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01/01/2006
1st gardening activity of the year
Well, managed to do three simple tasks in/around the garden today.
Sowed some seed of the following:
Anthericum lilago - collected by my dad from his garden when we visited on Dec 30.
Helleborus 'Miss Jekyll's hybrids'
These both need a period in the warm for a few weeks, then cold for a couple of months, then warmer conditions. So will leave inside until mid-Feb, then outside in the cold to overcome dormancy.
Also, Cordyline australis - I managed to germinate a few of these in the summer, so this was just using up what's left of the packet.
I moved some plants my dad gave me in small pots into the greenhouse - Lathyrus aureus (a golden flowered plant of the sweet pea family, from the Taurus Mountains originally it seems. Only a couple of feet high. Also, he gave me some Allium hybrids (flavum crossed with some other A. species, possibly olympiacium or similar?)
I also hung a bee's nest that mum & dad gave me for christmas. It's a wooden box stuffed with hollow bamboo tubes, which bees, lacewings and ladybirds can over-winter in.
This blog wouldn't be complete without giving details of a seed order. The final one for this winter, from Kings
Artichoke (Green Globe), Beetroot (Crimson King), Pumpkin (Jack O'Lantern), Florence Fennel (Romanesco), Parsnip (White King), Runner Bean (Prizetaker), Sweetcorn (Kelvedon Glory), Eucalyptus gunnii (for flower arranging) and Festuca Glauca.
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