PLANS FOR SPRING

· Remove The Devil (aka Snowberry bush)
· Make a flowerbed against the Tuja hedge (which isn’t ideal but… where else can I have a flowerbed? Need to think about that one)
· Fix the raspberries from spreading too much
· Tidy up the gooseberry
· Building bathouses
· Building birdhouses, especially one for owls so please keep your fingers crossed.
· Build a compost
· Sow rhubarb
·Build a bird bath

Wee!! Soon it’s sowtime!

I have to get organize (ha, what a joke!) and see what I need, not buy too much since I don’t have that much room. I want spring and I want it now!! I really do need to sit down and draw a plan on how to make room for all the plants, even if half of all the seeds I have will grow it’s going to be tough.

(I had been stupid and put my poppy seeds in a plastic container, bad idea… mold. Thank god I have more than I can sow.)

First one out to be sown is my Wolfs Bane. Supposed to be soon in January. If he doesn’t grow I will buy a plant! (I have no idea where to plant it…)

I should have put gift certificate at the seed companies on my wishlist, stupid me…

Project

The Backyard is a horrible mess due to no planning what so ever and the horrible evil Snowberry bush (sound so cute but it’s really not). I found this adorable green tunnel, it’s in The Poison Garden at Alnwick Gardens (so want to go there) but I don’t have space or use for a tunnel but then it hit me. Why not make a little house/hut of it? A round little secret place just for me covered with ivy? I was thinking of having it in the Backyard and I hope that I’ll get some help in the spring to get rid of the Snowberry, build a compost box (well, actually three, or at least two), replant the raspberries and the gooseberries, make some space for my rhubarb and basically tidy the place up.

If this hut/house thing happens, it will be called, Kojan.

Picture found here.

Picture found here.

Just some random picture that I found and liked

Herbs surrounded by boxwood, photo by Debra Brash found picture here.

More boxwood, picture found here.

Soon it’s December

Which means, catalog time! It’s time to start looking for seeds! Even though I have loads of them at home already but… I might have missed a few good ones?

Wishlist (so far)
Sunflowers
Cornpoppy
English Marigold
Dahlia
Mallow
Cosmos/Mexican aster

Winter is the time for dreaming and planning

I want a “real” greenhouse; I keep telling myself that my dad is pretty crafty and should be able to build one which should make it cheaper, still pretty darn expensive and perhaps not the first priority.

Picture from Sweden Green House

Picture from Rexton

Turning off the radiator

Today I put my precious Amazon lilies (which I have named, I tend to do that with my potted plants, only two of the three lilies are named, Roberto Carlos, he’s the oldest and then Santiago Solari who’s a few years younger. If you know football you might see a pattern :p) and two pelargonium which I’m trying to store for the winter. The Amazon lilies need a cold period to bloom.

I turned down the radiator to one in my bedroom, it’s already pretty chili in my room and now I guess it will be cold. I should get a thermometer so I can see just how cold it gets. But if the pelargonim will live until spring and my lilies will bloom I’m okay with wearing hat and scarf indoors.