Garden News: Alive, alive-O!

[callmemadam]

Yesterday evening I watched Carol Klein’s Life in a Cottage Garden, the only programme I’ve wanted to watch all week. I had to leave the garden I’d toiled in for nearly thirty years and abandon my lovely plants to the unworthy inheritors, so I felt pretty jealous of Carol, still working at Glebe Cottage after thirty two years. Then, watching her strenuous activities and reminding myself that she's older than I am, I felt ashamed of my current sloth where the garden is concerned. It was weeks since I’d even looked inside the greenhouse, although considering the weather I think that’s forgivable. So this morning I braved it. I was thrilled to find that the cuttings of perennials, taken in late summer and left in an unheated greenhouse, have all survived, in spite of our -12 temperatures! They were tucked up inside a plastic propagator covered with fleece. Today they’re getting a breath of fresh air. There are several jobs I’d like to get done this month but I think it’s coming on to rain again now…

Comments

[gghost.livejournal.com]

That looks like a wonderful program. I only wish that it aired over here, too.

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

Who wouldn't like looking at a lovely garden in beautiful Devon countryside?

By a miracle, we had our first sunny afternoon for weeks and I actually did some gardening for a while! Meanwhile, my sister in Scotland had four inches of snow today. Our weather is weird.

BTW, you were writing about the British TV shows coming your way. I was glued to Downton Abbey but disappointed by Upstairs Downstairs. Nice to hear the old tune again, though.

[mimmimmim.livejournal.com]

It's good that the little plants have survived. I always feel horribly guilty if I let a plant die, as though I have failed it somehow. Are these cuttings of your lovely geraniums?

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I tucked them up again as it's very frosty this morning. The geraniums are in the house, on a windowsill over a radiator, where they are very happy. The outdoor ones are penstemons and a few others. Looking forward now to potting on all these babies.

I let a lot of plants in the greenhouse die last winter (forgot they still needed watering) and I did feel guilty about it.