Rain and plants
After all the useful dry weather, we have had a spell of rain. It’s still possible to do Leylandii pruning when it’s been raining for a long time, but I will have to wait for the soil to dry off a bit before I do any more soil moving.
My plants from Buckingham Nurseries arrived.
New plants from Buckingham Nurseries
As there is a possibility of some colder weather in the next week, I decided to put some bubble wrap around their pots. I usually take a Spartan approach to plants, but they are only lickle and I don’t want any of them freezing to death before I’ve had a chance to plant them.
I am getting a little worried about the pond. Some more water got in, which wasn’t surprising after the very heavy rain, and the oily patches are back. I think yet more pond paint is washing off. I think I shall have to mop it up with newspapers and stuff it into charity bags to get rid of it, as I don’t want to pour any more onto the soil and I don’t want to carry buckets of it through the garden in case I spill it and stain the paving slabs. I readjusted the tarpaulin. It is very difficult to get it to stay in a tent shape because if there are any local minima in the structure, they fill up with water when it rains, and become even bigger minima as the weight of the water pulls them lower. I could do with a wooden frame to hold the tarpaulin in a tent shape. I could reuse the frame in autumn to keep the leaves out. That could be quite useful, but I need to design it so it doesn’t take up a lot of storage space.