Had another frustrating day. Weather was fine early on but didn't go out as was going to town with mum. By the time we got back it was the middle of a rainstorm. Was tempted by a pink climbing rose in sainsburys for only £2.99 but mum persuaded me out of it with promises of better things at the garden centre. Unfortunately we ran late and had to pick up my brother from the train station for five o'clock so never made it.
On a brighter side my next batch of seeds arrived. I've got some verbena which i intend to experiment with mum's heated propagator with, some white cosmos, gypsophila, pink and white field poppies, aprocot clarkia "apple blossom" and some blue ipomoea.
Talking about Ipomoea, mum bought me some purple and white stuff a few months ago which i've started to plant (and fell in love with because it grows so quickly :P) but for some reason i assumed it would be like petunais; lots of flowers and reasonably short, no taller than a foot or so... how wrong could i be? Took a closer look when i was ordering the blue stuff and read 'climbing plant, grows to 6'-12 feet'. woops. anyhow, hopefully i can get it to climb the hedge, dunno if its possible or not but roses do it....?
Trip to town wasn't worthless though, got some books out of the library including one on thrifty gardening, another with some good cottage garden ideas and this other one called 'How to grow practically anything' Its not very in depth but seems pretty perfect for a novice like me. I particularly like the idea of making a bee hotel out of a flowerpot filled with cut off bamboo cane. It also shows a method of sowing a wildflower meadow (unfortunately one that involves digging up the first few cm of soil bah humbug!), which is something i'd like to try with the orchard seeing as theres a relatively empty bit which is quite sunny and mostly grows with weeds. I'm sure the bit that says you should start in early autumn can be overlooked....
One thing at a time and i should probs finish the flower borders before i start any crazed schemes. If i leave it till next year perhaps? sadly that means i might miss the flowering as i'll be away at uni (hopefully), and might have to start august-september instewad of oct/nov, but we shall see :)
Tomorrow i have the joys of going boating avec ma famille dans le matin (and it'll probably rain) then a party at one of my friends houses in the evening, but hopefully in between (if the weathers not too bad) a bit of weeding or persuade mum to take me to the garden centre.
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