Tomatoes, eggplants & pepper plants waiting to be planted…they are constantly fed Fish emulsion & kept watered..those are small pots & growing roots take lots of moisture.
Seed for Zinnias and Foxgloves are sown ( late on the Zinnias) below
Then there are the onions to harvest….
So, on the way to do attend to all of the above, I pass …
Glorious Deutzia above, Clematis Ruutel and C. Piilu below
Below, another pairing, Clematis ‘Carnaby’ and Clematis ‘Odoriba’
I really like the two different forms of Clematis mingling, as they climb through Smoke bush ‘Royal Velvet’…. Below, Clematis ‘Catherine Clanwilliam’.
All in all, its very pleasant “GETTING THERE’ I designed it that way.
Last minute check of catalogues to make final decisions…. it’s the same routine every year…In January the descriptions, read by the fire, seduce us with their prose. We lust after so many varieties and make endless lists, finally the seeds on hand are checked and then we decide what will be ordered.
Dahlia, gets into the act…
My husband trims the list to a “reasonable” size …….15 types of tomatoes, three of each. Those are the beefsteak type. Then there are the Plum tomatoes the best known is probably Roma. I like the ‘San Marzano’ and ‘Amish Paste’. We should have a dozen or so plants of these….
and probably way more …. I have to remind him… we garden, not farm….