Today my eldest boy wanted to play out in the back garden so off we went and whilst he rode his trike and scooter around, I decided that as I was there, I would weed the border, so now it looks wonderful. My first horticultural job of the year accomplished.
Our front garden is a small pea shingle affair with one fuchsia near the door. It is a resilient, hardy variety which gives beautiful red flowers. Today, as well as weeding the shingle and stepping in some deposit left by a cat, I separated the fuchsia and planted the other half at the other side of our bay window. The separating didn’t look too good. Rather than pulling up a mass of roots, I ended up with a torn-off lump of main stem root. Still, I planted it. I imagined the soil underneath to be, well, soil, but it is just dirty gravel, so I imported two large plant pots of home grown compost and some horse manure to make a decent organic medium-filled hole for the torn off fuchsia to be planted into. I will hold my breath and see what happens. Both plants need pruning though.
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