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Post by Auricula on Jan 21, 2008 18:12:48 GMT
As today ( 3rd Monday in January ) is officially the most miserable day of the year ( apparently we are at our saddest because Xmas and New Yr frivolities have finished,the weather is miserable,our credit card statements have come through and we have broken our NY resolutions!!), it can only get better!! With this in mind - what garden tasks / projects are you looking forward to beginning? What does spring hold for you, gardenwise?  |
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Post by Amo on Jan 21, 2008 18:48:48 GMT
Finishing our terrace and pergola!!!! Can't wait. I have sleepless nights thinking of it.  |
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Post by Plocket on Jan 21, 2008 18:53:20 GMT
I don't know about tasks but I'm looking forward to having winter still - we need a bit of cold weather to kill off some of the bugs! Then I'm looking forward to spring and my beloved clematis starting to flower. I'm also looking forward to some lovely sunny weather so I can put my "new" (ie, so far unused) patio furniture out in the garden and enjoy it at long last. I got it in October!!! And seeing more of my clematis flower. Oh and pruning - I love pruning my clems ;D
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Post by Dutchy on Jan 21, 2008 18:59:03 GMT
Getting more structures done at MssK and then..... PLANTS what else  oh and Spring at some time but Winter is allowed a good show too should it finally make up its mind. |
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Post by Auricula on Jan 21, 2008 19:12:18 GMT
We never get proper winter here so we are always awash with bugs and weeds - they're just not killed off!!  |
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Post by Jardack on Jan 21, 2008 20:41:36 GMT
Seeing all my bulbs coming out in flower.
Sorting out the large bed now that I have a plan for it (albeit in my head)
The rain stopping....
Jardack
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2008 22:06:02 GMT
... the first time i will see my scottish bluebells flowering in our forest,
the 2nd year of the asparagus bed,
and the trees bursting into leaf,
quite like the wild garlic as well...
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Post by Rosefriend on Jan 22, 2008 5:33:22 GMT
I am looking forward to getting my hands dirty again - I haven't worked in the garden since November when we finished the garden for the winter, which we haven't had up to now ....only monsoon season as in the UK.
I planted loads of wild tulip bulbs in autumn and I am so looking forward to seeing them -. that is if they haven't rotted!! Then I can prune the roses, clems and start all my seeds and oooooo - heaven....
RF
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Post by borderbabe on Jan 22, 2008 10:27:34 GMT
Ordering my plug plants for the summer - and knowing once and for all that our allotment site is not to be built on! and whether we will ever get a long-promised water supply!
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Post by snowowl on Jan 22, 2008 11:20:03 GMT
Im hopping to get some raised beds made this year.
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Post by bagpuss on Jan 22, 2008 13:22:55 GMT
I would like a nice cold spell first (crisp, dry and bright).
Then seeing the bulbs come up (especially the bluebells), being able to really get cracking on the various seeds that need to be sown and seeing the different plants etc coming back to life.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2008 14:50:43 GMT
Can't wait to see if all the planting plans I made last year work out ;D ... cheers ...
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Post by Auricula on Jan 22, 2008 15:12:07 GMT
I'm in danger of overwhelming myself!! I haven't done much in the garden since October, due to family circumstances and persistant rain!!! However, I have many ( too many??!!) plans and don't know where to begin!!!! Meanwhile, everything is growing, is it too late to cut back and divide perennials? Can I move a 6' phormium which has become unstable with the wind? Will my garden ever look good again?? I'm looking forward to a DRY, warm spring - any hope??? |
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Post by Weeterrier on Jan 26, 2008 12:05:27 GMT
Not too late to do your perennials, and I often move things at the wrong time, so I'd do anything you want to do. Phormiums are pretty much brutes anyway. ;D I'm looking forward to an hour of no rain.  |
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Post by Auricula on Jan 26, 2008 14:59:24 GMT
We've actually seen the sun - hoorah!!!! |
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Post by andy on Jan 26, 2008 15:08:29 GMT
Looking forward to sitting out on the patio with the smell of night scented stock and barbeques filling the air....with a few mates round and a couple of cold beers.
But that's 6 months away so in the meantime, i'm looking forward to finnishing potting up my begonia tubers, sowing some petunia seeds and hopefully.....about 6 feet of snow so we can go and play down the park with the dog and the kids ;D
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2008 15:34:13 GMT
putting out the baby pansies & polyanthus still in the greenhouse because of the rain and SPRING
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Post by Chuckles on Jan 27, 2008 19:37:43 GMT
I'm looking forward to spending some quality time in the garden this year and my 2nd veg year. I'm ithching to see how the flower borders look this year after having a mad planting frenzie last year, I bunged in loads of stuff that I'd had in pots lurking about. Did I put them in the right place, Mmmm time will tell. Also looking forward to planting what I've grown from seed too.
Most of all I'm looking forward to seeing how my new project in the garden turns out, I'm hoping it will be completed within the next 4-5 weeks.
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Post by Weeterrier on Jan 27, 2008 23:40:49 GMT
Still looking forward to an hour of no rain. |
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Post by Ladygardener on Jan 28, 2008 13:44:55 GMT
looking forward to planting all my seeds and making a new flower bed and growing some veg for the first time this year......... oh it's all so exciting and I'm still trying to be patient ;D
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Post by Cheerypeabrain on Jan 28, 2008 15:25:00 GMT
I'm looking forward to re-jigging the garden again...we have decided to change the veg patch..I plan to grow veg I've never tried before this year, so I'm really looking forward to seeing how they turn out. In spring I'm always optimistic about the garden...and hopefully with the veggie bed re-hashed we'll have a more successful year ;D
I'm so longing to sit in the garden with a cuppa at breakfast time in the early summer, listening to the wren that has serenaded us for years now...(prolly a succession of wrens..)....perfick.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2008 2:42:47 GMT
Ive missed this one and not even looked at the replis yet, what im looking forward too is nice warm weather so im not cold at work and so i can get on at my lottie, and to get rid of this damn cold ive had before christmas its begining to bore me now.
Sorry think this should have gone on the whinge thread.
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Post by Essexgirl on Feb 6, 2008 11:29:18 GMT
I'm looking forward to finishing our new pond and re designed garden.We started it last May but it's been too wet to finish it.
Also looking forward to setting my potaoes up the allotment 'coz it brings me closer to my favourie job, digging them up again. ;D
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