Sunday, 19 February 2012

What a stonking winter day! While the lovely Jimbs was catching up on his sleep I rose relatively early and drank a cup of coffee while reading The Curious Gardener by Anna Pavord in the front garden. I was making the most of the weekend's absence of Builder to utilise the sunbeamy seats for my reading. Quite frankly I needed the help - even with a hat, huge jumper, coat and wellies on, my skin was smarting with the cold. A genuine winter day.
We then had a delicious breakfast where I happily prattled about garden related nonsense while The Jimbs smiled at me. He's eating Alpen rather than filled rolls for breakfast so as his weekend treat he had bacon croissants and coffee. I always breakfast at home on toasted something but today I had warmed pain au chocolat which is perfect.
We then wrapped up and went for a great long walk: along the canal, down the Water of Leith walkway, past the Saughton allotments and finishing (kind of) at Saughton Park. I also discovered an interest in bowling greens. Personally I was quite surprised by that because although I love these trad British representations they also choke me with their conformity. We added a bit onto our route and went a little further on the walkway and through some new builds and then up through Gorgie and home. Lovely walk on a lovely day with a lovely man. And his camera.
So back in my garden I attempted to divide my grasses. Apparently this should be done at this time of year while they are still dormant. I had a vague idea that I would source a narrow but deep-ish trough/squared pot for along the fence and re-plant the divided clumps in that. Given the boringly scant nature of my finances this is probably not the priority this year so I divided the clumps into the same pots. The first one went reasonably okay, but when turned out of the pot there was an utterly rank smell and slugs were slumbering in the roots. I made a executive decision that I am sure is all against the "proper" way of doing things, where I binned the stinky roots and their slugs. Anyway each of the 3 pots now has a newly divided clump of grasses in them. Which was my main focus for the weekend apart from lopping the trees. Which I didn't manage.

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