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Thursday sees me and Fiona designing a fanlight window shape for the SH gable ends and taking it into Lampeter joiners for an initial quote.
Will happen by this weekend, got a few real world issues to deal with first off, but they will be happier soon! I discover the first Crocus seed capsules have popped up, and collect a couple, but also collect Anemone nemorosa seeds, still green and crumble off the knobbly seed heads, and scatter in new areas around the copse/meadow copse. Over the next 5 days these bags were repeatedly emptied and tossed on the big tarpaulins, and covered at night. Residents praised the centre’s Merlin’s Magic Compost facility and the fact that the centre is regularly beating its recycling targets, but expressed concern at potential round trips of 40 miles for residents if the centre closes. I always enjoy this work, now that in most areas of the garden it’s less onerous after many years of rigorous zero tolerance.Some sterile cultivars like “Thalia” seem to be flowering quite well, but many early forms have performed very poorly – eg “Topolino and “Tenby”. If we’d tackled this before Christmas, I’d have avoided so many leaves being blown off, which makes things look really tatty, and take ages to tidy up.
Fiona sands skirting boards for SH and I fix, then cut the remainder of the periphery of our upper hay meadow.As well as keeping a check on whether any need snowdrops need splitting and dividing, if plants show any signs of disease, they are removed and binned (not composted) asap.
SH), and predrill holes for the coach srews in the side and end panels, hoping I’ve got them in the right places! This is about the last time in the year when it’s feasible to do this for a while as Crocus tomassinianus are beginning to emerge, en masse.I do some more hedgerow work with the Stihl Li-ion chainsaw, cutting back side ways growing hazel rods, and also laying some along our stream boundary hedge fence. Late in the day, we realise that we can’t be too relaxed with some of the areas of Celandine in the lower meadow copse if we want to establish more delicate things like the Primula sieboldii – so I dig as deep as possible with the long handled de Wit weeding tool.