dusting of frost. One morning my 5 year old carefully carried home a frost painted leaf to put in a shady part of the garden so she could look at it's beauty for as long as possilbe.
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Post by Syrbal on Jan 17, 2009 1:47:33 GMT 1
I have got a bit of gardening to do soon: I've got to repot my oak tree whilst its still dormant. Oaks have long deep roots, so I've got to put it in a high pot for it to grow the next few years. I'm not into bonzai ;D
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Post by moonsmith on Jan 17, 2009 12:57:14 GMT 1
My second daughter moved into a flat with a small, walled concrete yard. She has made it bloom with pots and grow bags - veg everywhere.
I am containerising an Equinoctual pot for her. It is an 18 inch clay pot with a decorative Acer underplanted with snowdrops and daffodils. The Snowdrops are part of her life here in Shropshire and the Acer is the new. The equinoctual element is intended to remind her over the years of the power of the equinox as against the power of the solstice. To enjoy and use change.
Derek - if I am being presumptuous or patronising then I apologise. When you re-pot oak you need to keep the top of the root plate at the same level - if it is slightly exposed now, then re-pot it that way. In heavy soils you can kill a mature oak tree with just two inches of clay raised over its roots. This happened in Newport where I worked as a Horticultural officer for a while. It may go "Stag Headed for a couple of seasons and you will need to cut out the dead bits but that is it adjusting to the new conditions. I love the time scale on which oak works.
Go0d luck,
Pat.
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